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In this week's comments update, readers are having a whale of a time making puns about an underwater restaurant designed by Snøhetta. Read more

Matt Gibberd combined his passion for contemporary architecture with his editorial experience, to launch design-led estate agency The Modern House. He reveals how in this interview for the Dezeen Jobs careers guide. Read more

Zaha Hadid's 142-metre tower for French shipping company CMA CGM in Marseille is documented in these new images by London photographers Hufton + Crow (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Reflective stainless steel surfaces and a polished concrete floor brighten the interior of this extension to a terraced house in the Islington area of London by Architecture for London (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Brooklyn townhouses provide a blank canvas for creative renovations. US reporter Bridget Cogley selects eight diverse designs that include boldly coloured cabinets, pathways for cats and a huge slanted window. Read more

News: New York architect Daniel Libeskind has unveiled images of a timber-clad building to house physics researchers at Durham University in north-west England. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Ermenegildo Zegna has launched My Cesare, its first customisable sneaker collection "where the worlds of luxury and streetwear meet". Read more

Miami residents in the shadow of heavyweight construction cranes have been told to evacuate, as the structures could be toppled by the high winds anticipated to arrive with Hurricane Irma. Read more View the full article

Aiming to make this white apartment feel warmer, interior designer Maayan Zusman used wooden herringbone flooring and soft pastel furnishings (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Each facet that makes up the facade of this community building in Poland by OVO Grabczewscy Architekci is covered in a sheet of shiny ridged copper to create the impression of flames (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Pastel gradients spread up the walls of this languages school in Valencia by local design studio Masquespacio (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Flip phones, lipstick phones, mango phones – the announcement that Nokia may be reissuing the iconic 3310 mobile phone has the Dezeen team reminiscing about the handsets of years gone by. Read more View the full article

Milan 2014: Japanese designer Jun Murakoshi's tableware features patterned thread tops that create a geometric lattice for supporting flowers. (more...) View the full article

Opinion: the Brutalist architecture of 1960s British university campuses may not have been popular among students at the time, but it gave them space to protest. The trespa-clad towers of student housing that have sprung up since suggest a far more cynical approach, says Owen Hatherley. (more…) View the full article

Ties between fashion and the Catholic church are examined in an exhibition split across two venues of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Read more View the full article

Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati has developed a circular orange juice bar that turns the waste fruit peel into 3D-printed bioplastic cups to drink the contents from. Read more

Austrian studio Bernardo Bader Architects sourced pine and spruce from the surrounding slopes to build this picturesque chalet in a village of western Austria (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New York architect Toshiko Mori has renovated and extended a building originally designed by famed Modernist architect Marcel Breuer as a personal residence, connecting two structures with a glass-enclosed staircase (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Building regulations are stifling architects according to developer Roger Zogolovitch, who has declared support for ideas proposed by Patrik Schumacher in his controversial World Architecture Festival speech. Read more View the full article

Architect Carles Enrich converted an old laundry space in Barcelona into an apartment that has a bookshelf merged with the staircase (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London-based Aseptic Studio has designed an ergonomic cushion in the shape of a headless torso to provide physical and emotional support for lonely millennials living in cities. Read more View the full article

Our US job of the week on the new and improved Dezeen Jobs website is for a designer/architect at Machado Silvetti in Boston, which has completed a gallery extension clad in over 3,000 ceramic tiles (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Austrian design firm EOOS and water research institute Eawag hope to improve sanitation levels in areas of extreme poverty with a mobile toilet that contains its own water filtration system (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

In this competition, Dezeen is giving away a Sonos smart speaker that plays, pauses and changes music in response to voice commands. Read more View the full article

Japanese designer Reiichi Ikeda has built a wire mesh box in the middle of a fashion boutique in Osaka. (more…) View the full article