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Zaha Hadid's Library and Learning Centre at the Vienna University of Economics and Business opens today and this animation by London visualisation firm Neutral gives a tour of the building. (more...) View the full article

Portuguese architect João Branco has converted a small office building in Coimbra into a home by installing softwood joinery that functions as furniture, storage and partitions (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese firm International Royal Architecture (IRA) minimised partitions and balustrades inside this split-level house in Tokyo to make the interior feel as spacious as possible (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architecture firm Dialog has built a wooden pedestrian bridge, glass elevator and a tiny railway into a sloping terrain in Canada to leads from downtown Edmonton to the North Saskatchewan River Valley. Read more

P is for Peter Zumthor in today's A-Zdvent calendar window. The Swiss architect designed a Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London in 2011, and was also responsible for the Brother Klaus Field Chapel in Germany (pictured) and a memorial to commemorate suspected witches in Norway. See more architecture by Peter Zumthor » View the full article

Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of a book about the Golden Lion-winning Torre David project presented at last year's Venice Architecture Biennale. (more...) View the full article

Swedish designer Matti Klenell discusses the design of the new public spaces at Stockholm's Nationalmuseum during his lecture at the Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair 2019. Watch the livestream here from 9:00am UK time. Read more

Technology startup Edison Junior Design Laboratory has created a doorbell that allows users to see who's at their door remotely on their smartphone or tablet. (more...) View the full article

Today is Icelandic Independence Day and we're celebrating by revisiting some of the country's best architecture and design projects on Dezeen! Examples include a wooden cabin split into asymmetric apartments (pictured), and playground equipment made from rubbish washed up onto the shores of the island nation. See more Icelandic architecture and design » View the full article

This small wooden cabin by London-based architect Sini Kamppari perches among trees on a granite ridge, offering views of a lake in southeast Finland (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Inspired by a brutalist soap, we curated a Pinterest board of the best-designed grooming products, including 13 reinterpretations of the shaving brush and an aluminium straight razor aimed at millennials. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › View the full article

Overlapping angled fins clad in pre-rusted steel extend from the front of this crescent-shaped office building in Surat, India, by Mumbai architect Sanjay Puri (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Over 350 species of bird have made their home at this wetland centre, built by local firm X Architects on a former rubbish dump in the United Arab Emirates (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: Australian police have seized weapons created on a 3D printer while raiding a property in Gold Coast, Queensland. (more…) View the full article

Our next interactive slideshow features the most recent products by Nordic architects and designers for Danish brand Muuto. (more...) View the full article

Sliding barn-style doors inside this pared-back studio space and guesthouse by Seattle-based Shed Architecture and Design hint at the building's past life as a horse stable (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Bolivian architect Freddy Mamani is aiming to imbue culture, colour and personality into the "monochrome" city of El Alto, through buildings based on ancient local architecture and craft. Read more

Stockholm 2016: the top of this table by Swedish designer Alexander Lervik flips up when not in use, so its curved handle can be used for carrying or as a hook for hanging on the wall. (more…) View the full article

Heading to Miami next week? We've compiled a list of exhibitions to check out during the city's annual art week, alongside the major Art Basel and Design Miami events. Read more

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have demonstrated an experimental way of manufacturing cement that releases no carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Read more

News: Classical architect Quinlan Terry is one of a small number of architecture and design industry figures to be recognised in the 2015 New Year Honours list. (more…) View the full article

London design firm Studiomama is contributing an orange chair that has been remodelled from a discarded frame to the Stepney Green Design Collection curated by Dezeen. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2014: objects made out of lava from Mount Etna in Sicily will be presented by design duo Formafantasma in Milan next week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A chipboard shed and a herb garden occupy the top floor of this former factory in Tokyo that Schemata Architects has converted into a workshop for a kimono designer (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The next intake of architecture students at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia will be accommodated in modular student housing with stark concrete interiors (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article