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A team of architects including Belgian studio JDS Architects and Danish firm CEBRA are close to completing this harbour-side housing development modelled on a cluster of floating icebergs in Denmark (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Tod Williams and Billie Tsien's major extension and renovation of postmodern architect Charles Moore's Hood Museum of Art, in New Hampshire, will involve slotting in a pale brick building and covering a central courtyard. Read more View the full article

Dutch designer Ineke Hans has created an armchair and a footrest for Belgian design label Moome, which she hopes will provide the same level of comfort as a beanbag. (more…) View the full article

Foster + Partners drew inspiration from Bedouin tents to create a canopy of domes over a new airport terminal that opened yesterday in Amman, Jordan (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The artist Banksy has opened an "all-inclusive vandals resort" in Bethlehem, five metres from the wall that separates Israel from the Palestinian West Bank. Read more View the full article

Vo Trong Nghia Architects has completed a series of six triangular concrete pavilions connected by a low block of office spaces for Vietnamese telecommunications group Viettel. Read more

Big pine shingles cover the curving walls of this woodland trail centre by Swedish architecture firm Tengbom, designed to mimic the form and texture of a pine cone (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: John Pawson has become the latest designer of a holiday home for Alain de Botton's Living Architecture project with his proposal for a black brick lodge in the Welsh countryside (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

If you’re a fan of retro keyboard sounds, you’ll love this track by Monster Bobby. A1 Autoroute du Nord is a driving, pulsing track with a definite nod to 1980s synth-pop. It also reminds us of some of the excellent 80s-inspired music on the soundtrack to last year’s Nicolas Winding Refn movie, Drive. About Dezeen Music Project | More tracks | Submit your track View the full article

British artist David Shrigley and London mayor Sadiq Khan have launched a series of artist-designed posters for London's Tube, which declare that the city "will not cut itself off from the rest of the world" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Moveable library-style shelving units slide from side to side to reveal and hide compartments that serve various functions in this Spanish apartment by Madrid-based PKMN Architectures (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Swiss designer Florian Hauswirth has designed a collection of bedroom furniture including an ash shelving unit with components made by a bookbinder. (more...) View the full article

Adobe employees can play basketball and ping pong inside the software company's new mural-covered Utah campus by San Francisco-based designers Rapt Studio (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

These cabinets by Swedish designer Mathieu Gustafsson and furniture maker Niklas Karlsson are inspired by the use of woven rattan and brass clasps in vintage handbags. (more...) View the full article

Today is the beginning of Eid al-Fitr, a holiday marking the end of the month-long Ramadan fasting period for Muslims. To celebrate, we're revisiting some of the best contemporary mosque designs from around the world, including Emre Arolat's "cave-like" prayer hall near Istanbul and Amanda Levete's proposal for the World Trade Center Abu Dhabi development (pictured). See more mosque design » View the full article

US firm TBD Architecture + Design Studio has created a studio building for a Hamptons couple that consists of two intersecting volumes clad in different materials (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen, "blood boiled" over architecture studios's use of unpaid interns, and Jean Nouvel's National Museum of Qatar opened in Doha. Read more

A glazed reading room appears to float over the still waters of a shallow pool at this town library in Maranello, Italy, by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki and Italian architect Andrea Maffei (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This house in Belgium by Ghent studio Graux & Baeyens Architecten is broken down into cubic volumes that are staggered to let more light into each room (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

San Francisco firm Schwartz and Architecture has overhauled a single-family home on a steep and narrow site, lifting the existing building to add a storey beneath it, and creating an extension at the back over three levels. Read more View the full article

Hudson Architects has transformed a heritage-listed building in eastern England into an architecture school, featuring a staircase that references an ornately patterned original balustrade (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Sloping meadows and woodland thickets are all that surrounds this boxy concrete house in the mountains of western Austria by local studio OLKRÜF (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for an interior designer/architect with Gundry & Ducker in London, whose projects include the award-winning Dove House extension (shown above). See more stories about Gundry & Ducker on Dezeen here. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs here. View the full article

Graphic designer Anthony Burrill and architect Eugeni Bach worked with students in Barcelona to build 3KMS, a rooftop pavilion decorated with MDF panels. Read more

London-based design duo Raw Edges arranged hundreds of fabric ribbons around the edge of their display stand for Danish textile manufacturer Kvadrat at this year's Stockholm Design Week. (more...) View the full article