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Warmer weather is beckoning us outdoors so our latest Pinterest board features all the best courtyards from the pages of Dezeen. We’ve got over 10,000 followers on Pinterest now and you can follow us here. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » See more stories featuring courtyards on Dezeen » View the full article

Copenhagen-based research lab Space10 is to open a research and design lab next week, in the Dhan Mill gated compound in south Delhi that is home to emerging design studios, creatives and entrepreneurs. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Architecture practice BSA has created a "diverse spectrum" of workspaces within a disused warehouse in Saarland, Germany, as the office of ceramics company Villeroy & Boch. Read more

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for architects of all levels at the China office of Schmidt Hammer Lassen, which transformed an ageing Shanghai office block into a business incubator, featuring a translucent aluminium skin (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Continuing our review of the year, the restoration of the Cutty Sark tea clipper by Grimshaw was our most-read story in April, plus we set up Dezeen Studio in Milan. (more...) View the full article

Local architects Elliot + Elliot have completed a seaside residence that juts out over the rocky Maine shoreline (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Manhattan-based firm SHoP Architects has sent us a movie and more images illustrating its masterplan for Konza Techno City, a new "silicon" city 40 miles from Kenya's capital Nairobi (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Foster + Partners has completed its latest Apple Store in Miami with an undulating white concrete roof that draws on the city's art deco buildings. Read more

Milan 2013: British designers Industrial Facility will unveil these three-legged stools for Italian design brand Mattiazzi in Milan this week (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Our job of the week is a vacancy for a graphic designer at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners in London. The architectural practice's recent high-profile projects include the fabric walkway over the roof of the O2 Arena (pictured above) and the NEO Bankside apartment blocks by the River Thames. Visit the ad for full details or browse many other architecture and design job opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Twitter's headquarters in a 1937 San Francisco building features brightly coloured furniture, padded booths, games rooms and an enormous roof terrace (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News dominated this week as Shigeru Ban was awarded the Pritzker Prize, Facebook invested $2 billion in virtual reality, and Marc Newson described the design industry as "really pathetic". Read on for more architecture and design news from the past seven days, plus our Dezeen Music Project featured track. (more...) View the full article

Designers Frederik Nystrup-Larsen and Oliver Sundquist have created a series of knobbly concrete vases that looks like lava rocks, for the new home of prolific Copenhagen restaurant Noma. Read more View the full article

News: the latest attempt to shift the "nerdwear" reputation of Google Glass is a collection of headsets by Diane von Furstenberg that look more like traditional eyewear. (more...) View the full article

This modernist resort in Northern California, which formed an enclave for artists in the 1960s, has been overhauled by Los Angeles design studio The Novogratz. Read more

A pair of 450 metre-high towers with glass scales by Chicago firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture are the latest of fifteen skyscrapers commissioned for the Yongsan International Business District in Seoul, South Korea, following recently released designs by BIG and MVRDV. (more…) View the full article

News: the American Institute of Architects has announced 23 winners for the 2015 edition of its annual awards, including a visitor centre for the Wild Turkey Bourbon distillery, a cube-shaped courthouse and BIG's subterranean maritime museum in Denmark (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Turkish architects are creating line drawings of protest shelters and structures following the recent occupation of Istanbul's Gezi Park. (more...) View the full article

Multicoloured herringbone patterns cover sections of parquet flooring at these London apartments renovated by Alma-nac, which are used as guest suites for a record label (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese architect Masatoshi Hirai has refurbished an apartment in Tokyo, creating one shared bedroom, living space and wardrobe for its inhabitants (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dutch firm Wiel Arets Architects has completed a water-traffic control centre in the town of Maasbracht with a curved glass upper storey that offers panoramic views over the surrounding waterways (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese studio Nendo has dressed up these wooden tables for Walt Disney Japan to look like characters from children's story books Winnie-the-Pooh. (more...) View the full article

This concrete house in Tokyo by Japanese architect Hiroyuki Ito has a glazed stairwell that splits the building into two distinct halves. (more...) View the full article

News: architects Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger have revealed a prototype for the world’s first 3D-printed room. (more...) View the full article

Triendl und Fessler Architekten has completed an affordable home in an Austrian village, featuring a hole in its centre that provides residents with a secluded garden courtyard (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article