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Amazon has cancelled its plans to bring its HQ2 headquarters to New York's Long Island City, following a major backlash from local politicians. Read more

World Architecture Festival 2012: Heart of Doha, a 31-hectare masterplan designed by AECOM for the gateway to Inner Doha has been named Future Project of the Year at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore. (more…) View the full article

It’s coming up to Dezeen’s sixth birthday and this week we’ve published our 10,000th story as well as our 100,000th reader comment! We’ve also gained our 200,000th Facebook follower, 100,000th Twitter follower and 40,000th Pinterest follower. Thanks to all our readers! View the full article

Anne-Laure Dubois has renovated a family apartment in Paris, using dark blue tiles and pale poplar plywood to offset the existing wooden flooring. Read more View the full article

Pentagram has redesigned Yahoo's logo and branding to give the search engine a "bold and confident" identity for the 21st century. Read more

Five years ago this week woven materials and netting featured heavily in architecture and design, as Thomas Heatherwick completed an undulating facade of woven steel around the entrance to a London hospital (above) and graduate designer Sarah Moucher presented a light made from removable ceramic links (below). (more…) View the full article

Here's a full set of images from this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2015: Scandinavian studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has designed a modular sofa system for public spaces that allows sitters to recharge their phones and laptops while resting their legs. (more…) View the full article

In this movie produced by Dezeen for Made.com, Simone Gerbino explains how his design for a hat-inspired lamp was shortlisted for TalentLab, the brand's platform for emerging designers. Read more View the full article

Canadian firm 5468796 has created an angular residence with light interiors concealed within a dark-coloured exterior. Read more View the full article

Dutch designer Dik Scheepers has created a cabinet made of oak and translucent corrugated PVC. (more...) View the full article

Home rental website Airbnb has opened an office in Dublin with a reception area modelled on an Irish pub designed by local architects Heneghan Peng (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architect Greg Dutton has designed this treehouse-like, off-grid retreat on his family's property in rural Ohio to be sustainable and in sync with the surrounding environment. Read more

This house in Nagahama, Japan, by Tokyo-based Comma Design Office has half of its body raised above the ground to offer protection to a rooftop terrace (+ 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

A contemporary house inserted behind the crumbling walls of a ruined twelfth-century castle in Warwickshire, England, by Witherford Watson Mann is one of the six projects nominated for the 2013 Stirling Prize (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A team of Canadian designers and artists has created an installation in Montreal consisting of 30 illuminated seesaws. (more…) View the full article

This wooden stool designed for Bosnian brand Zanat by Swedish architects office Wingårdhs has been "tattooed" with hand-chiselled carvings. (more…) View the full article

Following our interview with Ström Architects about the value of photo-realistic visualisations, the firm sent us a set of images by rendering guru Peter Guthrie showing a house proposed for Suffolk, England (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Tel Aviv studio AndreyAndShay has created a collection of brushes in bold primary colours by melding sections of the bristles together to form handles. (more...) View the full article

This retirement residence by Schwartz and Architecture features a sheltered patio with a large oval skylight, which frames views over Silicon Valley, California (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Iran's largest pedestrian bridge, a pink rubberised park by BIG and Zaha Hadid's first building in Lebanon are among the six winners of this year's $1 million Aga Khan Award for Architecture (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Competition: we're offering readers the chance to win sets of Bookman bicycle lights in two new colours. (more...) View the full article

British artist Jeremy Hutchison will open a pop-up shop selling completely useless objects at a London gallery this December. (more…) View the full article

Female faces peer out from a pink-hued wall mural that features inside this bar, which Bryan O'Sullivan Studio has created in west London hotel The Berkeley. Read more