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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

Australian firm Koichi Takada Architects has unveiled a slatted timber tower for Los Angeles, featuring a splayed bottom that draws on Marilyn Monroe's "flying skirt" moment. Read more

Brazilian studios MMBB and H+F Arquitetos reference tower blocks from the 1960s with this social housing complex flanking the Octávio Frias de Oliveira Bridge in São Paulo (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Following the popularity of a collection of mass-produced glass items reformed into sculptural vessels this week, we've collected together glassware projects from the pages of Dezeen, including a curvaceous wine bottle by Zaha Hadid and pill-like vases by Fabio Novembre. See our new Pinterest board » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See all our glassware stories View the full article

White concrete towers are reflected in a series of pools in Steven Holl's competition winning design for the Le Musée des Collectionneurs in Angers, France. Read more View the full article

Chicago firm Studio Gang Architects has completed a boathouse on the northern bank of the Chicago River with a rhythmic roofline intended to capture the alternating motions of a rower's arm movements (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Thatched bamboo roofs shelter a beach hut resort built by Vo Trong Nghia Architects on a small island off the Cat Ba Archipelago on Vietnam's northern coast. Read more

This week we published architecture for cats, the latest news from London Design Festival 2014 and continued our series on Brutalist buildings. Read on for more architecture and design highlights from the past seven days. (more...) View the full article

News: journalist Kieran Long has been appointed senior curator of contemporary architecture, design and digital at the V&A museum in London. (more…) View the full article

Italian architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas have completed a school for hotel management in Montepellier, France, clad in anodized aluminum triangles and punctured by 5000 unique triangular windows. (more…) View the full article

The organisers of the London Design Festival have scrapped plans for a designer crazy golf course in Trafalgar Square following the failure of its crowdfunding campaign. (more…) View the full article

London firm Acme has completed a shopping centre in Leeds, England, featuring a white latticed concrete facade and an interior modelled on old-fashioned arcades. Read more View the full article

This week’s job of the week is a position at Marcel Wanders for a graphic/pattern designer. See Dezeen Jobs for more roles in architecture and design. (more…) View the full article

News: a storage rail based on a traditional Shaker-style peg board, a scaly room divider and a magnetic lamp were revealed as the winners of the [D3] Contest for young designers at the imm cologne trade fair today. (more...) View the full article

Slovenian firm Studio 360 built walls of modular white shelving inside every room of this L-shaped apartment in Ljubljana to maximise space whilst removing clutter (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A rippled table and a crackled mirror feature in this new series of work by Brooklyn designer Fernando Mastrangelo. Read more

A grid of timber louvres screens either end of this house in Japan, which is the letter M in our daily A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about House M » View the full article

In April, Apple courted the design world by presenting the Apple Watch at a pavilion in Milan and holding a glamorous dinner for leading designers. So what do designers think of the product now – and why are so few of them wearing it? Dezeen investigates. (more…) View the full article

Brexit crisis: British architecture firms Make and Sheppard Robson are laying off staff, as Brexit starts to impact on the construction industry. (more…) View the full article

Contenders for this year's Beazley Designs of the Year awards include Diller Scofidio + Renfro's The Shed, a pocket-sized home HIV test kit, and the world's first genderless voice. Read more

Japanese studio Mattch has completed a family house in Nagoya with a sweeping facade that stretches out towards the corner of its plot (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: construction will begin next year on Africa's tallest building – a 540-metre-high skyscraper in Morocco. (more…) View the full article

New York architects Studio Cadena placed three white boxes inside this industrial loft in Brooklyn to make bedrooms for three flatmates. (more…) View the full article

Adidas and fashion designer Stella McCartney have revealed a new version of the Ultra Boost trainer that features an upper made from plastic recovered from the sea. Read more View the full article

Fifteen leading textile designers have created their own interpretation of Robin Day's iconic 675 chair, which will be auctioned in aid of the Robin and Lucienne Day Foundation. Read more