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An extensive overhaul of Montreal's Olympic Stadium building by local firm Provencher Roy has opened up the facade of the swooped tower to create offices "bathed in natural light". Read more View the full article

Provencher Roy and GLCRM Architectes have added a subterranean pavilion to the parliamentary home of the Canadian province Quebec. Read more View the full article

An early 20th-century pier in central Montreal is to receive an overhaul by local firm Provencher Roy, which will add a towering beacon and a public promenade (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Wire-encased lights are suspended above oak-topped counters at this bakery in Poland by designer Maciej Kurkowski (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Music: Spanish director Joan Guasch has used 3D mapping and animation to distort and transform images of a man and woman in Delorean's music video for Crystals (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: psychology is on an equal footing with technological advances when designing sportswear to improve an athlete’s performance, Nike‘s creative director for the Olympics Martin Lotti told the audience at a talk hosted by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs at the Nike+ House of Innovation at Selfridges last night. “It’s not just about lightweight,” he said. “It’s about looking good as well as the psychological element. We see performance on all levels: environmental performance, psychological performance, physical performance.” (more…) View the full article

Photographs of New York's latest hotel Public, designed by Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron, have emerged following its opening last week. Read more View the full article

Horny guests at New York's newly opened hotel Public are ruffling the feathers of neighbours by leaving the curtains open while they have sex. Read more View the full article

Milan 2012: British designer Lee Broom is showcasing furniture and lighting at an exhibition styled like a British public house at Ventura Lambrate in Milan this week. (more…) View the full article

An ancient archeological excavation determined the layout of this public library in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta by Madrid architects Paredes Pedrosa. (more...) View the full article

Product news: Yves Behar's San Francisco studio Fuseproject launches an office furniture system for American design brand Herman Miller at the Neocon trade fair in Chicago this week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Italian architects 3S Studio have converted a former railway tunnel between two north Italian towns into an enclosed pedestrian passageway. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Shane Davis has overhauled an industrial building in Brooklyn's Gowanus area into a spot that functions as a vegan cafe by day, and a bar and restaurant, complete with a nightclub, after dark. Read more

Public Works has built a water-heating system powered by compost that warms a bench at the Oslo Architecture Triennale to demonstrate the potential of the system. Read more

Public Works has created an installation focused on maid's rooms in Lebanon at the Sharjah Architecture Triennial to highlight the windowless servants quarters built in developments across the region. Read more View the full article

OMA present an archive of buildings designed by European local authority architects in the 1960s and 70s at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012, which opens to the public this week. (more…) View the full article

French architect Patrice Taravella and engineer Terry de Waal have completed a snaking tunnel to create the ideal conditions for growing lilies on a farm in the Western Cape of South Africa. (more…) View the full article

Dezeenwire: California architects Pugh + Scarpa have announced that the firm is to split - Architechnophilia </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects Lily Jencks and Nathanael Dorent have teamed up and fitted out a tile showroom in London to look like a psychedelic cartoon (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Designers Nendo of Japan have completed the interior of a showroom in Tokyo for sneaker brand Puma with shoes displayed on a series of timber staircases. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Sports brand Puma has unveiled its Puma Fi trainers, which have laces that can be tightened at the swipe of a finger. Read more

Danish bicycle company Biomega and design collective KiBiSi have collaborated to create this new bike for sports brand Puma. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Puma is introducing Design to Fade, a biodegradable sportswear collection, as part of the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

Black panels of corrugated iron clad the exterior of this lakeside wooden cabin in rural Victoria, Australia, by local firm Branch Studio Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Singaporean studio LOOK Architects has created a landscaped park and promenade overlooking a beach in north-east Singapore where 400 Chinese civilians were murdered during World War II (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article