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Lacime Architects based the layout of Shimao Longyin Leisure Centre, in China, around a series of classical Chinese gardens to create serene outdoor circulation areas. Read more

In our latest competition, we've teamed up with The Distillery hotel in London to offer readers the chance to win a two-night stay and a meal for two, as well as the chance to make their own gin. Read more

Architecture firm BIG has unveiled a proposal to overhaul a portion of New York City's Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, known as the BQE, with a public park that covers a subterranean roadway. Read more

All eyes should be on China in the race to develop smart cities, says architect Carlo Ratti, who is co-curating this year's Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture in Shenzhen. Read more

A giant ombre wall divider that rotates to create a mirrored surface features in a new collection based on circular forms that marks the fifth anniversary of Brussels' Maniera gallery. Read more

The latest Dezeen competition offers readers the chance to win a Capas rug designed by Mathias Hahn for Nanimarquina. Read more

Foster + Partners has unveiled plans to build a timber boathouse on Manhattan's Harlem River for a non-profit that teaches local teens to row. Read more

Architects Eduard Balcells, Ignasi Rius and Daniel Tigges have designed a wood-clad concrete kindergarten for the El Tiller Waldorf-Steiner School in Bellaterra, Spain. Read more

A glazed terminal building at Marseille Provence Airport designed by Foster + Partners has come under fire from France's environmental authorities over fears it could hinder France's target to be carbon-neutral by 2050. Read more

Industrial design studio PriestmanGoode swaps single-use plastic for ground coffee beans and rice husk in its overhaul of throwaway cabin service goods from meal trays to toiletries. Read more

Breaking news: Design Museum co-directors Deyan Sudjic and Alice Black are leaving their posts at the London museum. A successor has been lined up but not named, Dezeen understands. Read more

The walls of this Mexico City pavilion by local architect Gerardo Broissin are made from concrete panels pieced together like a jigsaw puzzle. Read more 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

This exhibition of works by architects and artists installed at Rudolph Schindler's house in West Hollywood, California takes the fraught relationship between the architect and his wife as its theme. Read more View the full article

In our latest competition, we've teamed up with Blenheim Forge in London to offer our readers the chance to design their own hand-crafted cooking knife. Read more View the full article

We continue our high-tech architecture series with this exclusive video interview in which British architect Nicholas Grimshaw describes the painstaking level of detail required of his landmark station project. Read more View the full article

Multidisciplinary group Wevolve Labs modelled its pavilion for last year's Burning Man on a bird-like dinosaur, with large wings that lit up at night and shaded seats underneath. Read more View the full article

Alberto Bologna spotlights 10 key buildings from his book Chinese Brutalism Today, which examines the enduring trend of concrete architecture in China. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: the Squar tile collection by Italian designer Giovanni Barbieri features three-dimensional elements to bring a relief-effect to walls. Read more View the full article

In the first lecture from today's collaboration with Architects, not Architecture, Norwegian architect Reiulf Ramstad discusses his background and how he originally wanted to become a dancer, not an architect. Read more View the full article

Architect Tsuyoshi Kawata of Japanese studio Tonoma has completed a house in Hyōgo, Japan, that’s divided in two by a narrow strip of garden. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The week on Dezeen, graffiti artist Banksy sketched a memorial to slavery, architects and designers created a public Google Doc to promote black-owned studios and Michael Ford warned architects away from designing prisons. Read more View the full article

Photographer Fernando Guerra has sent us his photographs of an office building for technology companies in Almada, Portugal, by architects Samuel Ruiz Torres de Carvalho and Pedro Palmero Cabezas. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Eindhoven designer Nacho Carbonell built himself a giant iron nest for Design Miami/Basel this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Logan MacDougall Pope has sent us his images of this lakeside retreat in Sri Lanka made using a stray shipping container and timber from weapon boxes. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article