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These seven woodland cabins are nestled amongst the trees of a park and spa in northern Portugal (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen and Strelka Press have teamed up to give readers the opportunity to win new ebooks featuring critical writing on architecture and design by authors including Sam Jacob, Justin McGuirk and Alexandra Lange. (more…) View the full article

Our job of the week is a position in Hong Kong for a design manager at Starbucks Coffee Company, who in the past have commissioned well-known architects and designers such as Kengo Kuma and Nendo to design branches like this one in Japan (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse many other architecture and design job opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Design Miami: inspired by Gaudí’s ingenious method to create the perfect curve, Anglo-Dutch design duo Glithero have hung loops of beaded chain over a shallow pool of water in an installation for champagne house Perrier-Jouët (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A refurbished nineteenth century Italian house with tiles arranged in honeycomb patterns across the floor is the latest instalment from our A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about Casa G+S » View the full article

Slideshow feature: following the news that Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer has died aged 104, here’s a look back at some of his best-known projects from around São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, documented by Brazilian photographer Pedro Kok. (more…) View the full article

News: a concept for rooftop housing built from foam blocks and steel cables (above) is one of the winners of the RIBA President’s Medals Student Awards, announced last night. (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win one of three copies of the first limited-edition It’s Nice That Annual. (more…) View the full article

The top story in the latest issue of Dezeen Mail is the news that Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, designer of the Cathedral of Brasília (above), has passed away aged 104. The newsletter also features all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Above: photograph courtesy of Shutterstock Read Dezeen Mail issue 130 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Architect and writer Sam Jacob takes the audience at Dezeen Live on a rapid-fire journey from a prehistoric standing stone to the Argos catalogue and USB cigarettes in this interview filmed at 100% Design during the London Design Festival. (more…) View the full article

Design Miami: a hanging cabinet covered in leather tassels and a hammock inspired by pasta ribbons are among the objects created by designers including Fernando and Humberto Campana and Atelier Oï for French fashion house Louis Vuitton (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: architect Norman Foster has paid tribute to Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who passed away yesterday aged 104. (more…) View the full article

Our Dezeen Watch Store Christmas pop-up at Tracey Neuls’ east London store at 73 Redchurch Street will be keeping it’s doors open until 9pm tonight, where you can treat yourself to an early Christmas present with 20% off a selection of our designer watches and Neuls’ range of hand-made shoes. (more…) View the full article

News: Apple’s senior vice president of industrial design Jonathan Ive has given his support to the growing campaign against the UK government’s plans to remove design and other creative subjects from the school curriculum. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: designer David Oxley has launched a slender, adjustable LED task lamp on crowd-funding website Kickstarter. (more…) View the full article

News: Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer has died in Rio de Janeiro aged 104. (more…) View the full article

A 30-metre-long felled poplar tree protrudes either side of this kiosk by Swedish studio Visiondivision to support a row of playground swings at a country park in Indianapolis (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

It’s day six in our countdown of houses named after letters of the alphabet and today’s featured project is a residence in Japan with a courtyard that sits at an oblique angle to the rest of the building. Read more about F-White » View the full article

Product news: ten metres of electrical cord are coiled around to form the shade of this pendant lamp by Italian designer Nicolò Barlera. (more…) View the full article

Zaha Hadid Architects has designed a swirling complex of apartments, offices and leisure facilities on the abandoned site of an old textile factory in Belgrade, Serbia (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Design Miami: Dezeen is in Miami Beach this week for Design Miami 2012, which opens to the public today and runs until 9 December. See our photos from the press day on Facebook or see all our stories about this year’s edition of the design fair, including artist and architect Vito Acconci’s plans for a playground in the Miami Design District after receiving the Designer of the Year Award. Above image: Glithero’s installation for Perrier-Jouët at Design Miami View the full article

News: over 150 UK designers, brands and organisations have joined a campaign to get the government to rethink plans to remove design and other creative subjects from the school curriculum. (more…) View the full article

News: Amsterdam’s problem families are to be moved to isolated caravans or shipping containers in the outskirts of the city under new plans announced by mayor Eberhard van der Laan. (more…) View the full article

The Eiffel Tower is reimagined as a bronze table lamp by Belgian artists Studio Job, who also present an upside-down Taj Mahal table at Design Miami this week. (more…) View the full article

Product news: items of furniture in this collection by Daisuke Motogi Architecture are shaped so that they can still be used when flipped upside-down (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article