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News: British firm Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has unveiled plans to slot a glazed extension over the brutalist concrete architecture of Southbank Centre in London. (more...) View the full article

Slabs of travertine in two different shades create horizontal stripes across the facade of this house in Melbourne by b.e. Architecture (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

An opaque box appears to balance over see-through walls of glass and perforated steel at this house and pet shop in Saitama, Japan, by architecture studio N Maeda Atelier (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Dutch firm OMA has won a competition to design a pair of skyscrapers in Stockholm, Sweden, with a proposal featuring staggered facades. (more...) View the full article

News: a research team in Zürich has created a flock of helicopter robots that can detect each others' positions and join together to create a larger flying machine. (more...) View the full article

News: architect Rafael Viñoly has admitted he knew the facade of his curvy Walkie Talkie skyscraper in London would focus an intense beam of sunlight onto a neighbouring street, but says that he "didn't realise it was going to be so hot". (more...) View the full article

Balconies covered in tropical plants and contoured surfaces based on rock formations surround this Singapore hotel by WOHA, which topped the hotels category at the Inside Festival awards last week. (more...) View the full article

A giant chess set and a hot-dog-shaped rocking horse are on show at a retrospective of work by Spanish designer Jaime Hayón at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands (+ slideshow + interview). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: design show designjunction and online retailer Clippings.com have teamed up to bring a Christmas pop-up shop to London's Covent Garden. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in this movie filmed at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, artist Gijs van Bon shows us his machine called Skryf, which deposits a trail of sand behind it to form letters on the ground. (more...) View the full article

Israeli designer Dor Tal has designed a set of gadgets that monitor data generated on social networks to help users predict the future and take action ahead of time (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

London designer Paul Cocksedge has launched a set of circular bike lights on Kickstarter that can be locked to a bicycle by slotting them over a standard lock (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Designs of the Year category winners were announced this week and Dezeen is media partner for the awards, so we've collected together all the nominees and winners from our pages and pinned them to a dedicated Pinterest board. See our new Pinterest board » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » View the full article

Dezeen Music Project: an animated unicorn and various other characters shimmy and shake along to Basement Jaxx's latest track in this music video by director Tomek Ducki. (more...) View the full article

Artist James Bridle has teamed up with architecture studio TDO to build a rooftop hangar on a south London car park, from which a military surveillance balloon makes a daily flight to snoop on the area (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Following our special feature on skinny houses, we've put together a collection of some of the best examples of slimline residences from the pages of Dezeen. (more...) View the full article

This rural Argentinian home by Luciano Kruk Arquitectos was built from intersecting slabs of timber-imprinted concrete and sheets of glass (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A grid of muted copper frames the large windows of this slender office building, designed by British architect David Chipperfield for a park-side site in Hangzhou, China (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Australian studio Mihaly Slocombe has returned to a Melbourne home it completed almost a decade ago to add a timber nursery annex patterned with circular cutouts (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2015: photography and product design students at Swiss university ÉCAL have paired up to create interactive objects and installations that investigate the selfie phenomenon (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Canadian studio Y2H has completed a series of cabin-inspired homes for a woodland development between the shores of Lake Superior and the Mont-Tremblant ski resort in Quebec (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Canadian cedar shingles and slats cover the gables of this community centre and scout hut, which sit behind a concrete wall on the edge of Copenhagen's Søndermarken park (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects has completed a wedge-shaped residential building for students and faculty on a sloped urban site in Los Angeles (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Irish footwear designer Sandra Plantos has created a collection of shoes that are too heavy to walk in (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with StudioSmall to give away five copies of a book documenting a decade of graphics for British fashion designer Margaret Howell using typefaces by designer Eric Gill (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article