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MIA Design Studio has completed another project at the Naman Retreat in Vietnam: a series of holiday villas featuring rooftop pools that surround sunken lounges (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2015: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Louisa Zahareas' set of deformed tableware only appears normal when seen on screen (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dutch fashion house Viktor & Rolf has continued its "wearable art" theme with an haute-couture collection of sculptural white garments made from Cubist facial features. (more…) View the full article

Amsterdam studio Formafantasma designed a set inspired by the architectural elements in paintings by Italian artist Giotto di Bondone for Sportmax's Milan Fashion Week show (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The zigzagging roof of this orphanage in Haiti is independent of its walls, allowing breezes to permeate the building and offer relief from the hot climate, as well as providing earthquake resistance (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen: photo and video sharing app Snapchat transformed the way journalists and visitors explored the world's biggest architecture exhibition in Venice this week. (more…) View the full article

International font company Monotype has brought the London Tube's 100-year-old typeface into the 21st century, adding the hashtag, at sign and lighter weights more suitable for digital use (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

As the Fire Island Pines resort off New York's Long Island recovers from its annual summer party, architect and Pines Modern founder Christopher Rawlins has chosen 10 of his favourite Modernist retreats dotted among the dunes (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Graduate shows 2016: Bartlett student Matt Lucraft has proposed an evolving self-built housing co-operative based on a mishmash of English vernacular and historic Japanese architecture as a solution to London's housing crisis (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Büro Ole Scheeren, the National September 11 Memorial and Caruso St John Architects which is working on the restoration and expansion of Stockholm City Library (pictured). This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Hassell, Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects, Starck and more... (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: this year's Dutch Design Week will focus on makers and the creative process, and will include exhibitions, lectures, prize ceremonies, networking events and debates. Read more View the full article

Penda has set this auditorium for a Beijing art museum inside a wooden box, which features arched openings, and mirrors that reflect endless iterations of its curved cutaways. Read more View the full article

The original wooden doors and vaulted ceilings of this Valencian townhouse have been retained in renovation works carried out to improve its connection with a landscaped courtyard. Read more View the full article

Nike has worked alongside a team of athletes to develop a single-layer stretchy hijab that could "change the face of sport for Muslim girls". Read more View the full article

We're continuing our look back at Frank Lloyd Wright's most important projects, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the American architect's birth last week. Next is Unity Temple, the Prairie-style concrete church that he considered to be his first contribution to modern architecture. Read more View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a digital content and social media editor to join London's Serpentine Galleries, which commissioned architect Diébédo Francis Kéré to create this year's summer pavilion. More › View the full article

The mass-timber revolution is coming, says Clare Farrow, co-curator of the new London exhibition Timber Rising: Vertical Visions for the Cities of Tomorrow. Read more View the full article

London studio PearsonLloyd has unveiled an aeroplane seating concept that would give more space to passengers flying economy class. Read more View the full article

A staircase featuring a mirrored balustrade now leads up through this home in Montreal, renovated by local architect Jean-Maxime Labrecque. Read more View the full article

Tell us what you think about Dezeen! Take part in our audience survey and you could win one of three Urbanears speakers. Read more View the full article

After being diagnosed with Crohn's disease, designer Teddy Schuyers decided to focus on redesigning the ostomy bag that many sufferers have to wear to improve both their performance and appearance. Read more

Iranian-born British architect Farshid Moussavi has been selected ahead of Rem Koolhaas, Jeanne Gang and David Chipperfield to design an Ismaili cultural centre in Houston, Texas. Read more

WeWork parent The We Company has revealed plans to explore the design of cities of the future with a new initiative spearheaded by New York's Studio Dror and former Google executive Di-Ann Eisnor. Read more

Chilean architecture duo Pezo von Ellrichshausen has installed a mirrored structure within Milan's Palazzo Litta, creating disorientating reflections of its baroque architecture. Read more

Over 1,000 architecture and heritage experts have called on France's president to reconsider plans to rebuild Notre-Dame before the Olympic Games in 2024, saying the reconstruction should be carried out "without haste". Read more