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Internet shoppers in San Sebastian can now pick up their purchases from a shop that appears to be furnished with nothing but cardboard boxes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: a Chinese businessman who built a house covered by an artificial mountain on top of a 26-storey apartment block in Beijing has been told to remove it or face having it demolished. (more...) View the full article

Floor-to-ceiling grids of wooden shelves cover double-height walls inside this luxurious apartment in São Paulo by local studio Studio MK27 (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Japanese houses come in all shapes and sizes, but privacy is always a big concern. Here are 10 that offer their residents complete seclusion, from an angular concrete bunker to a seemingly windowless box. Read more

Ian Moore Architects has converted an old industrial building in Sydney to create Redfern Warehouse, combining a four bedroom house, an equine genetics laboratory and a garage for classic cars. Read more

Danish restaurant Noma commissioned Polyform Architects to create a landscape based on Nordic terroir to give pilgrims to the world's best restaurant a taste of what's inside, without disturbing diners (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

French designer Philippe Starck will be joined by architects Odile Decq, Lyndon Neri and Alison Brooks as Dezeen Awards 2019 judges. Read more

Following a preview of the nearly completed Pérez Art Museum in Miami this week, our eighth A-Zdvent calendar window features Swiss architecture duo Herzog & de Meuron. Here's a picture of their Vitrahaus showroom shaped like a pile of houses. See more architecture by Herzog & de Meuron » » View the full article

News: British architect Terry Farrell's firm is onboard to masterplan a £1 billion business hub in London's docklands for Chinese and Asian businesses. (more...) View the full article

A row of raw concrete gables give a zig-zagging profile to this summer house by Swedish studio Tham & Videgård Arkitekter on an island in the Stockholm archipelago (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week we've selected the five roles for visualisers on Dezeen Jobs, including vacancies at British architecture studios Caruso St John and Grimshaw. 3D visualiser at Caruso St John Caruso St John is seeking a 3D visualiser to work on client presentations and project reports at its London studio. The architecture firm designed Newport Street Gallery, an exhibition space for artist Damien Hirst in south London. Find out more about this role › CGI visualiser at Grimshaw Global architecture firm Grimshaw was behind the design of the Eden Project, an ecological park contained under geodesic domes in Cornwall. The practice has an opportunity for a CGI visualiser …

Dezeen promotion: architects and designers are invited to submit projects to this year's Iconic Awards, with winners being announced in a ceremony at Coop Himmelb(l)au's BMW Welt. Read more View the full article

Glossy green paint coats the bottom half of this bright white restaurant in Athens, which design studio AK-A has finished with deep red accents. Read more

Windows are hidden behind timber screens that fold back in all different directions at this family house in Israel by architect Pitsou Kedem (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: researchers at MIT Media Lab's Mediated Matter group have created a dome from silk fibres woven by a robotic arm, which was then finished by live silkworms (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

New photographs reveal that MAD's residential complex in California, designed to look like a village on top of a hill, has topped out. Read more View the full article

Scenic, improvised and dilapidated basketball courts around the world are documented in these photographs by Bill Bamberger, which form an exhibition at Washington DC's National Building Museum. Read more

Over the last few years Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion has been loaded with junk, and had its pools filled with coffee and milk. Now photographer Jordi Bernadó has taken the doors out and mounted them onto the facade. (more...) View the full article

Stephen Kenn Studio has transformed an apartment within a century-old factory building into an Airbnb-style rental, where guests can try out furniture designed by the Los Angeles firm and its partner brands. Read more

This renovated office in China by Vector Architects features plant-covered walls and a bright orange glass meeting room (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Plants will spill out between the overlapping wooden blocks that make up the facade of this hotel, which Kengo Kuma & Associates has unveiled for a site on the left bank of Paris' river Seine. Read more View the full article

Ill-Studio and Pigalle have returned to a basketball court they previously overhauled with bold patterns, replacing primary colours with gradients of blue, pink, purple and orange. Read more View the full article

Chilean studio Great Things to People (gt2P) has built a machine to generate pottery objects using an analog version of parametric design. (more...) View the full article

Our 10 must-see exhibitions opening around the world in 2015 include showcases of African architecture, Postmodern design and "definitive" bicycles. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2014: Japanese design studio Nendo has unveiled several new pieces to accompany the Peg armchair it produced last year for Italian brand Cappellini (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article