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US firm In Situ Studio has clad this rural North Carolina cabin in darkened wood and set it far back from the road to protect it from view (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2015: Amsterdam studio Visser & Meijwaard has designed a range of colourful zip-up coffins to help make death less depressing. (more…) View the full article

Bold blocks of colour at ground level contrast with the white upper storeys of this school in Mallorca by Spanish architects RipollTizon (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Swedish furniture giant Ikea has recalled one of its most popular designs after toppling Malm dressers killed three toddlers in two years. (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen, Sagrada Familia was granted its first building permit, after 137 years of construction, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Hill House was encased in a protective chainmail. Read more

London studio NEON has built a structure with shingles that "shiver" and adapt in response to changing weather as part of a exhibition in Finland (+ movie). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

New York's Skyscraper Museum has released an online tool that tracks the growing number of skinny towers in the city. (more…) View the full article

Design Miami 2013: designer Simon Heijdens has created a series of hand-blown glass vessels that turn data from wind movement into projected patterns of light (+ slideshow + interview). (more...) View the full article

Architecture practice HW-Studio took cues from the steps and plazas found in traditional Spanish architecture to design this residence in central Mexico. Read more

In our latest competition, Dezeen is giving away a three-night stay at a boutique hotel in the Mexican jungle. Read more View the full article

Oslo designers Andersson & Voll paired a bright yellow moka pot with a cooking hob sculpted from a slab of marble for an exhibition of Norwegian design at the Design Tide Tokyo trade fair this weekend. (more…) View the full article

Brazilian studio Cupertino Arquitetura has renovated this mid-century apartment in São Paulo for the grandchild of its former owner, turning a pair of disused outdoor spaces into gardens in the process. Read more View the full article

London designer Klemens Schillinger modelled these concrete tabletop accessories on the shapes of ancient Greek and Mayan architecture (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Design Miami 2013: German architect Juergen Mayer H. is exhibiting a sculpture derived from the patterns used on the inside of envelopes to obscure personal information at Art Basel Miami Beach (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2016: Swiss studio Big-Game has added to the growing list of children's products launching in Milan with a miniature adjustable plastic chair (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Product news: this wooden sideboard by Mexican designer Hector Esrawe is intended to reference the way raw materials are stored in piles. (more...) View the full article

Our exclusive interview with Rem Koolhaas about his firm OMA's giant De Rotterdam complex features in Dezeen Mail issue 180, which also includes the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 180 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Seattle architecture firm Olson Kundig has unveiled a proposal for a museum dedicated to American musician Bob Dylan in Tulsa, close to a substantial archive of his belongings. Read more View the full article

A glass and weathered-steel box bridges a grassy hill and a terrace in this retreat for city dwellers, which US studio Slade Architecture has designed for an active organic farm in New York's Hudson Valley. Read more

Four23 Studio used a photograph of a toolbox as inspiration when designing its own workspace in London, which is finished with industrial materials. Read more View the full article

Massachusetts Institute of Technology has taken the number one spot as world's leading architecture school for the third year running, according to new global rankings. Read more View the full article

Music: inspired by her travels to Japan, Melbourne-based director Tessa Chong has depicted a "moving tapestry of city life" for Super Magic Hats' track Transpose (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Engineers from MIT have designed soft, 3D-printed structures that can transform their shape "almost instantaneously" with the wave of a magnet. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Music Project: we spent 2013 travelling to cities around the globe as part of our Dezeen and MINI World Tour. Here's a playlist of some of the new music we discovered along the way, which we've been using on the soundtracks to all our movies. (more...) View the full article

Next up in our alphabet of architects is Kengo Kuma, the Japanese architect who has completed two contemporary art centres in France this year - the timber-clad art college and music school in Besançon and the FRAC arts centre in Marseille with a chequered glass facade (pictured). See more architecture by Kengo Kuma » View the full article