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News: Foster + Partners has released photographs of its new Apple store in Hangzhou – one of five new shops that the company is opening in China ahead of Chinese New Year (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Ornamental doors and windows sit within recesses that appear to have been carved away from the coarse granite walls of this mausoleum in Minneapolis by American architecture firm HGA (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: the rising cost of property in city centres is causing the "biggest crisis" facing architects and urbanists, according to critic Joseph Rykwert, the recipient of this year's RIBA Royal Gold Medal (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: British designer Bethan Gray will exhibit a set of monochrome marble tableware in Milan next month. (more...) View the full article

News: Dutch firm MVRDV has won a contest to overhaul a 58-hectare steel factory in Moscow, described as "a stronghold during the Russian revolution", to create a major new city quarter offering homes, offices, schools and a hospital (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The Bradley - a watch originally designed for blind people - is now exclusively on sale at Dezeen Watch Store during the month of June. (more...) View the full article

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Tom Dixon, Lee Broom and Erick van Egeraat, whose mixed-use block in Hamburg with a facade that parts like a pair of curtains is pictured. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with The Manser Practice, Serie Architects, Adjaye Associates and more... (more...) View the full article

News: a shopping centre that replaced an iconic Brutalist car park and a controversial tower beside the River Thames are among the six projects on the Carbuncle Cup 2014 shortlist for the UK's worst new building. (more...) View the full article

News: the city of Almere in the Netherlands has selected a small curvy chapel designed by architect René van Zuuk to be constructed over the surface of the Weerwater lake. (more...) View the full article

Dormer windows rise above the red brick facade of the only modern building on a historic Utrecht street, designed by local office Dreessen Willemse Architecten to house a shop and student residences (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Google has updated its prototype self-driving vehicle to make it road worthy, adding headlights, a steering wheel and a brake pedal to comply with road rules in California. (more…) View the full article

This concert hall in Poland by Spanish studio Barozzi Veiga features ribbed glass cladding and a spiky roof, giving it the appearance of an icy crown (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in the second part of our video interview with Ammar Mirjan, the architect explains how he is using drones attached to cable dispensers to quickly build lightweight architectural structures. (more…) View the full article

This week we reported on Patrik Schumacher's rant against critics, proposals by Snohetta (pictured) and SANAA for a new Budapest museum, and all the highlights from Milan's annual design week. Read on to catch up with the latest architecture and design news. (more…) View the full article

Brooklyn ceramics studio Object and Totem has launched a wearable ring-shaped vessel, based on a circular 19th-century flask (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Wooden boxes surrounding the tables of this noodle bar in the Chinese city of Shenzhen frame views of the city skyline, which is visible through a full-height glazed wall. (more…) View the full article

Taiwanese studio HAO Design installed a play area in the kitchen of this family home so the children could spend more time with their parents. (more…) View the full article

Japanese fashion house Issey Miyake has created undulations across clothing in its Spring Summer 2016 collection by baking it in an oven (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

A cross-laminated timber roof covers this six-lane swimming pool, which London firm Hawkins\Brown plans to add to a school in Surrey (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Layers of compacted earth form walls for this house by architecture studio Blaanc, which is set in the middle of a vineyard in Portugal's Montijo municipality (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A glass wall frames a vintage Mercedes parked inside this timber-clad residence in the Bulgarian capital by I/O Architects, which is partially submerged into a sloping site (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our US job of the week on the new and improved Dezeen Jobs website is for a business development officer at OMA in its New York studio. The firm used translucent scrim to create a "ghost cathedral" for The Met's Manus x Machina exhibition (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

London Festival of Architecture 2016: 60 years after John Leslie Martin completed the Fitzhugh Estate in London, photographer Sharon O'Neill visited to see if the project lived up to its promises (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London fashion store Hostem has launched its first guesthouse – a refurbished Georgian house with furniture from Pierre Jeanneret, Faye Toogood and Max Lamb, and accessories that guests can buy (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Claw-like forks and spoons with extra bowls are among a collection of nonsensical cutlery commissioned by Amsterdam design studio Steinbeisser (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article