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Portuguese studio CVDB Arquitectos has created a tapestry museum with vaulted ceilings, marble walls and funnel-shaped skylights inside a twelfth-century hospital building (photos by Fernando Guerra + slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: a preservation order has been placed on Moscow's iconic Shukhov Radio Tower preventing its demolition, following a high-profile appeal by architects including Tadao Ando, Rem Koolhaas and Elizabeth Diller. (more...) View the full article

Japanese studio Schemata Architects has converted an old warehouse in Tokyo into a cafe and roastery for a Californian coffee company (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Polish design studio Beza Projekt has created a range of joints for DIY furniture that resemble plasters from a first-aid kit. (more...) View the full article

Zaha Hadid 1950-2016: next up in our exclusive video series, Richard Rogers reflects on the battle to select Zaha Hadid's design for the London Aquatics Centre, a building he describes as "a roaring success". (more…) View the full article

A team led by professor Xu Weiguo at the Tsinghua University School of Architecture in Beijing has 3D-printed a 26.3-metre-long concrete bridge, which they claim is the world's longest. Read more

Eleni Meladaki is an associate architect at London studio ACME. She explains her career progression and the difference between practising architecture in Greece and the UK for the Dezeen Jobs careers guide. Read more View the full article

News: a proposal by Rem Koolhaas' firm OMA for a bridge that could accommodate different types of traffic as well as pedestrians and events has been selected by local authorities in Bordeaux, France, as one of two final competing designs. (more...) View the full article

This two-storey house in Barcelona, renovated by local studio Nook Architects, features joined living and sleeping areas separated by stairs and mesh partitions (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architecture that embodies a country's values can help improve communication between feuding nations, says Jean Nouvel as the National Museum of Qatar opens in Doha. Read more

Italian designer Moreno Ratti has created a vase from rings of marble offcuts that are piled up like the pieces in a Tower of Hanoi mathematical puzzle. (more…) View the full article

US firm Dynia Architects has completed a home in the mountain town of Boulder, Colorado, where the main living spaces are separated with thick partitions of Corten steel. Read more View the full article

Portuguese architect Camilo Rebelo installed this wooden egg large enough for several people to hide inside beneath the vaulted ceilings of the Porto city hall atrium (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: electronics company Samsung has launched two smartphone models at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, including one with a display that curves at the edges (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Trails of smoke form an ever-changing black flag in this video footage, created by Irish artist John Gerrard to highlight the threat posed by increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere. Read more View the full article

Discarded cow intestines are given a new life in the intricate lighting installations of Danish designer Kathrine Barbro Bendixen. Read more

Apple has launched its first dedicated operating system for the iPad, making it easier to multitask, manage files and use Apple Pencil. Read more

This undulating course was designed by Canadian firm Kleinfeldt Mychajlowycz Architects to host BMX races during the 2015 Pan American Games (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

We've selected five of the best roles in architecture and design available on Dezeen Jobs this week, including roles with Büro Ole Scheeren, Heatherwick Studio and dRMM. Read more View the full article

Synthetic biology projects made it a weird week on Dezeen, as we featured new creatures that could save existing species and floors embedded with bacteria that could clean feet. Click through for more top content from the past seven days plus our Dezeen Music Project featured track. (more...) View the full article

Our most popular story this week featured a plant-covered house in Vietnam, so we’ve compiled a new Pinterest board featuring all plants, flowers and gardens from the pages of Dezeen. Over 20,000 people now follow us on Pinterest – join them here. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » See more stories featuring plants on Dezeen » View the full article

The consecutive pitched roofs of this church community centre in Germany were designed by Netzwerkarchitekten to make the building resemble a row of terraced houses. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Music Project: French artist Bertrand Lanthiez created this audiovisual installation by projecting white light along criss-crossing woollen threads (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: an exhibition at Design Miami/Basel will see seven designers and studios, including Jasper Morrison, Michael Anastassiades and the Bouroullec brothers, present household objects realised in Portuguese stone. Read more

Dutch studio TomDavid Architecten has won a competition to design a market square in Casablanca, Morocco, with plans for a canopy of leaf-like structures. (more…) View the full article