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Lucy McRae's short film The Institute of Isolation is a fictional examination of the ways travellers to outer space could use architecture and design to train their bodies for the challenge (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

An expansive terrace provides a meditation space at this weekend residence and spiritual retreat in the Utah desert, which US firm Imbue Design completed using stone-filled gabions for some of the external walls (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a senior designer at skincare brand Aesop, whose Chicago store features walls with bricks arranged in pinwheel pattern (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Colombian-Ecuadorian filmmaker Alejandro Landes has completed his first built project: a tropical-modernist mansion in Miami that is currently among the city's most expensive residential properties (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Foster + Partners has used custom-made bricks to build a campus near Shenzhen, encompassing a university, a hotel and housing that all take in views of the South China Sea. Read more View the full article

The original brick walls and a high timber-trussed ceiling are left exposed inside this former barn in Suffolk, which has been converted into a contemporary home by David Nossiter Architects. Read more View the full article

The consolidation of the Italian furniture industry continues with the announcement that Tecno has become a majority shareholder in Zanotta. Read more View the full article

In Milan for design week but still haven't made it to the IKEA Festival? It's not too late. Find out what's happening in this video highlighting today's must-see talks and events. Read more View the full article

London restaurant Dirty Bones took inspiration from 1970s Brooklyn for its new space in Soho, which features velvet seating, a wood-panelled bar and a toilet hidden behind a faux bookshelf. Read more View the full article

Studio11 has combined industrial finishes with plush furnishings and colourful art to create the interior of its own workspace in Minsk. Read more View the full article

French graphic designers Julien Sens and Nicolas Damiens have transformed the handwriting of musicians David Bowie, John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Leonard Cohen and Serge Gainsbourg into free-to-use typefaces. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Danish designer Cecilie Manz has collaborated with Bang & Olufsen to design a portable speaker that offers 360 degrees of sound. Read more View the full article

This raised wooden structure, designed by Cerejeira Fontes Architects, creates a secluded inner chapel inside an old church in Braga, Portugal. Read more View the full article

Monolithic white blocks and handmade bricks feature inside London Spa, which Richard Bell Architecture has constructed under a home in the west of the city. Read more

A double-height living room stands at the centre of this brutalist house, completed by architectural studio Patisandhika and designer Dan Mitchell in Bali, Indonesia. Read more

Danish brand Ferm Living has created a minimalist play kitchen for children, which is designed to fit into small spaces. Read more

Our new Pinterest board is dedicated to vertical farms and gardens, including studio Precht's modular housing block with spaces for agriculture and a vertical forest tower designed by Stefano Boeri. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›

The best new hotels in Asia mix contemporary design with attention to heritage, say the judges of this year's AHEAD Asia awards in this movie Dezeen produced for the awards programme. Read more

Architecture firm Ménard Dworkind has created a microcosm of Chinatown at this a colossal pan-Asian restaurant and bar in Montreal's Laval suburb. Read more

Fashion designer Virgil Abloh addresses the issue of rising sea-levels in an installation of sinking furniture on show during this year's Venice Art Biennale. Read more

Our pick of the top positions for interior designers on Dezeen Jobs this week includes vacancies at design studio AvroKO and architecture firm Ingenhoven Architects. Read more

Over a thousand houses built on the Store Lungegårdsvann lake will form the heart of Trenezia, a sustainable village masterplanned by Waugh Thistleton for Bergen, Norway. Read more

A series of minimal white blocks interlock to form this holiday home by Studio Andrew Trotter, which takes cues from local architecture in Puglia. Read more

David Adjaye has designed an exhibition of ceramicist Magdalene Odundo's work at the Norman Foster-designed Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich. Read more

Waste heat from one of the London Underground's tube lines will be used to warm over a thousand homes in the UK capital from this winter. Read more