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In this week's comments update, readers are questioning the thinking behind Gus Wüstemann's concrete-heavy housing block. Read more

ÉCAL graduate Marina Daguet has designed a cleaner, modern alternative to the traditional prayer candles found in churches. Read more

Fashion brand COS, skincare brand Aesop and management consultants McKinsey & Company are among the high-profile global companies that Dezeen is partnering with for Milan design week. Read more

Unsangdong Architects has designed the Hannae Forest of Wisdom community centre in Seoul with a row of intersecting gabled forms enclosed by glass end walls. Read more

Gauzy white curtains and subtly patterned floors help organise the layout of this events space, created by architect Mary Duggan for the Science Museum in London. Read more

Danish practice Norm Architects has lent their minimalist aesthetic to a 70-foot-long luxury yacht, decking out its interiors with an array of warm and tactile materials. Read more

A dramatic twisting staircase and a spacious conservatory are some of the striking features that Luigi Rosselli Architects has added to this 1920s Sydney home. Read more

The first images of Kanye West's prototype housing for the homeless have been revealed, as the musician faces an order to tear down the structures following complaints over construction noise. Read more

Architecture firms Dorte Mandrup, Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Weiss Manfredi have revealed their competition proposals to redevelop the park and museum accompanying Los Angeles' historic La Brea Tar Pits. Read more

Every attendee at our Dezeen Day conference in London on 30 October will receive a free Herschel backpack worth £60. Read more

New York design studio Workstead has displayed a series of light fixtures influenced by forms used by modernist architect Philip Johnson inside his Glass House in Connecticut. Read more View the full article

Skidmore Owings & Merrill has revealed plans to build a glass-and-ceramic office building for Disney's New York operations, called 4 Hudson Square. Read more View the full article

Second Home Hollywood, the first US location from the British co-working company, is revealed in this captioned video produced by Dezeen for Second Home. Read more View the full article

American architect Paul Andersen has designed a series of commercial structures in Colorado with deceptive facades that rise higher than the actual buildings – a style that was popular in the Old West. Read more View the full article

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has met Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro as part of a visit to investigate developing a tourism masterplan for the northeast region of the country. Read more View the full article

Ace Hotel has revealed the first photos of its new venue in Kyoto, designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma and Los Angeles-based design studio Commune. Read more View the full article

Multiple European brands came together for MUT Design's Das Haus installation at IMM Cologne to create hybrid indoor-outdoor furniture prototypes that are now being put into production. Read more View the full article

Architecture firm Walters & Cohen uses weathered steel and concrete for King's International College in Canterbury, Kent, to reference the site's industrial heritage. Read more View the full article

A bamboo framework filled with plants surrounds the brick core of this sanitation facility designed by H&P Architects for a school in rural Vietnam (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Seiki Design Studio presents Kova, a range of wooden vases designed for dried flowers, during the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: The Yellow Untitled is a new rug collection designed by Sandra Keja Planken for Noun Amsterdam that aims to brighten interiors "like the morning sun". Read more View the full article

We’ve teamed up with Manchester graphic designers Music to offer our readers the chance to win one of three copies of Stuff We Really Like, a compilation of favourite things chosen by the people who work in the studio. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Breaking news: Christo, the Bulgarian artist famous for wrapping buildings, has died of natural causes at the age of 84. Read more View the full article

Berlin design duo Osko+Deichmann will present a collection of tubular steel and pine furniture at Helmrinderknecht Gallery for Contemporary Design in Berlin later this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Boston architecture firm Machado Silvetti has been selected to preserve an 18th-century home in Virginia once owned by a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Read more View the full article