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Pennsylvania architecture studio ISA has designed a slender five-storey house in a developing Philadelphia neighbourhood, as a housing prototype for tiny vacant lots. Read more

A three-storey-high atrium brings natural light and ventilation into the heart of this skinny house in Vietnam by Nguyen Khac Phuoc Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Australian architect Matt Gibson has created a multi-generational home from a stack of zinc-clad boxes on a narrow infill site in Melbourne. Read more

Microsoft employees have moved into a new metal-clad headquarters in Denmark, designed by Henning Larsen Architects but based on a paper written by the tech company's founder Bill Gates (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2014: Konstantin Grcic, Naoto Fukasawa and Jasper Morrison are among the six designers who have created objects from Carrara marble for design brand Marsotto Edizioni, showing in Milan this week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Claudia Orsetti joined Heatherwick Studio six years ago, having previously worked at architecture firms SANAA and ACME. For the Dezeen Jobs careers guide, she explains how she worked her way up to project leader. Read more

Icelandic fashion designer Sruli Recht had a slice of skin surgically removed from his own belly to make this ring. (more...) View the full article

Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Niels Datema has designed a lamp made entirely of graphite, which illuminates when its two parts connect (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Three Royal College of Art architecture graduates have used stripped scaffolding boards and reclaimed parquet flooring to create a wooden cafe at the school’s Battersea campus in south London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A large window punctures white-painted brickwork to reveal fashion brand Everlane's store in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighbourhood. Read more

Emerging Dutch firm Unknown Architects has renovated a 200-year-old house in Leiden by stripping back its interior, and inserting built-in furniture and a twisting white staircase (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five graphic prints that depict iconic buildings by architects including Oscar Niemeyer, Zaha Hadid and Álvaro Siza. (more...) View the full article

An EU court has told Adidas it cannot hold a trade mark for the use of three stripes "in any direction". Read more

During this year's Milan design week, Nendo will submerge 30 of its new vases in an aquarium so that they gently move around like jellyfish. Read more View the full article

British architect Richard Rogers has gifted the seminal Wimbledon home he designed for his parents in the late 1960s to the Harvard Graduate School of Design. (more…)

Two light-filled courtyards and a private parking space are concealed behind the metal-clad facade of this small house in Osaka, Japan, by local firm Arbol Design (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: "In the spirit of Steve Jobs, when I identify that I am no longer 'with it' I'll retire," says Norman Foster as his firm is named Britain's biggest practice. (more...) View the full article

Italian design studio Archiplan has installed a series of Corten steel, wood and concrete rest areas and information points along the banks of a river in Italy to enhance views of the surrounding countryside (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This cylindrical, larch-clad observation tower was designed by Icosis Architects to provide an elevated vantage point over picturesque bogland and night skies in Scotland (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our job of the week on the new and improved Dezeen Jobs is for a head of design at London's V&A Museum, which exhibited British architect Sam Jacob's replica refugee shelter at the Venice Biennale (pictured). Visit the ad for full details of the position or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Architectural drawings of a small workers' shack that featured in an exhibition in Shanghai, China, have been enlarged and used to create a full-scale replica in Auckland, New Zealand. (more...) View the full article

Cologne 2014: Eindhoven designer Tsuyoshi Hayashi has used discarded roof tiles to create curving seats for a series of stools and benches (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

French car manufacturer Renault has unveiled its latest concept electric car, which features a red windscreen and a roof that "opens like the lid of a jewellery box" (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

A burnout culture of "sleep is for the weak" must be stopped in design education for the sake of students' mental health say #DezeenChat participants. Read more

Movie: in this exclusive interview, architect Winy Maas of MVRDV explains how the firm developed the distinctive curving arch design of the Markthal in Rotterdam, which opened today. (more...) View the full article