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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

Competition: continuing our series of features on new publishing ventures, Dezeen are giving readers a chance to win a copy of Useless: Critical Writing in Art and Design written by Royal College of Art graduates. (more…) View the full article

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

Zaha Hadid 1950-2016: leading architects including Norman Foster, Bjarke Ingels, Richard Rogers and Daniel Libeskind have paid tribute to the late Zaha Hadid in a video created by Dezeen and Architizer. (more…) View the full article

Haworth white papers: co-working spaces popular with small companies and individual workers could help large corporations be more innovative, according to a report by office furniture giant Haworth. (more…) View the full article

Dark limestone walls form a low-lying pool house that runs alongside this chemical-free swimming bath in Edmonton, designed by architecture studio GH3. Read more

Hotel brand Trunk worked alongside design studio Tripster to create this boutique hotel in Tokyo, which takes cues from traditional Japanese aesthetics – but unusually boasts its own miniature nightclub. Read 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

Milwaukee-based Johnsen Schmaling Architects has completed a family retreat in rural Wisconsin featuring blackened pine cladding, concrete floors and wide-span glass doors (+ 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

Lofty interiors and a folded black steel staircase feature behind the larch-clad walls of this gabled house, designed by Karawitz and situated outside Paris. Read more View the full article

Austrian design duo Mischer’Traxler talk to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about how their basket-building machine will only work when someone’s watching in this movie we filmed at Clerkenwell Design Week. (more…) View the full article

More than 900 bamboo poles were used to construct this home, designed by architect Enrique Mora Alvarado for a site in a remote Ecuadorian rainforest (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Japanese practices Sasaki Architecture and Atelier O have transformed the ground level of a 40-year-old warehouse in Tokyo into a gallery for traditional Hina dolls (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Researchers at Forensic Architecture are investigating allegations that human rights organisations colluded with human traffickers to smuggle refugees across the Mediterranean, in the latest real-world intervention by the team. Read more View the full article

Here are some images of the competition-winning proposals by Snøhetta, Duncan Lewis and Casson Mann for a visitor complex at the Paleolithic cave paintings in Lascaux, France. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: architects and designers are invited to submit concepts to transform an abandoned paper factory in Bologna, Italy, into a high school and a business incubator for start-ups (+ slideshow). (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

Architect Sam Jacob has unveiled plans to convert a former east-London pub into a home for himself and a nursery – with Postmodern touches including curving facades and assorted window shapes. (more…) View the full article

British designer Jasper Morrison has designed a set of trays as well as updates to his Hal chair series for Swiss furniture brand Vitra, which will go on show during London Design Festival next month (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A "seamless flow" of spaces including a library, 250-tree garden and a shared social space form the heart of the Shigeru Ban-designed Shishi-Iwa House boutique hotel in Japan. Read more

Competition: we've teamed up with publisher Verso to give away five copies of Radical Cities, the new book by curator, critic and Dezeen columnist Justin McGuirk. (more...) View the full article