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Montreal firm ACDF Architecture has created a new arts centre in the suburbs, fronted by a colonnade of vertical and angled stainless steel supports (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

East London design brand Hulger has contributed a chandelier made from its new Baby Plumen light bulbs to the Stepney Green Design Collection curated by Dezeen. (more…) View the full article

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

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

This lapel pin by Israeli designer Omer Polak incorporates a miniature vase to hold tiny blooms (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Floor-to-ceiling glazing permits views across rooms and into the garage of this renovated Chicago office, where the owner's limited-edition Porsche is parked (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A colourful geometric wall provides a strong contrast to this otherwise stark sake bar and brewery in Brooklyn's Industry City, designed by local studio Carpenter + Mason. Read more

Boxy wooden rooms branch out from a crooked blue spine at this family house in Sayo, Japan, in our second story this week about the work of FujiwaraMuro Architects. (more...) View the full article

German designer Samuel Treindl has made a clock, lamp and other products from shapes cut out of existing furniture (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This house in the Australian desert by Dunn & Hillam Architects hunkers down into the earth and features a large angled roof to protect it from extreme temperature fluctuations (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

An exhibition of cork furniture by Jasper Morrison has opened at the Kasmin Gallery in New York's Chelsea, the designer's first solo show in North America. Read more

Following the publication of three projects by Kengo Kuma this week, we've collected together the best examples of the Japanese architect's work from the pages of Dezeen and pinned them to a new Pinterest board. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more Kengo Kuma architecture 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

British artist Cornelia Parker has created an installation based on the mansion from Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho for this year's Roof Garden commission at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (+ slideshow). (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

Architecture studio IFUB has transformed the second floor of an old chocolate factory in Berlin into an apartment featuring curved ceilings, exposed steelwork and big windows. (more…) View the full article

Consumer goods company Unilever has launched Cif ecorefill, a concentrated cleaning product that can be diluted at home within a refillable spray bottle, to reduce plastic use. Read more

Arizona studio DUST has created a desert home south of Tucson using volcanic residue to form rammed-earth walls (+ slideshow). (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

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

Our pick of the five best jobs in architecture, interiors and design on Dezeen Jobs this week include opportunities at British architecture firms Allies and Morrison and Caruso St John Architects. Read more

The team behind a virtual reality tool that allows designers to sketch in three dimensions has launched an iPad app that turns drawings into virtual and physical 3D models (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

American industrial designer Tucker Viemeister has created a graphic that shows the US flag with portions blocked out, to critique the redacted release of the investigation into president Donald Trump's collusion with Russia. Read more

We're thrilled to announce we now have over 750,000 likes on our Facebook page, where we post all the latest news from Dezeen, exclusive video content and the best reader comments. Read more View the full article

Product news: London designer Simon Pengelly has created these curved wooden chairs with cut-out backs for British furniture brand Modus. (more...) View the full article