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Portuguese studio LIKEarchitects used hundreds of metal paint cans to build this temporary Andy Warhol museum inside a shopping centre in Lisbon. (more...) View the full article

Slideshow: Danish architects 3XN have completed a riverside cultural centre in Norway with glass hills outlined on its facade. (more…) View the full article

The architecture community has paid tribute to William "Bill" Menking, co-founder of The Architect's Newspaper, who has died aged 72 of cancer. Read more View the full article

This water-sports facilities building by THE Architectes has been built into the side of a grassy dune to minimise its visual impact on the coastline (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London's Battersea Power Station is transformed into a museum of architecture and surrounded by a giant roller coaster in these competition-winning proposals by French studio Atelier Zündel Cristea (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Bamboo architects: groundbreaking bamboo architect Simón Vélez, who describes the material as "vegetable steel", has built a trio of experimental structures at Domaine de Boisbuchet in France (+ slideshow + interview). (more...) View the full article

Translucent polycarbonate panels are used to separate different shopping zones outfitted to specific weather conditions in this pop-up shop in New York designed by fashion brand The Arrivals. Read more View the full article

New York fashion brand The Arrivals has created a puffer jacket with a Faraday pocket that blocks cellular and GPS signals on smartphones, to encourage wearers to switch off and "reconnect with the outdoors". Read more View the full article

Flames lapping the edges of an Indian brick kiln, the concrete beams of Herzog & De Meuron's Beijing Olympic stadium, and a Gothic doorway in Milan's Doumo are among the images shortlisted for this year's Art of Building Photographer of the Year competition (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Startup fashion brand The Atelier YUL has designed a range of minimal cases for architects transporting their papers and models. Read more View the full article

Two commercial buildings in Winnipeg have been converted into an apartment block with mirrored balconies that stick out like open drawers. (more...) View the full article

New York artist and designer Moritz Resl has compiled a new "ghostly" typeface by overlaying each letter of the alphabet from over 900 existing font families (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival: designer Faye Toogood has opened up the back room of her studio in north London to host a salmon-smoking workshop, locally sourced lunches and a literary salon. (more…) View the full article

Following the popularity of our story about a Starbucks designed by Kengo Kuma, here are some images of a concept store that the coffee-shop giant has completed inside a historic bank vault in Amsterdam. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Recent works by Spanish studio Herreros Arquitectos are on show at the ROM Gallery in Oslo. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Chatbots, facial recognition tech, deep-fake videos and newly commissioned installations by Es Devlin and Lawrence Lek are on display at The Barbican's sprawling AI: More Than Human exhibition. Read more

Clumps of human hair are recycled as stuffing for two plastic pouffes by Swedish furniture and product designer Ola Giertz. (more…) View the full article

These hand-drawn illustrations by Hackney design studio Something & Son explain the designs for a temporary spa that opens tomorrow in Barking, east London. (more…) View the full article

These twenty lakeside villas in the Qingpu district of Shanghai are designed by Atelier Feichang Jianzhu of Beijing. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch office MVRDV and French architects de Alzua+ have won a competition to re-masterplan the French town of Villeneuve d'Ascq and are proposing a building that cantilevers over a motorway. (more...) View the full article

Stockholm designer Nicolas Cheng has designed a range of brooches made from bits of loofah, sponge and cotton. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Kingston University graduate Wannayos Boonperm has made a series of objects by splicing together familiar household and office products, including this combined watering can and telephone (above). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s another clock designed by Giha Woo and Shingoeun (see their clock with a battery for hands in our earlier story), this time with a single spiralling arm to indicate the time in different countries around the world.Called The Bent Hands, the clock face features countries written inside concentric circles, with linked points on a spiralling [...]</img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Toronto firms Public Work and Greenberg Consultants have completed a new park underneath the city's Gardiner Expressway, to provide "a vital artery for pedestrians and cyclists". Read more

The charred exterior of this temporary pavilion in Bergen, Norway, references 16 major fires that have taken place in the city since the twelfth century. (more…) View the full article