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News: the six buildings shortlisted for this year's Stirling Prize have been announced, including The Shard by Renzo Piano, Zaha Hadid's Olympic Aquatics Centre, and Europe's largest public library by Mecanoo (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Employees of e-ticketing company Eventbrite can have meetings on bleachers and recline in hammocks at the company's new headquarters in downtown San Francisco by Rapt Studio (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese studio Nendo has spliced together traditional office furniture pieces to create simple combined desks and storage units (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Multi-tonal layers of concrete resemble bands of sediment on the walls of this visitor centre designed by Swiss architect Max Dudler for a medieval fortress in Germany (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Zaha Hadid's dune-inspired building, Africa's tallest skyscraper design (pictured), and furniture covered in doormats feature in Dezeen Mail issue 233. Click through for all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 232 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an architectural designer at Archi-Union Architects, whose tea house and library constructed in the backyard of their studio in Shanghai is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Milan 2015: advances in lighting and battery technologies mean that lighting cables could disappear within a few years, according to designer Philippe Starck and Piero Gandini, CEO of lighting brand Flos (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Music: a crow made of matches goes on an adventure through a paper landscape in singer-songwriter Gabriel Bömher's music video for his own track The Singing Gate (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

The upper storey of this house in Kanagawa is supported by timber beams that extend from the outer walls towards an atrium that connects the two levels (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architecture firm Gensler has completed its Shanghai Tower, which is now China's tallest building and the second-tallest building in the world. (more…) View the full article

Materials and interior details are used to clearly define the old and new parts of this family home in Windsor, UK, renovated by London studio TDO (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen remembers Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid, who has died suddenly aged 65, with a selection of projects that demonstrate her importance to contemporary architecture (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Vo Trong Nghia Architects has designed a city hall for the Vietnamese city of Bac Ninh comprising a pair of planted towers, which lean together at the centre to frame a series of elevated viewing decks (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Hungarian furniture brand Hannabi has designed a modular sofa aimed at consumers who move frequently or live in small flats (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architecture student Steven McCloy has reimagined the European Union as a nomadic organisation that moves to a new city every five years. (more…) View the full article

Architecture firm Skidmore Owings & Merrill has unveiled its vision to transform the Beaux-Arts 30th Street Station and its surrounding area in Philadelphia (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Home rentals website Airbnb has created a multipurpose office space based on traditional Japanese interiors and neighbourhoods for its Tokyo employees (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Graduate shows 2016: the trend for line-drawn furniture design crossed over into fashion at the Parsons School of Design graduate show in New York, where two collections with sketch-like details were among Dezeen US editor Dan Howarth's favourites. (more…) View the full article

American firm Steven Holl Architects has completed an Iowa art school that consists of irregularly stacked concrete volumes sheathed in weathering zinc and stainless steel. (more…) View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for an architect at Amanda Levete's firm, AL_A, whose undulating, tile-covered MAAT Museum (pictured) opened in Lisbon in September. Read more stories about AL_A or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Birch-framed skylights and windows offer patients garden views when undergoing treatment at this sculptural dental clinic in the Netherlands, designed by Studio Prototype. Read more View the full article

The architects of Belarusian office Studio 11 looked to their country's past when designing the offices for gaming company Vizor, combining Soviet-era details with bold red walls and modern lighting. Read more View the full article

Heinz has partnered with Selfridges to mark the 50th anniversary of its famous baked-bean slogan by updating its iconic packaging with limited-edition labels. Read more View the full article

As prefabricated buildings become increasingly prolific, Silicon Valley design-build firm Katerra hopes to revolutionise the construction industry by using a technology-driven and full-services approach to creating structures at a large scale. Read more View the full article

Acclaimed architect Neave Brown, a "pioneer of quality public housing", has died following a battle with cancer. Read more View the full article