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A+Awards: this badminton hall in a Swiss village, which looks more like a spaceport than a sports facility, received an Architizer A+Award last year. Read more View the full article

A "building block castle" by Camille Walala and an undulating tapestry by Ross Lovegrove are among the 400 events prepped to take place during this year's London Design Festival. Read more View the full article

The part of Oslo's government quarter damaged during the 2011 terrorist bombing will be replaced by one of two proposals – one by a team including Haptic and Nordic, and another by a team featuring A-Lab and LPO Architects. Read more View the full article

The Serpentine Pavilion programme is launching in Beijing, with an inaugural commission by Chinese studio Jiakun Architects to open in May this year. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio SO designed this bunker-like concrete house in the Thai city of Chiang Mai around a pathway that provides locals a shortcut between two roads. Read more View the full article

Kanye West's Yeezy design brand has moved into a new studio in Calabasas, California, which local designer Willo Perron has given a bare aesthetic celebrating "utilitarianism and brutalism". Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the deadline to enter Dezeen and Samsung's competition to create Ambient Mode graphics for the brand's QLED TVs has been extended. Read more View the full article

American studio ZGF Architects has transformed the interior of a 1940s hangar in Los Angeles into a Google office, featuring open workspaces, elevated walkways and exposed timber beams. Read more

A set of bar stools is the latest addition to Dutch designer Maarten Baas' "family" of upholstered chairs with irregular back shapes for furniture brand Lensvelt. Read more

The winners of the AHEAD Global awards discuss their projects in this movie filmed by Dezeen for the hotel awards programme at the London prize-giving ceremony. Read more

Stone, woodwork and pops of blue are teamed together inside this French restaurant and bar in Atlanta, which local practice AI3 designed to evoke the chef's childhood in Provence. Read more

Studies have found that the bright lights and glazing of towering structures in US cities including New York, Chicago and Los Angeles are causing millions of migratory birds to die each year. Read more

Steven Holl Architects has designed two glass towers linked by garden bridges, which will become the headquarters for biotech company iCarbonX in Shenzhen, China. Read more

Italian architect and designer Piero Lissoni speaks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about his career and his designs for B&B Italia in this talk hosted with the Italian furniture brand. Watch the talk live from 11am New York time. Read more

Architect Jerome Engelking sought to avoid metaphors and "overt symbolism" while conceiving this glass-and-wood holiday home on New York's Long Island. Read more

We've selected the top five roles in architecture, interiors and design on Dezeen Jobs this week, including positions at Adjaye Associates and Foster + Partners. Read more

Con Form Architects has converted a small London loft into a bright home office by inserting a glazed section with a large steel dormer window. Read more

The outrage over New York's Hudson Yards is not really about ugly glass towers or bad urbanism – although it features both – but an unspoken disquiet that foreign ideas have overtaken a chunk of Manhattan, argues Aaron Betsky. Read more

Herbst Architects has raised a house in Piha, New Zealand, on a concrete plinth and steel stilts to give views through the dense woodland to the beach. Read more

Forensic Architecture and Invisible Institute have created six-video investigation into the killing of an African-American barber Harith Augustus by the police for this year's Chicago Architecture Biennial. Read more

The fifth annual Medellin Design Week set out to show that Colombia is ready to stop copying and start developing a national design identity. Read more

Dezeen promotion: French designer Jean-Marie Massaud has created a collections of taps and shower fittings called Axor Edge that are produced using a diamond-tipped cutting machine more often seen in the aerospace and laser industries. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: in our latest competition, Dezeen has partnered with Muji to give away five hard-shell suitcases from the Muji to Go travel collection. Read more View the full article

Danish design company Skagerak has partnered with design duo Included Middle on an outdoor furniture collection called Gerda, inspired by traditional red and white tablecloths. Read more View the full article

Mexican firm Reyes Rios + Larrain Arquitectos has covered the walls of an apartment complex in Tulum in stucco that is pigmented pink to contrast pockets of greenery. Read more View the full article