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Canadian firm ACDF Architecture has designed a lake house on a sloping site in Quebec, with a protruding terrace so residents can get even closer to the water's edge. Read more

Following the opening of an exhibition showcasing conceptual and completed buildings by BIG, we've collected together the best projects by Bjarke Ingels' firm from the pages of Dezeen and pinned them to a new Pinterest board. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more BIG projects View the full article

Soft indents create hundreds of spots across the concrete walls of this health centre in northeast France, designed by Atelier Martel to offer support and treatment to epilepsy sufferers (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

American artist Doug Aitken has installed a ranch-style house clad in mirrors in the snow-covered mountains of Gstaad, Switzerland. Read more

The timber and stone buildings of Gion A Caminada, a cult figure in Swiss architecture, will feature in an exhibition opening next month at the House of Art in the Czech city of České Budějovice (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: architect Julien de Smedt has designed a museum to feature at the centre of a plot line in popular Danish television series The Legacy. (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2015: high backrests surround these upholstered seats by Swedish furniture brand Lammhults (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Design studio NotAnotherOne has designed a portable air quality monitor that clips onto your bag to test local pollution levels. Read more

The Black House by German architect studio Buero Wagner is a stack of differently sized rooms clad in blackened wood extending a house close to Lake Ammersee in Munich. Read more

Nike has revealed the new home and away football kits for 14 national teams ahead of this year's FIFA Women's World Cup in France. Read more

To continue our quarterly guide to the best architecture and design exhibitions around the world, we've chosen 10 of the best to visit. To find out about industry events taking place in April, May and June, such as Milan design week, look at our comprehensive month-by-month guide. Read more

Dutch designer Hella Jongerius has created a giant loom with threads that tumble 16 metres between the floors of the multi-storey Lafayette Anticipations foundation in the Marais, Paris. Read more

Mexican contemporary artist Bosco Sodi has handmade thousands of bricks and built them into this symmetrical set of 64 cubes on a beachfront site near to Tadao Ando's Casa Wabi in Oaxaca, Mexico. Read more

The main character in High Rise, a new movie based on JG Ballard's dystopian novel, is a residential tower that "doesn't care about the people inside it" and is designed by an arrogant architect. Director Ben Wheatley spoke exclusively to Dezeen about the film and why it "isn't a takedown of the architects of the 50s and 60s" (+ interview). (more…) View the full article

Architecture studio Sevil Peach has overhauled a house once owned by Victorian painter and illustrator Frederick Barnard to create an artist's residence boasting period features and a patio-side bathtub. (more…) View the full article

Stockholm 2015: Swedish designer David Ericsson has created a lightweight chair in solid beech – his "all-time favourite wood" – for furniture brand Gärsnäs. (more…) View the full article

Design Indaba 2015: the design industry has lost touch with its social and cultural values and is producing "too much shit design", according to Hella Jongerius. (more…) View the full article

AE Arquitectos has combined exposed concrete, white render and slatted timber for this morgue in Spain's Asturias principality, which features terraces overlooking a harbour (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dutch designer Nienke Hoogvliet's Waterschatten furniture and homeware is made from reclaimed and recycled toilet paper. Read more View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a retail designer/architect for the perfume branch of fashion house Dior, whose glass fragrance tester is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

The corner appears to have been chopped off this house in Japanese city Oita, revealing a tree growing behind the building's walls (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Product news: American designer Victor Vetterlein has made an edible desk lamp. (more…) View the full article

This wooden bike by Dutch company PedalFactory that arrives flat-packed and can be assembled in under an hour is now in production (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Kooo architects has added wooden beams to a cafe in China to form a woven lattice across the ceiling that lets in light (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: Danish architect Henning Larsen has died in Copenhagen at the age of 87. (more...) View the full article