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Young Japanese architect Cohta Asano created a new space for a hairdresser inside an existing building in Iwaki, adding a steel frame to support angular wooden shelves and partitions (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A gabion wall supports this hillside residence in Washington, which local architect David Coleman has perched above a steep, grassy mound. Read more

Photo essay: a shark in a corridor and a toad seated on a filing cabinet are among the scenes found by Austrian photographer Klaus Pichler when he went backstage at the Natural History Museum Vienna (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architect Frank Gehry has designed a pair of office buildings for Warner Bros Entertainment in Los Angeles, to resemble "icebergs floating along the freeway". Read more

The vast LocHal library and events space, designed by Amsterdam-based studio Civic Architects, occupies a former glass and steel locomotive shed in Tilburg, the Netherlands. Read more

German practice IFUB has completed a pair of timber homes in Munich that are subtly differentiated by the direction of their diagonal larch cladding and different coloured blinds. Read more

Music: German director David Aufdembrinke created the video for Alban Endlos' solo debut by transferring documentary footage from India onto an old video tape and manipulating it using magnets. (more…)

This floating weather station by Matthew Butcher has been cast adrift in the flood-prone Thames Estuary, and is intended as a critique on the current trend for floating architecture (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Mary Arnold-Forster Architects designed the tin-clad Black Shed house on the Isle of Skye for an architect and a rabbi. Read more

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, OMA and Jonathan Tuckey Design, whose glazed extension to a Grade II-listed Cotswolds house is pictured. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with YOO, Speedo International, Martha Schwartz Partners and more... (more…) View the full article

Nike has launched an app setting that provides "hyper-accurate" sizing recommendations for each of its shoes by scanning your feet with a smartphone camera. Read more

Design Miami 2014: Seattle studio Olson Kundig Architects used stacks of timber beams to form the collector's lounge at this year's Design Miami fair (+ interview + slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The white walls of this modern family home by FCC Arquitectura nestle behind the deteriorated stone facade of a former farmhouse and granary in northern Portugal (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

New York studio Grzywinski+Pons has ripped out the "sterile" interior of a lobby in a London hotel to reveal industrial fittings, which it has paired with pastel accessories and paintwork (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The top opportunities in architecture and design available on Dezeen Jobs this week include positions at British fashion brand Paul Smith and the Science Museum in London. Read more

Graduate designer Katharina Unger has designed a table-top insect breeding farm that allows people to produce edible fly larvae in their homes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

American studios MSR Design and JRA Architect have completed a public library in Louisville featuring a sculptural, medal-clad exterior that is partly concealed by tall, leafy trees. Read more

Chunky wooden columns and beams support the sloping timber ceiling of this small pharmacy by Japanese studio Ninkipen! in the city of Ogaki (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A plywood staircase with built-in cupboards and bookshelves frames a doorway in this Madrid apartment – which follows the London home with a combined bookshelf and staircase we published yesterday. (more…) View the full article

News: Brian MacKay-Lyons has been selected for Canada's most prestigious architecture award thanks to his "pure, dignified, poetic and beautiful" projects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This month the entire design community flocks to Milan for the biggest event in the industry calendar. Whether you're visiting for the design week, or planning a separate trip, here's a travel guide to the city's best hotels, restaurants, cafes and shops. Read more

Hundreds of haute couture garments created by the House of Dior in the past 70 years are presented in a sweeping exhibition in Dallas designed by OMA partner Shohei Shigematsu. Read more

Floating staircases connect teaching spaces in the Brutalist-style monolithic concrete School of Planning and Architecture Vijayawada by Mobile Offices in India. Read more

Japanese studio Tato Architects has built a house in the town of Sonobe, Japan, with a sunroom that can be opened up to the garden by sliding open a huge corrugated polycarbonate wall. Read more

Brooklyn architecture studio PRO has overhauled a townhouse in Williamsburg, adding a slanted glass volume on its top-level to double the home's living space. Read more