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News: British architect Norman Foster has unveiled a concept to build a network of elevated pathways above London's railways to create safe car-free cycling routes, following 14 cyclist deaths on the city's streets in 2013. (more...) View the full article

French office Périphériques has redeveloped a site in west Paris by adding apartment blocks with contrasting facades and angular balconies, as well as a nursery with stripy pink and green walls (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The lower storey of this house in Ontario by Toronto studio Williamson Chong Architects is wrapped by a concrete wall that burrows into a hillside, while the upper floor is an overhanging box clad with red-stained timber (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: architect Daniel Libeskind has designed a chandelier of hand-blown crystal glass shards for Czech brand Lasvit. (more...) View the full article

Cedar cladding and brickwork unite the exterior and interior of this two-bedroom house that Studio 54 Architecture has squeezed between two existing properties in north London. (more...) View the full article

Japanese studio Yuji Kimura Design has hidden this Tokyo house behind a tall white wall to maintain the residents' privacy (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, SCP Contracts and Heatherwick Studio, whose proposal for a pedestrian garden bridge to span the River Thames is pictured. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Marc Newson, Lee Broom, Jerry Tate Architects and more... (more...) View the full article

Maison&Objet 2014: British design brand Another Country has collaborated with Canadian designer Dana Cannam on a lighting range that will be unveiled today at Paris trade fair Maison & Objet. (more...) View the full article

Italian designer Marco Guazzini has created a console with drawers that slide along its length to create different configurations (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A bank of cherry blossoms are mirrored in the reflective gables of this cafe that angles around a smaller tree in Gifu, Japan, by architecture studio Bandesign (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London's Royal College of Art has been hit by more senior staff changes, with Ab Rogers (above) stepping down as head of the Interior Design programme, Clare Johnston retiring as head of Textiles and Jeremy Myerson departing as head of research institute the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design. (more…) View the full article

This water sports centre with a green roof was designed by Guinée*Potin Architectes and is set into a grassy bank by a lake in western France (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Transport for London is to fit opening windows on the upper decks of Thomas Heatherwick's new London buses as the designer originally intended, after passengers complained about the heat. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Dezeen has teamed up with watch brand Eone to launch our own version of the popular Bradley timepiece, which was originally designed for the visually impaired. (more…) View the full article

Northmodern 2016: the natural dye used to colour this sleeping bag by Danish studio Buro Belén slowly pales over time, allowing the pattern in the fabric to become more visible. (more…) View the full article

This fair-faced concrete house was designed by Arhitektura Krušec to look like rocks emerging from a sloped meadow facing the Slovenian Alps (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Russian architects Asya Baranova and Nikolay Pokorsky have transformed a Soviet-era furniture store in St Petersburg into a vegetarian cafe, featuring raw materials and an assortment of plants (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2016: Danish firm BIG has created a modular lighting system that can be rearranged to form different letters of a bespoke typeface. (more…) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: sharing technologies like Uber and Airbnb could offer the answer to the UK housing crisis say the curators of the British Pavilion, who have unveiled five futuristic models of the home. (more…) View the full article

Graduate shows 2016: architecture graduate Kit Stiby Harris has proposed relocating the "fake" Parthenon from Athens to the British Museum in London. (more…) View the full article

Music: Religious rituals and 90s dance movements inspired the thousands of dancing men in De Staat's Witch Doctor music video (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an architectural designer at New York studio Peter Marino Architect, which clad watch-brand Hublot's Fifth Avenue store in angled black metal panels (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

New York-based Ghiora Aharoni Design Studio has added curved oak panels and silver leafing to an apartment in an art-deco Manhattan building to better reflect its original style (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Lattices of dark blockwork wrap around a verdant courtyard and narrow swimming pool at this hotel in Mexico City, overhauled by local firm JSa. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Parsons School of Design in New York has introduced a digital product design course to its masters programme. Read more View the full article