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The Tinhouse by Rural Design is a self-built corrugated-metal dwelling on a Scottish island

Scottish architecture studio Rural Design has completed a shed-like holiday home on Scotland's Isle of Skye, featuring corrugated aluminium walls that reference local agricultural buildings (+ slideshow).

 
 

Jalila Essaïdi makes textiles from manure

Eindhoven designer Jalila Essaïdi has turned manure into haute couture, creating a poo-based fabric that has been used to make clothes (+ movie).

 
 

Le Corbusier's Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp features a monumental concrete roof

World Heritage Corb: next up in our series on the 17 buildings by Le Corbusier that have been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List is the architect's Notre Dame du Haut, the small chapel in Ronchamp, France, that has become one of his most iconic designs.

 
 

Dezeen's updated Pinterest board features over 500 Japanese houses

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A photography series documenting 20 contemporary Japanese homes and their owners joins 500 more examples of Japanese houses on our extensive Pinterest board.

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Carol A Wilson reuses ranch house foundations to build Maine retreat

Maine architect Carol A Wilson has built a two-bedroom home in Batson River on the foundations of a ranch that previously occupied the site, to prevent disturbing nearby trees (+ slideshow).

 
 

Rugged flint walls contrast dark cedar gables of House 19 by Jestico and Whiles

Dark-stained cedar gables contrast with knapped flint walls at this English countryside house, designed by London-based Jestico and Whiles for one of the firm's directors (+ slideshow).

 
 

Raúl Sánchez uses contrasting materials to define rooms in Barcelona apartment

Spanish architect Raúl Sánchez has overhauled a long and narrow apartment in Barcelona to create a sequence of rooms lined in patterned tiles, micro-cement, marble and wood (+ slideshow).

 
 

Austeja Platukyte's packaging is made from biodegradable algae-based plastic

Graduate shows 2016: Vilnius Academy of Arts graduate Austeja Platukyte has designed a range of packaging using a material made from algae, which could replace non-biodegradable forms of plastic (+ slideshow).

 
 

Studio Smack creates army of dancing men for De Staat's Witch Doctor music video

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

 
 

Marcelo Del Torto arranges concrete home in Argentina around mature trees and plunge pool

Argentinian architect Marcelo Del Torto has arranged a family home around a group of mature trees in a gated community in Buenos Aires Province (+ slideshow).

 
 
 
   
 
 

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