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Latest architecture and design news from Dezeen.
 
   
 
   
 
   
 

The hands of Maarten Baas' Schiphol clock are drawn on in real time

Dutch designer Maarten Baas' giant Real Time Schiphol timepiece replaces traditional clock hands with a 12-hour-long video performance (+ movie).

 
 

Dune-shaped car park by Royal HaskoningDHV doubles as a flood defence

Curving windows peep above the ground to bring light into this underground car park in South Holland, which is covered in grassy hillocks to replicate a dune landscape (+ slideshow).

 
 

Václav Mlynár combines physical and digital play in Koski board game

Graduate shows 2016: these simple, wooden blocks designed by Royal College of Art graduate Václav Mlynář's contain a bridge to a hidden world that can only be unlocked by an iPad (+ movie).

 
 

Aim Architecture designs contemporary interior for Soho Bund hotel in Shanghai

Chinese firm Aim Architecture sought to strike a balance between modern and Jazz Age Shanghai with this revamp of a 1930s-style hotel for property developer Soho China (+ slideshow).

 
 

James Corner Field Operations installs over 30 "icebergs" in Washington DC museum

US studio James Corner Field Operations has created an installation for the National Building Museum in Washington DC that evokes a glacial landscape, with giant shard-like forms that jut upward and downward (+ slideshow).

 
 

Designs submitted for Berlin's tallest skyscraper

German property developer Bewocon has unveiled plans for a 150-metre-high skyscraper in Berlin, which could become the city's tallest building.

 
 

Advertising agencies unveil rejected Remain campaign posters

Brexit crisis: the agencies behind the Remain advertising campaign have shared their unsuccessful designs and described a "frustrating" process that was "doomed" to fail (+ slideshow). 

 
 

Today we like: American skyscrapers

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America may no longer be home to the world's tallest building, but the country that invented skyscrapers is still pioneering their design with skinner, greener and more unusually shaped structures.

We're celebrating this 4 July – US Independence Day – with a look back at some of the most recent examples, including Rafael Viñoly's already iconic 432 Park Avenue and Herzog & de Meuron's "Jenga tower"  (pictured). See more US skyscrapers »

 
 

CGI artist Forbes Massie unveils "completely seductive" renderings in London exhibition

Visualisation artist Forbes Massie has exhibited a series of architectural renderings with a painterly rather than photorealistic aesthetic at the Protein Studios gallery in east London (+ slideshow).

 
 

SCAU adds undulating ring-shaped roof to Marseille football stadium

French firm SCAU designed the undulating fibreglass roof of  Marseille's football stadium, which is set to host the UEFA Euro 2016 semi-final between France and Germany this Thursday (+ slideshow).

 
 

Architects and designers share Brexit anger with protest Instagrams

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Brexit crisis: British architects and designers were among tens of thousands of people to protest against a UK exit from the European Union in London on Saturday.

 
 
 
   
 
 

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