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Schmidt Hammer Lassen's Cloud Pavilion is a glass-walled events space in Shanghai

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has completed a pavilion on the bank of Shanghai's Huangpu River, with thin metal columns surrounding a glass-walled room shaped like a cartoon cloud (+ movie).

 
 

Creative industries must present a united front to make best of Brexit says John Sorrell

Creatives must "get their act together and speak with a united voice" to protect the future of the sector post-Brexit, according to London Design Festival and Creative Industries Federation founder John Sorrell.

 
 

Call for entries to the Tile of Spain Awards 2016

Dezeen promotion: architects and designers are invited to submit projects that feature Spanish-made ceramics to the Tile of Spain Awards 2016 (+ slideshow).

 
 

Moarqs and Ottolenghi Architects wrap Lamas House with concrete screen

A concrete screen wraps the upper storey of this villa in Buenos Aires Province, blinkering bedroom windows from the street and directing views into a planted courtyard (+ slideshow).

 
 

Pedro Venzon bases stackable Pudica chair on Brazil's colonial architecture

The form of this chair by designer Pedro Venzon is based on the curves and shapes found in architecture left over from Portugal's colonisation of Brazil (+ slideshow).

 
 

Delfino Lozano's Casa G features an elevated brick games room

A brick volume containing a games room balances on steel beams that raise it above the sloping plot of this house in the Mexican city of Zapopan (+ slideshow).

 
 

Architects imagine new uses for Philip Johnson's New York State Pavilion

A proposal to add a giant curvaceous  greenhouse on top of the pavilion designed by Philip Johnson for the 1964-65 World's Fair has won a competition to suggest uses for the abandoned structure.

 
 

Shipping container serves as mobile boutique for luxury sportswear brand Needs & Wants

Online retailer Needs & Wants Studios has collaborated with a Toronto architecture student to transform a shipping container into a mobile boutique that serves as the brand's first physical store (+ slideshow).

 
 

Gabion cages filled with volcanic stone support meditation platform at Utah spiritual retreat

An expansive terrace provides a meditation space at this weekend residence and spiritual retreat in the Utah desert, which US firm Imbue Design completed using stone-filled gabions for some of the external walls (+ slideshow).

 
 

Bertrand Guillon fits petite delicatessen into 35-square-metre Provencal shopfront

French practice Bertrand Guillon Architecture has made the most of extra height at the front of this shop in Marseille when transforming the interior into an épicerie (+ slideshow).

 
 

Rotating and tilting ReActor house accommodates two artists for five days

A pair of artists built and lived in this house balanced on a pole in upstate New York, which spun around and inclined as they moved around it during their week-long residency (+ movie).

 
 

England's Premier League gets a minimal rebrand by DesignStudio

England's primary professional football competition has kicked off its 2016/2017 season with a significantly more minimal lion's head logo.

 
 

Rhode Island holiday home by Bernheimer Architecture features pyramid-like skylights

A+Awardsthe next project in our series on winners from this year's A+Awards organised by US site Architizer is a holiday home for a Brooklyn-based family on Rhode Island, with a charred-timber facade (+ slideshow).

 
 
 
   
 
 

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