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Latest architecture and design news from Dezeen.
 
   
 
   
 
   
 

Neri&Hu mimics rocks and tree branches inside Shanghai theatre and exhibition centre

Shanghai studio  Neri&Hu has used wooden sticks and sandstone slabs to create a cavernous interior for a new cultural centre in the city's emerging Hongqiao district (+ slideshow).

 
 

Kariouk Associates sneaks around planning laws to gain lake vistas for A Bower House

To gain views of Canada's Lake Erie from a sheltered plot, architecture firm Kariouk Associates designed this house to include a "love nest" that pokes above the treetops (+ slideshow).

 
 

Tokyo apartment by Minorpoet features kitchen hidden behind folding doors

Design studio Minorpoet has overhauled a 1960s apartment in Tokyo to create a simple home and workplace that has its kitchen hidden behind folding wooden doors (+ slideshow).

 
 

Apollo Architects completes earthquake-resistant house with a hat-like roof

A pointy wooden roof tops this  concrete house in Tokyo, which led Apollo Architects & Associates to name the building Hat.

 
 

Magnetic Sound2 speaker designed to be easily moved and mounted

Korean design studios Cloudandco and 11+ have teamed up to create this pocket-sized wireless speaker that can be mounted onto a fridge (+ slideshow).

 
 

Hem House by Sanuki Daisuke features patterned window grilles and a hidden roof garden

Patterned grills screen the windows of this terrazzo-covered house in Ho Chi Minh City, which has been designed by local studio Sanuki Daisuke Architects to make the most of the site's little natural light (+ slideshow).

 
 

Lubrano Ciavarra clads weekend retreat in Rhode Island using cedar and rough-cut slate

Providing sweeping views of a wilderness reserve was the primary goal for US studio Lubrano Ciavarra when designing this large wood-and-slate holiday home in Rhode Island (+ slideshow).

 
 

The 10 top installations and exhibitions at London Design Festival 2016

London Design Festival 2016: with this year's London Design Festival less than a month away, Dezeen's Alice Morby selects her pick of the best installations and exhibitions that will be taking place across the capital.

 
 

Soho House and Michaelis Boyd turn derelict farm into luxury members' hotel

Soho House & Co's in-house design team and London architects Michaelis Boyd have overhauled a run-down farm in Oxfordshire to create Soho Farmhouse – a hotel that combines English countryside style with "upstate New York cabin culture" (+ slideshow).

 
 

"Scrapping the Garden Bridge wouldn't indicate that the UK has lost confidence"

Garden Bridge design by Thomas Heatherwick

Comments update: readers are discussing Thomas Heatherwick's controversial Garden Bridge this week after the British designer suggested that ditching the project so soon after Britain's vote to leave the European Union would be a step "backwards" for the country.

 
 

Arch 11 completes Rocky Mountain home atop a concrete plinth

Colorado architecture firm Arch11 has raised a single-family residence on a concrete plinth to provide unobstructed views of the Rocky Mountains (+ slideshow).

 
 

Call for entries to American Architecture Prize 2016

Dezeen promotion:  entries are now open for architects to submit projects to the American Architecture Prize, which will be judged by Alejandro Zaera-PoloSadie Morgan and Will Alsop (+ slideshow).

 
 

Iwan Baan photographs Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Vagelos Educational Building in New York

Photographer Iwan Baan has released new images of Diller Scofidio + Renfro's recently completed medical building for Columbia University, which trades a typical educational facility's "boring" horizontal layout for vertical organisation (+ slideshow).

 
 

Tokyo Olympics medals could be made of old smartphones

To make medals for Tokyo 2020, Olympic organisers are considering mining Japan's vast repositories of e-waste for millions of discarded smartphones and computers.

 
 
 
   
 
 

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