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Wooden boxes define rooms and mezzanines in Loft House by CAPD

Japanese studio CAPD has used large wooden boxes to created rooms and mezzanine floors within a  house in Tokushima Prefecture (+ slideshow).

 
 

Welton Becket's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion stars in Kenzo perfume advert

American director Spike Jonze has used an iconic Los Angeles music hall by Modernist architect Welton Becket as the venue for a four-minute perfume advert for French fashion house Kenzo (+ movie).

 
 

Bruno Lucas Dias adds timber skeleton to Portuguese accessories boutique

Items are displayed upon a series of pine structures inside this accessories store in AnsiĆ£o, Portugal.

 
 

Students create Night Train party pavilion for former brewery in Latvia

Architecture students have built a train-inspired party pavilion in the grounds of a former factory, featuring a glowing wooden carriage that shuttles along a raised platform (+ slideshow)

 
 

Designs of the Year 2016 nominees announced

Herzog & de Meuron's Tate Modern Switch House, Ikea's flatpack refugee shelter, and the artwork for David Bowie's final album are among projects nominated for the Design Museum's Designs of the Year awards 2016 (+ slideshow).

 
 

David Adjaye's NMAAHC gets set to open in Washington DC

Work has completed on the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture by British architect David Adjaye, which is poised to open next month (+ slideshow).

 
 

Lloyd Architects builds community-oriented farmhouse in Utah

US firm Lloyd Architects has completed a new barn in Utah for a family that has been farming the same land since the 1800s (+ slideshow).

 
 

"Vyborg looks like Helsinki might after a long, drawn out war"

Opinion: with the exemplary restoration of Alvar Aalto's seminal Viipuri/Vyborg Library, Finland has schooled Russia in how to treat its neglected 20th century buildings. Now they need to restore the rest of the city, says Owen Hatherley.

 
 

Zaha Hadid's 2007 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion put up for sale at Chatsworth House

A pavilion designed by the late Zaha Hadid for London's Serpentine Gallery has been installed in the grounds of a stately home England's Peak District, ahead of its sale.

 
 

"It looks like a mess from a distance until you see how perfectly it is executed"

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Comments update: Diller Scofidio + Renfro's vertically designed medical building for Columbia University has divided opinion, with some readers labelling the structure a "mess".

 
 

Londoners demand skyscraper height restrictions

London residents have called for height caps and no-build zones to protect the city from the increasing number of new skyscrapers.

 
 

DIGSAU uses reclaimed barn wood to clad modern home in Delaware

This single-family home in Delaware was built using wood reclaimed from a nearby agricultural structure slated for demolition (+ slideshow).

 
 
 
   
 
 

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