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Aurora Arquitectos draws attention to additions and "ruptures" in Lisbon apartment

Aurora Arquitectos knocked through walls to create a large living room in this old Lisbon apartment, and inserted a wall with curving edges to form a pair of bedrooms (+ slideshow).

 
 

Liron Gino designs Vibeat listening devices for the hearing impaired

Graduate shows 2016: Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design graduate Liron Gino has designed a set of jewellery-like devices that allow deaf and hearing-impaired people to experience music through vibration (+ movie).

 
 

Le Corbusier's Chandigarh government buildings captured in new images by Benjamin Hosking

World Heritage Corb: for the next instalment in our series on the 17 Le Corbusier buildings added to UNESCO's World Heritage list, Australian photographer Benjamin Hosking shares new images of Capitol Complex in Chandigarh – the Indian city that gave the architect a chance to test his Modernist theories on a grand scale (+ slideshow).

 
 

Dezeen's latest Pinterest board celebrates Olympic design

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To celebrate the 2016 Olympics kicking off in Rio this weekend, we've pinned the most popular Olympic and Paralympic design ever featured on Dezeen to a new Pinterest board. Highlights include the controversial Tokyo 2020 stadium, Team GB 2016 sports kits designed by Stella McCartney and a BMW-designed racing wheelchair for Paralympic athletes.

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Reza Aliabadi's Opposite House in Toronto is split down the middle

Canada-based architect Reza Aliabadi has completed a home made up of vastly different halves at a lakefront site on the outskirts of Toronto (+ slideshow).

 
 

Fold-out furniture and storage solutions transform Silvia Allori's home into a studio

Architect Silvia Allori has overhauled a 1970s flat in Florence to create her own  home and workspace, featuring furniture that folds down from the walls and a shiny gold curtain that hides mess (+ slideshow).

 
 

Brazilian apartment block by Arquitetura Nacional features a wall of sliding windows

Sliding windows make up the facade of this apartment building in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, allowing residents to expose their living spaces to the elements (+ slideshow).

 
 

Boy turns into a tree in James' Dear John music video

Music: a boy is seduced and then poisoned by a "beautiful mutant flower" that turns him into a tree and forces him to leave his girlfriend in Péter Vácz's video for James' Dear John track (+ movie).

 
 

Viu eyewear creates gallery-like space for its Vienna flagship store

An old bookstore has been stripped back to its concrete foundations to create a minimal space for Swiss eyewear brand Viu's first store in Austria (+ slideshow).

 
 
 
   
 
 

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