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Diamond-shaped latticework covers Victoria Gate shopping centre by Acme

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London firm Acme has completed a shopping centre in Leeds, England, featuring a white latticed concrete facade and an interior modelled on old-fashioned arcades.

 
 

Job of the day: designer at rAndom International

Dezeen Jobs architecture and design recruitment

We're launching job of the day, your daily dose of the best architecture- and design-based career opportunities, as chosen by Dezeen editors. Our first pick is for a designer at interactive design studio rAndom International, which installed an experimental Rain Room at the Barbican in London. Browse all of our other architecture and design roles on Dezeen Jobs ›

 
 

Fashion designer Richard Nicoll dies suddenly aged 39

Richard Nichol obituary

British fashion designer Richard Nicoll has died aged 39 following a suspected heart attack.

 
 

Bernardo Bader Architekten models larch-clad community centre on Austrian farmhouses

Village House Steinberg am Rofan by Bernardo Bader Architekten

This timber-clad community centre by Bernardo Bader Architects is set at the heart of a village in rural Austria, and designed to reference the surrounding gabled farmhouses.

 
 

Ultra-lifelike figure shows potential future of virtual reality

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Although it looks like a real woman, the ultra-lifelike figure in this music video is actually a digital model created using high-resolution 3D scans.

 
 

Void's thinnest ever timepiece arrives at Dezeen Watch Store

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Swedish brand Void has launched a watch that is only seven millimetres thick, which is now available to buy from Dezeen Watch Store

 
 

Wedge-shaped balconies front Carlos Marín's apartment block in Mexico City

Rodin 33 by Carlos Marin

Each apartment in this crisply detailed concrete and glass block in Mexico City features a full-width balcony lined with sliding glass doors.

 
 

Victorian home in Arkansas receives rectilinear annex by deMx

Werner Carriage House by deMx architecture

Arkansas studio deMx Architecture took cues from historic architecture while designing this two-storey modern addition to a local house.

 
 

Herman Miller updates iconic Aeron office chair

Herman Miller Aeron Chair

Herman Miller has unveiled a new version of its best-selling Aeron chair, which has been fine-tuned to make it more responsive to different body types.

 
 

10 of the most bizarrely photographed architecture projects

House of Parties by Pitsou Kedem

Juergen Teller got everyone's attention when he posed naked on a donkey, but he isn't the only one presenting unconventionally shot architectural photography. We put a spotlight on 10 of the most bizarrely shot projects.

 
 

Trump's Mexican border wall envisioned as Barragán-inspired pink barrier

The Prison-Wall by Estudio 3.14

Mexican firm Estudio 3.14 has visualised the "gorgeous perversity" of US presidential candidate Donald Trump's plan to build a wall along the countries' border.

 
 

This week's Dezeen Mail features Yves Behar's self-rocking crib and Apple's new London store

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Apple's new central London store by Foster + Partners features in this week's edition of Dezeen Mail, along with a smart crib for exhausted parents and Juergen Teller riding naked on a donkey. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail ›

 
 

"Building cannot be separated from the economics that drive construction"

Opinion: Mimi on Lisbon

Both Amanda Levete's MAAT museum and the Lisbon Architecture Triennale opened in the Portuguese capital earlier this month. Together they prove that architecture is physically shaped by its fiscal situation, says Mimi Zeiger in this week's Opinion.

 
 

Mobile Studio Architects installs giant flip-books in the forests of New Hampshire

Universal Play Machine flipbooks in the forest by Beam Camp

London-based Mobile Studio Architects has collaborated with students at a US summer camp to create a series of oversized flip-books that depict fictional forest tales.

 
 

Martijn van Strien launches print-on-demand laptop sleeves to cut overproduction

Makersleeve kickstarter sustainable sleeve design

Dutch designer Martijn van Strien's Makersleeve device cases are designed for production on-demand in any makerspace in the world.

 
 

See inside the kitchens of famous chefs with Miele's new film series

Chef Inspired Kitchens by Miele

Dezeen promotion: a space-saving white and wooden island forms the centre of the Modern Pantry restaurant founder Anna Hansen's kitchen, which is revealed in this series of films by Miele.

 
 
 
   
 
 

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