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Latest architecture and design news from Dezeen.
 
   
 
   
 
   
 

Estonia's wedge-shaped national museum opens on former Soviet airbase

A 350-metre-long glass block ramps up from the runway of a former soviet airfield near the city of Tartu to form the Estonian National Museum, which officially opens to the public today (+ slideshow).

 
 

This week, Toyo Ito's Taichung Opera House opened to the public

This week on Dezeen: Toyo Ito's cavernous opera house opened in the Taiwanese city of Taichung, while cultural buildings by Zaha Hadid Architects and Amanda Levete neared completion.

 
 

Raw Color turns office supplies into chromatic experiments for Aram Gallery exhibition

London Design Festival 2016: responsive paper shredders and fans that create moving colour effects feature in the Blend exhibition created by Dutch studio Raw Color at London's Aram Gallery (+ slideshow).

 
 

Ward + Blake uses salvaged wood and weathering steel to clad rustic Wyoming house

American firm Ward + Blake Architects has completed a residence and guest house in western Wyoming, which features rustic materials and sweeping views of the surrounding mountains (+ slideshow).

 
 

Robert Storey's pop-up Shoe Park for Everlane references Barbican conservatory

US set design studio Robert Storey has designed a plant-filled temporary retail space for online store Everlane in New York, influenced by the verdant conservatory at London's brutalist Barbican Estate (+ slideshow).

 
 

Alvar Aalto "changed the history of skateboarding"

Finnish Modernist architect Alvar Aalto accidentally invented the skateboard bowl with a 1930s swimming pool design, according to a US skateboarding magazine and a Finnish newspaper.

 
 

US job of the week: architect at 20th Century Fox

US JOTW Fox for Dezeen

Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an architectural job captain at film studio 20th Century Fox in Los Angeles. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.

 
 

10 of the most popular hotel rooms on Dezeen's Pinterest boards

From a bed cocooned in an ice vortex to a colourful suite in America's first gay boutique hotel, this week we're counting down Dezeen's most-pinned hotel room interiors from all around the world (+ slideshow).

 
 

Limited-edition Dezeen watch by Void is "stripped back until it's almost blank"

Dezeen Watch Store: a meeting in Hong Kong in 2008 led to the launch of the first Void watch on Dezeen and, shortly after that, the creation of Dezeen Watch Store. As we unveil our first limited-edition collaboration with the watch brand, founder David Ericsson explains how the elegantly minimal timepiece came about (+ interview).

 
 

"The housing crisis isn't a crisis, it's a design project"

Opinion: the UK's housing crisis is no accident, but has been carefully orchestrated to become a catch-all excuse for self-serving projects, argues Phineas Harper in his first Opinion column for Dezeen.

 
 

Daan Roosegaarde launches campaign to make Beijing a smog-free city

Beijing Design Week 2016: Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde has brought his huge smog vacuum cleaner to Beijing, and claims he can "make a whole city smog-free" (+ movie).

 
 
 
   
 
 

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