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Stacked shipping containers house bedrooms at Vietnam hostel by TAK Architects

Ccasa Hostel by TAK architects

Brightly painted shipping containers are stacked one on top of the other to house bunk beds at this hostel in Nha Trang, which also features aerial bridges and giant communal hammocks. More ›

 
 

Pioneering designer Lella Vignelli dies aged 82

Lella Vignelli

Lella Vignelli

Italian designer Lella Vignelli, who together with husband Massimo formed one half of the "first couple of modern design", has died aged 82. More ›

 
 

Job of the day: product design professor at Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Dezeen Jobs architecture and design recruitment

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a full-time professor in product design at Minneapolis College of Art and Design (pictured). Browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.

 
 

Dezeen's top 10 movies of 2016

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Dezeen's videos received over 30 million plays in 2016. For our review of 2016, studio director Ben Hobson has selected the 10 that sum up the year, including our interview with Bjarke Ingels at the opening of this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion  and our video tribute to the late Zaha Hadid. More ›

 
 

Office Project transforms Beijing factory into skylit artist's home and studio

Hall within cloud-Art studio of Xu Hongquan

A former factory in Beijing has been overhauled to create a studio and home for a calligraphy artist, featuring bright white galleries and a sloping roof with stepped windows. More ›

 
 

Ziiiro's latest watch is inspired by the phases of the moon

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The Lunar watch by Hong Kong-based brand Ziiiro, which tells the time with light and dark segments, is now available to purchase from Dezeen Watch Store. More ›

 
 

Fins of metal mesh and concrete shield Tel Aviv school of entrepreneurship from the sun

The Adelson School of Entrepreneurship

Rows of metal sun louvres slotted between structural concrete fins help to shade the glazed facade of this university building near Tel Aviv by local architects David S Robins and Dan Price. More ›

 
 

Cantilevered boxes form lakeside Minnesota cabin by Salmela Architect

Hyytinen by Salmela Architect

This rustic dwelling by American studio Salmela Architect consists of stacked boxes with dark grey wood walls and white-trimmed windows. More ›

 
 

Dezeen's top 10 Instagram posts of 2016

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Next up in our review of 2016, social media editor Trudie Carter looks back at the 10 most liked images on Dezeen's Instagram account, ranging from a tiny garden pavilion in the UK  to Calatrava's soaring transit hub in New York. More ›

 
 

Final call for architecture students to apply for SCI-Arc's 2017 masters programme

Southern California Institute of Architecture

Dezeen promotion: The Southern California Institute of Architecture  has put out a final call for architecture students to apply to its masters programme in Los Angeles, starting in autumn 2017. More ›

 
 

Drones offer fly-through preview of Herzog de Meuron's Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg fly through Kai Heuser architecture video

For those who can't wait for the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg to open next month, creative agency Jung von Matt has released an interactive movie tour of the building filmed by drones. More ›

 
 

New EU headquarters and the UK's house of the year feature in this week's Dezeen Mail

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The unveiling of the European Union's new Brussels headquarters and the opinion-splitting "house of tricks" that was named UK house of the year feature in this week's issue of Dezeen MailSubscribe to our newsletters ›

 
 

Competition: win a copy of MAD's first monograph signed by founder Ma Yansong

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Dezeen has teamed up with MAD Architects to give away five signed copies of a book overviewing the firm's past, present and future work. More ›

 
 

Dezeen's top 10 interiors of 2016

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The best interior design projects of the year, as selected by US editor Dan Howarth for our 2016 review, include a London apartment for a pair of film directors and a heart clinic lined in cork. More ›