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Grafton Architects founders name eight projects that define their career so far

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In a Dezeen exclusive, Grafton Architects directors Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara – who have just been selected to curate next year's Venice Architecture Biennale – have listed the eight most significant projects of their career to date. More ›

 
 

American architects urge Trump to take action on climate in open letter

Photography courtesy of Flickr user Gage Skidmore

More than 250 American architecture practices have signed an open letter to Donald Trump ahead of the president-elect's inauguration on Friday. More ›

 
 

Airbus to test a flying car by end of 2017

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Airbus is planning to test self-piloted personal aircraft by the end of the year as a way of reducing traffic on inner-city roads. More ›

 
 

Snøhetta adds treetop cabin with stargazing net to Sweden's Treehotel

The 7th Room by Snohetta

Snøhetta has completed a treetop cabin for the Treehotel in northern Sweden, featuring charred-timber cladding and a suspended net for observing the Northern Lights. More ›

 
 

Impracticality drives tenants out of Jean Nouvel's Barcelona skyscraper

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Jean Nouvel's Torre Agbar skyscraper has been sold for the second time in just three years, with its site in Barcelona's emerging technology district struggling to hold onto tenants. More ›

 
 

Job of the day: designer at Studio Piet Boon

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Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a designer at Studio Piet Boon in Oostzaan, the Netherlands, which renovated a former office building in New York to create luxury apartments with a Dutch interiors aesthetic (pictured). More ›

 
 

AMO designs Prada catwalk as a series of interior scenes

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For Prada's Autumn Winter 2017 show, AMO divided the catwalk into a series of colourful interiors with beds and benches. More ›

 
 

Accessible Arizona home by Ibarraro Rosano is lifted above the desert landscape

Levin Residence in Arizona by Ibarraro Rosano

American studio Ibarraro Rosano Design Architects has elevated parts of this family dwelling off the parched ground in response to the client's request for no steps. More ›

 
 

ArcHive turns Californian carriage house into plywood-lined sewing studio

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San Francisco studio ArcHive's remodel of this 1900s structure into a workspace for a seamstress involved sheathing the walls and ceiling in birch plywood. More ›

 
 

Juventus FC faces fan uprising after launching minimal new logo

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Italian football club Juventus has unveiled its new crest, but the team's fans think the minimalist rebrand is an own goal. More ›

 
 

London's Surface Design Show returns for 2017

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Dezeen promotion: this year's Surface Design Show  will exhibit the latest materials in architecture and interior design at London's Business Design Centre from 7 to 9 February 2017. More ›

 
 

Farshid Moussavi to showcase construction details in Royal Academy summer exhibition

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For the first time in 249 years, construction drawings will be the focus of the architecture room at the Royal Academy of Arts' summer exhibition, which this year is curated by  Farshid Moussavi. More ›

 
 

"Herzog & de Meuron is easily the most influential practice of the last 20 years"

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Readers are debating how Herzog & de Meuron's revamp of Chelsea FC's London stadium holds up to previous stadiums by the Swiss firm in this week's comments update. More ›

 
 

Todd Bracher challenges typical home organisation for his Das Haus installation

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Todd Bracher has become the latest designer to create a contemporary living space at IMM Cologne, with an installation that "ignores the architecture and starts from the beginning". More ›

 
 

Grafton Architects chosen to curate Venice Architecture Biennale 2018

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Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, founders of Dublin-based Grafton Architects, have been named as curators for the 2018 edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale. More ›