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Klein Dytham's Ginza Place features latticed facade inspired by traditional Japanese crafts

Ginza Place by Klein Dytham

Over 5,000 aluminium panels are arranged to create the perforated facade  of this commercial building by Klein Dytham Architecture, which overlooks one of Tokyo's most iconic intersections. More ›

 
 

Competition: win furniture designed by Le Corbusier, Eero Saarinen and Achille Castiglioni

Aram Store competition

Dezeen has teamed up with Aram Store to offer our UK readers a chance to win  a lounge chair designed by Le Corbusier, a side table by Eero Saarinen  or a table lamp by Achille Castiglioni. More ›

 
 

Jon Danielsen Aarhus creates pine-clad mountain cabin in Norway for himself

Cabin by Jon Danielsen Aarhus

Architect Jon Danielsen Aarhus designed this pine-clad cabin in rural Norway for his own family, creating a large glazed living area with mountain and lake views. More ›

 
 

Shaker style is back again as designers celebrate "the first minimalists"

The Shakers are on the verge of extinction following the recent death of one of the sect's three surviving members. So why is their austere style having yet another revival? More ›

 
 

Job of the day: product designer at Studio Piet Boon

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a Netherlands-based product designer at Studio Piet Boon, whose recent projects include a villa in the French Alps (pictured) and a restaurant in a converted Belgian chapelMore ›

 
 

Lisa Merk's tactile mini urns give mourners one-on-one time to say goodbye

Tactile Perception urn by Lisa Merk Lund University

Lund University student Lisa Merk has designed a series of small urns that can be held during funeral ceremonies to reduce the anxieties of bereavement. More ›

 
 

Luxury penthouse to be installed in Herzog & de Meuron's Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

penthouse apartment is being built inside Herzog & de Meuron's recently completed philharmonic hall in Hamburg, at a cost of £6.9 million for an anonymous client. More ›

 
 

CN Tower architect Roger du Toit wins RAIC 2017 Gold Medal

Canadian architect Roger du Toit, part of the team behind Toronto's iconic CN Tower, has been posthumously awarded the highest honour bestowed by Canada's national architecture organisation. More ›

 
 

Old wooden barns inform Graham Baba's office building for Washington fruit company

Washington Fruit Produce HQ Graham Baba Architects

American firm Graham Baba Architects took cues from rural vernacular architecture while conceiving the headquarters for the Washington Fruit and Produce Company, situated in an area dotted with farms and warehouses. More ›

 
 

DeciBel proposes "lotus-like" theatre and cultural centre for Hanoi

Hanoi Lotus in Hanoi by deciBel

Australian architecture studio DeciBel has unveiled plans for a cultural complex in Hanoi, featuring six bulb-like structures to reference a floating lotus flower. More ›

 
 

New York design gallery founder denied entry into the US

Juan Garcia Mosqueda

The founder of New York design gallery Chamber has described the "dehumanising and degrading" ordeal of being turned away by US border patrol when he arrived in the country last week. More ›

 
 

Garden Bridge review finds "robust and informed decision-making" behind £185 million project

Virtual reality movie offers a preview of Thomas Heatherwick's Garden Bridge

The charity set up to deliver Thomas Heatherwick's £185 million Garden Bridge  has acted legally and responsibly, according to a report from the UK government. More ›

 
 

Dyson to open second UK campus as "a global hub for our research and development"

Embargoed: New Dyson campus

British engineer and inventor James Dyson has announced he is increasing his brand's UK presence tenfold with the opening of a second campus. More ›

 
 

Instagram users capture Desert X installations in California's Coachella Valley

The Circle of Land and Sky by Phillip K Smith III

The inaugural Desert X art festival is underway in Southern California, where visitors are using Instagram to share images of installations including an entirely mirrored cabin and a seemingly infinite tunnel into the earth. More ›

 
 

"Too alien from the original Nokia 3310"

Nokia is exerting its nostalgia power with the return of the iconic 3310 mobile phone, but are readers enthusiastic about owning a 17-year-old handset? Find out in this week's comments update. More ›

 
 

Doug Aitken installs entirely mirrored cabin in the Southern Californian desert

Mirage by Doug Aitken, an installation that is a part of an exhibition called Desert X, curated by Neville Wakefield

American artist Doug Aitken has built a small house-shaped structure, clad top-to-bottom in mirrors, in the desert outside Palm Springs. More ›