Tree House hotel | Milan launches from Tom Dixon and Paul Cocksedge

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Luciano Kruk staggers board-marked concrete holiday home across sandy dune

House in the Dune by Luciano Kruk arquitectos

This board-marked concrete holiday house by Luciano Kruk  steps over a sand dune in a coastal town near Buenos Aires, offering its summer residents views of a pine and acacia forest beyond. More ›

 
 

Paul Cocksedge mines the floor of his studio for latest furniture collection

After being evicted from his studio to make way for a new property development, London designer Paul Cocksedge reacted by excavating material from the floor to produce a new series of furniture. More ›

 
 

Bronze balconies project from trio of brick housing blocks by Alison Brooks Architects

Ely Court by Alison Brooks Architects

Balconies with bronze frames break up the brick exterior of these three housing blocks in northwest London by Alison Brooks Architects  – a finalist for this year's Mies van der Rohe Award. More ›

 
 

Stacked boxes form Bengo Studio's towering Tree House hotel in rural China

Timber-clad rooms are stacked vertically and rotated around a spiral staircase to form this hotel in China's Anhui province, treating guests to 360-degree views of the surrounding tree-covered mountains. More ›

 
 

Job of the day: architect at UNStudio

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for architects of various levels to join UNStudio's Amsterdam office, which completed its first building in Belgium last year  (pictured). More ›

 
 

Tom Dixon explores "futuristic optics" with lighting launches in Milan

British designer Tom Dixon will launch several new lighting collections at Milan design week, including the highly polished Cut, which casts a kaleidoscopic reflection when switched on. More ›

 
 

Verdant garden with white marble paths tops renovated Mexican home by Zeller & Moye

Casa Verne by Zeller & Moye

Architecture firm Zeller & Moye has outfitted an old residence with a sprawling rooftop garden, serving as a getaway within a crowded neighbourhood in the Mexican capital. More ›

 
 

Arqmov Workshop converts Mexico City auto shop into retail centre with patterned facade

Triangulo Corona by Arqmov Workshop

Mexican architecture studio Arqmov Workshop has overhauled a V-shaped industrial building by adding a patterned facade, windows that angle outward and a prominent entrance on the pointy corner. More ›

 
 

ASH NYC adds pops of pink to Dig Inn Boston restaurant

Dig Inn Boston interior by ASH NYC

Pink accents contrast the pale palette that US firm ASH NYC has used for the interior of this farm-to-counter restaurant in Boston. More ›

 
 

No-To-Scale imagines Trump's wall as a 1,954-mile-long dinner table

No-To-Scale imagines Trump's wall as a 1,954-mile-long dinner table

Malaysian design office No-To-Scale Studio has issued a satirical proposal to President Trump, suggesting a radical means of representing the US-Mexico border: a 1,954 mile-long dining table. More ›

 
 

Replica of artefact destroyed by ISIS announced as London's next Fourth Plinth installation

News: Fourth Plinth announcement

The next sculpture to be erected on the Fourth Plinth in London's Trafalgar Square will be a winged bull by artist Michael Rakowitz, which is based on an ancient Iraqi artefact destroyed by Islamic militant group ISIS. More ›

 
 

Brooks + Scarpa recycles cardboard tubes and paper for Los Angeles Aesop store interior

Reclaimed cardboard tubing from fabric rolls used by the nearby fashion district line the walls of this Los Angeles store for skincare brand Aesop. More ›

 
 

"Captures my attention and imagination in a way I can't quite explain"

A conceptual New York skyscraper, imagined as "the longest building in the world", had some readers exercising their imagination in this week's  comments update. More ›

 
 

Denmark to get its first purpose-built architecture school

Adept architecture school

A trio of Danish architects has won a competition to design Denmark's first new-build  architecture school, a sprawling campus on the outskirts of Aarhus. More ›