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Architecture Interiors Design News Jobs Watch Store       Eduardo Souto de Moura transforms Portuguese farming village into luxury retreat Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura has helped to revive a former farming village in the Alentejo region as a high-end hotel featuring whitewashed interiors and original vaulted ceilings. More ›     Ten thousand IKEA refugee shelters left unused over fire fears, United Nations admits The United Nations High Commission for Refugees has mothballed 10,000 of IKEA's award-winning refugee shelters  over concerns about the product's vulnerability to fire. More ›     Atelier Swarovski Home collaborates with Aldo Bakker and Tomás Alonso for second collection The latest Home range from Swarovski includes bottle stoppers, polygonal paperweights, and marble trays decorated with slices of brightly coloured crystal. More ›     This week, safety issues with IKEA's refugee shelters emerged and Turkey built a Syrian border wall This week on Dezeen, Turkey completed phase one of its Syrian border wall and IKEA revealed that deployment of its award-winning refugee shelters has been put on hold due to safety risks. More ›     CCY Architects uses weathering steel and locally quarried stones for Colorado ranch US firm CCY Architects has divided this low-slung Colorado home into private and public zones, encasing the former within weathering-steel boxes that define the property's layout. More ›     Leers Weinzapfel completes America's first cross-laminated timber academic building The University of Massachusetts Amherst's new design school is the first academic building in the US to have a structural frame made of cross-laminated timber, according to its architects Leers Weinzapfel Associates. More ›     IM Pei's Grande Louvre receives AIA 25-year award The American Institute of Architects has honoured IM Pei's renovation of the Musée du Louvre in Paris with an award during the organisation's national convention, the same week that the Chinese-American architect is celebrating his 100th birthday. More ›     MIT Self-Assembly Lab's Rapid Liquid Printing technology produces furniture in minutes A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a 3D printing method that is considerably faster and can work at a much larger scale than current processes. More ›     Postmodern architecture: Walt Disney World Dolphin and Swan Hotels by Michael Graves With the AIA 2017 conference currently taking place in Orlando, we've reprised our series on postmodern architecture and design for a one-off special, spotlighting an iconic pair of buildings in the Florida city: Michael Graves' colourful hotels for Disney World. More ›     Competition: win a book filled with over 250 mobile architecture designs Dezeen is giving three readers the chance to win a copy of Mobitecture: Architecture on the Move, a book profiling structures that roll, slide and even float across water. More ›     10 homes from Dezeen's Pinterest boards that take mezzanines to new heights This week we've found 10 homes from our Pinterest boards that feature space-maximising mezzanines, including a Russian residence with elevated net hammocks  and a lofty extension in a Parisian apartment. More ›     Campana brothers create tile collection based on Brazilian gemstones The Agate gemstone commonly found in Brazil provided the inspiration for these handmade tiles, designed by Fernando and Humberto Campana for Italian brand Bisazza. More ›     Ma Yansong invites architecture students to apply for 2017 MAD Travel Fellowship Dezeen promotion: Beijing architecture studio MAD  is calling for students to apply for its travel fellowships, allowing them to research architecture in countries all around the world. More ›       Follow us     Forward this newsletter to a friend You have received this because you are subscribed to Dezeen Daily. Unsubscribe     Contact us | Submit a story | Advertise