Turkey's Syrian border wall | Cape Town villa | Rem on "tragic" cities

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Naked House and OMMX offer bare-bones affordable housing for London

Naked House by OMMX architects

British studio OMMX has teamed up with house-builder Naked House to develop an affordable housing model for London, offering homes stripped back to just their bare necessities. More ›

 
 

Turkey completes first phase of 900km wall along Syrian border

As Donald Trump prepares to build a wall between the USA and Mexico, Turkey has announced the completion of a three-metre high fortification along its border with Syria to prevent refugees and smugglers entering the country. More ›

 
 

Giles Pike Architects adds stepped glass extension to Victorian house in south London

Felsham Road by Giles Pike Architects

Giles Pike Architects has extended  this house in Putney, southwest London, using glass walls to flood the new basement living areas with natural light. More ›

 
 

Job of the day: landscape architect at Schmidt Hammer Lassen

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a senior landscape architect to join Schmidt Hammer Lassen at its studio in Shanghai, which revealed its  competition-winning designs for a new library in the city last year. More ›

 
 

UrbanAlps' 3D-printed Stealth Key is almost impossible to forge

3D-printed key

Swiss company UrbanAlps has devised a method for 3D-printing keys to make them almost unforgeable, because their teeth are hidden from view. More ›

 
 

Wingårdh transforms roofless freight depot into Malmö Market Hall

Malmö Market Hall by Wingårdh Arkitektkontor

Sheets of pre-rusted red steel  cover the new extension to a dilapidated freight depot in Malmö, which has been converted into a covered food market  by Swedish studio Wingårdh. More ›

 
 

Cover uses computer algorithms to design prefabricated dwellings

Prefab small dwelling by Cover

A technology-driven home-building company in California says it is "doing for homes what Tesla is doing for the car". More ›

 
 

"Biotech is the new digital" says MIT Media Lab founder

Nicholas Negroponte

Biotechnology is going to "govern the next decade of thought" at research institutions like the MIT Media Lab, says its founder Nicholas Negroponte. More ›

 
 

Mountainside villa by SAOTA frames Cape Town's spectacular scenery

OVD 919 by SAOTA

A+Awards: South African studio SAOTA received a 2016 Architizer A+Award for this residence in Cape Town, which enjoys views of the area's dramatic rock formations. More ›

 
 

David Chipperfield leaves Driade after just two years as artistic director

British architect David Chipperfield has stepped down from his position as artistic director at Italian furniture brand Driade, and has been replaced by a "creative committee". More ›

 
 

Jamie Fobert's cliffside extension to Tate St Ives nears completion

Tate St Ives 2017

Work is almost complete on a sunken extension to the Tate's seaside art gallery in St Ives, Cornwall, which is set to open to the public later this year. More ›

 
 

Cities are "deeply tragic" says Rem Koolhaas

Architects have lost control of city design according to Rem Koolhaas, who says the gap between the profession's rhetoric and the reality is wider in Italy than anywhere else. More ›