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Sigurd Larsen's Roof House features intersecting slanted roofs

The Roof House by Sigurd Larsen

This house in Copenhagen by Berlin-based Danish architect Sigurd Larsen features multiple pitched roofs angled in different directions to allow direct and indirect light to reach the interior. More ›

 
 

Take a tour of Clerkenwell Design Week's installations and exhibitions

Clerkenwell Design Week  is in full swing. Find out what exhibitions and installations there are to see in this short movie Dezeen produced for the London festival. More ›

 
 

Rammed-earth tower by De Gouden Liniaal Architecten overlooks the Maas river

Observation Tower Negenoord by De Gouden Liniaal Architecten

Earth, clay and gravel are compressed to form the walls of this observation tower designed by De Gouden Liniaal Architecten to offer views of a nature reserve spanning the Belgian-Dutch border. More ›

 
 

Royal College of Art launches masters degrees in environmental architecture and city design

Dezeen promotion: London's RCA has launched two new 15-month MA programmes in environmental architecture and city design starting in September 2017. More ›

 
 

"Designed in California" is the new "made in Italy" according to Design Museum exhibition

Skateboards, Snapchat Spectacles, an early Gay Pride flag and a self-driving car sit side by side in a new Design Museum exhibition that explores how California has become the new centre of the design industry. More ›

 
 

Job of the day: senior architect at MAD

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a senior architect to join MAD in Beijing, where the firm is close to completing its mountain-shaped Chaoyang Park Plaza tower complexMore ›

 
 

Ole Scheeren's pixellated MahaNakhon tower photographed by Hufton + Crow

MahaNakhon Tower by Buro Ole Scheeren

British duo Hufton + Crow visited Bangkok to capture these images of Thailand's tallest tower, which was designed by Ole Scheeren and features modular cutaways spiralling around its facades. More ›

 
 

Images of New York skyscraper by David Adjaye leaked

Wall Street Tower by David Adjaye

Renderings have emerged of The Wall Street Tower, a 61-storey skyscraper designed by British architect David Adjaye for Downtown Manhattan. More ›

 
 

Colony reacts to US political landscape with Lightness exhibition in New York

An illuminated alabaster totem pole and a marble disk that appears to balance on a neon string feature in New York design collective Colony's politically charged furniture and lighting installation. More ›

 
 

Zaha Hadid Architects' kitchen for New York condo building launched by Boffi

Boffi_Cove by Zaha Hadid Architects

Zaha Hadid Architects  has designed a customisable kitchen island for Italian brand Boffi, which is fitted in apartments of the firm's 520 West 28th project nearing completion in New York's Chelsea. More ›

 
 

IKEA could move more manufacturing to UK to avoid post-Brexit price hikes

IKEA is set to increase its production of furniture in the UK as a way to keep costs down following the country's decision to leave the European Union. More ›

 
 

Labour Party pledges to put creative industries at heart of UK's Brexit negotiations with dedicated manifesto

The UK's Labour Party has praised the nation's architecture and design sector, and promised to put the creative sector at the centre of Brexit negotiations if it wins next month's general election. More ›

 
 

Studio B wraps elevated Aspen home in zinc and glass

Zale Residence by Studio B

American firm Studio B faced challenging site conditions while conceiving this contemporary Colorado dwelling that sits atop a concrete plinth. More ›

 
 

"I want to dislike it because it's Heatherwick. But I love it"

The unusual windows of a new hotel opened as part of Heatherwick Studio's overhaul of a former grain silo building in Cape Town sparked a mixed bag of reactions in this week's  comments update. More ›

 
 

Arper showroom hosts exhibition of Brexit passport designs during Clerkenwell Design Week

Dezeen's Brexit passport competition shortlisted designs

The winning entry plus eight runners up in Dezeen's Brexit passport design competition will be on display at the London showroom of Italian furniture brand Arper this week, as part of Clerkenwell Design Week. More ›