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Mami House is a "mini bunker" built for a family on a very tight budget

Mami house by NOArquitectos LDA

Faced with the difficult task of delivering a family house for less than €100,000, Portuguese architect José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira designed this cuboidal concrete property. More ›

 
 

Banksy takes aim at Brexit with latest mural

Banksy Brexit wall mural in Dover

A mural by street artist Banksy has appeared in the English town of Dover, showing a worker chipping a star away from the European Union flag. More ›

 
 

BIG Time film documents Bjarke Ingels' gruelling rise to stardom

Bjarke Ingels reveals the demands of being one of the world's most successful architects, and its impact on his personal life and health, in the new documentary BIG Time. More ›

 
 

Idee Architects updates house on Vietnamese citrus farm with pavilion-like living space

Idee Architects has modernised a traditional Vietnamese farmhouse for a large family, adding a glass and steel structure that overlooks orchards and the Ba Vì mountain range beyond. More ›

 
 

Job of the day: architect at Hopkins Architects

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for an architect in London to join Hopkins Architects, the firm behind the Velodrome for the London 2012 Olympic Games. More

 
 

Flat-pack Lumber table is made entirely from cardboard

Lumber side table by designstudio PESI at Milan design week

Seoul-based studio PESI has designed a side table using planks of cardboard that have the appearance of wood. More ›

 
 

Grove of trees shades hillside Costa Rican house by Carazo Arquitectura

Murray Music Hous by Carazo Arquitectos

Costa Rica studio Carazo Arquitectura has completed a concrete residence that sprawls across the summit of a hill and steps down the slope into a canopy of vegetation. More ›

 
 

Simon Astridge stacks shipping containers to create backyard London office

UK architect Simon Astridge has used shipping containers, exposed plasterwork and clay lighting to create the offices  and showroom for a London tile manufacturer. More ›

 
 

ISA creates hybrid housing complex for gentrifying neighbourhood in Philadelphia

Folsom Powerhouse by ISA

The massing for this residential development by US architecture firm ISA was driven by its varied types of living units, from apartments and duplexes to three-storey townhouses. More ›

 
 

Electric wallpaper connects speakers, lights and fans in installaton by UM Project and Flavor Paper

Flavor Paper x UM Project

Lines of conductive ink thread between the protruding speakers and light boxes that form this interactive wall display, designed by UM Project and Flavor Paper. More ›

 
 

FOG Studio's Cooley Landing centre provides facilities for Bay Area wetland reserve

Cooley Landing Education Center by FOG Studio

A+Awards: California firm FOG Studio worked with the residents of East Palo Alto to design this bayside community centre and exhibition space, another winner at the 2016 Architizer A+Awards. More ›

 
 

Soft-toned installation combines designs by Ladies & Gentlemen and SP01

Ladies & Gentlmen x Sp01 exhibition in NYC

Products by Brooklyn-based Ladies & Gentlemen Studio are on display alongside furniture by new Australian design brand SP01 at a pastel-coloured installation in New York. More ›

 
 

Seymourpowell demos VR software for collaboratively designing cars

VR Car design by Seymourpowell

London studio Seymourpowell's virtual-reality tool for automotive design allows people in various locations around the world to work together in real time. More ›