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Architecture Interiors Design News Jobs Watch Store       Innauer-Matt Architekten's tiny Alpine chapel features a steep shingle-clad roof Five years after an avalanche destroyed a chapel belonging to a group of farmers in the Austrian alps, local firm Innauer-Matt Architekten has completed a replacement featuring a steeply pitched roof and concrete walls inset with flat stones. More ›     Grenfell Tower disaster exposes UK's "dangerous, ugly, cruel and uncaring" approach to social housing, say architects Architects have attacked the culture of cost-cutting and "value-stripping" in UK construction, which they believe contributed to the fatal Grenfell Tower fire. More ›     Last chance to buy Dezeen Book of Interviews for only £5 There are only three days left to buy Dezeen Book of Interviews for just £5! Order your copy now before the sale ends on Sunday 2 July. More ›     Gianni Botsford Architects' Corten steel extension hosts private art collection in central London Rust-toned frames cover the facade of this extension to a central London  home, which Gianni Botsford Architects designed to house its owner's private collection of photographs, prints and lithographs. More ›     Wearable pods let musicians compose and perform tracks as vibrations on your skin Royal College of Art graduate Marie Tricaud has designed a set of wearable modules that let live music be performed as "vibration loops and temperature melodies" on your skin. More ›     Job of the day: business development manager at OMA Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a business development manager to join OMA in Rotterdam, which recently designed an adaptable amphitheatre for this year's MPavilion in Melbourne. More ›     North Arrow Studio's Texas woodland residence takes cues from Mies van der Rohe Austin-based North Arrow Studio has raised this glazed house on stilts to offer its residents elevated views over tree tops in rural Texas, using the iconic Farnsworth House as a reference. More ›     Tacklebox creates Aesop Upper West Side in former dry cleaners A dry cleaners on Manhattan's Upper West Side has been converted into a store for cosmetics brand Aesop, for which Tacklebox Architecture has created display shelves with profiles of upside-down clothes hangers. More ›     Dezeen named best editorial and video team at online publishing awards Dezeen has won two more awards for online journalism, scooping the Editorial Team of the Year and the Best Use of Video categories at the Association of Online Publishers Awards in London last night. More ›     Andrea Mestre questions how office chairs should look and feel with rattan frame Influenced by the blurring of home and work environments, RCA graduate Andrea Mestre has designed an office chair made from rattan. More ›     LA officials unanimously approve George Lucas museum in "slam dunk" decision The museum proposed by filmmaker George Lucas could finally come to fruition now Los Angeles city officials have given it the go-ahead. More ›     ETH Zurich unveils plans for robot-built house in Dübendorf Researchers from Switzerland's ETH Zurich university will use robots and 3D printers  to design and build a pioneering three-storey house at a local research and innovation campus. More ›     Marazzi launches new porcelain tiles based on natural stone Dezeen promotion: the darkest known form of slate and prized Belgian rock Pierre Blue are among the inspirations for the latest tiles in Marazzi's Mystone range. More ›     Latest Dezeen Mail includes Kengo Kuma's plant-covered hotel and the new V&A extension Kengo Kuma's planned Eco-Luxury Hotel in Paris and AL_A's expansion of London's V&A museum feature in the latest edition of Dezeen Mail, our weekly newsletter.  Subscribe to Dezeen Mail ›     High living costs and Brexit are driving design graduates away from London More than two thirds of UK design graduates are leaving London due to the cost of living and uncertainly over the impact of Brexit on the creative industries, according to a survey conducted at this week's New Designers showcase. 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