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CCPM Arquitectos slots skinny corrugated-metal home into dense Buenos Aires neighbourhood

PH Lavalleja by CCPM Arquitectos

This small and narrow townhouse by Argentinian practice CCPM Arquitectos is slotted into a gap in a tightly packed neighbourhood in Buenos Aires. More ›

 
 

Joseph Grima to be named as new Design Academy Eindhoven creative director

Joseph Grima has been appointed creative director of Design Academy Eindhoven, Dezeen understands. More ›

 
 

Philippe Malouin aimed to create "three-dimensional sketches" with experimental Hem installation

Study for Screens by Philippe Malouin for Hem

London designer Philippe Malouin explains how he spent a week making a host of experimental room dividers for Hem in this movie Dezeen filmed in New York for the Swedish design brand. More ›

 
 

Macdonald Wright models Kentish country house on traditional hop kilns

Caring Wood by Macdonald Wright

Rooms topped with chimney-like roofs surround a secluded courtyard to from this house  in Kent, England, which takes its angular form and russet colouring from the area's hop-drying oast towers. More ›

 
 

Job of the day: studio assistant for Marc Newson

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a studio assistant to join the London studio of Marc Newson, who recently revamped Louis Vuitton's iconic trunks in bright colours. More ›

 
 

EFFEKT unveils spiralling tower and treetop walkway near Copenhagen

The Treetop Experience by EFFEKT

Architecture studio EFFEKT has released plans for a 600-metre-long treetop walkway  connected to a spiralling observation tower with 360-degree views over the forest canopy of Haslev, Denmark. More ›

 
 

Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple was the "first expression" of modern architecture

Unity Temple by Frank Lloyd Wright

We're continuing our look back at Frank Lloyd Wright's most important projects, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the American architect's birth last week. Next is Unity Temple, the Prairie-style concrete church that he considered to be his first contribution to modern architecture. More ›

 
 

Drones stalk visitors to Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei's Park Avenue Armory installation

Herzog and Ai Weiwei at Park Avenue Armory

The movements of visitors navigating this installation, by architects Herzog & de Meuron and artist Ai Weiwei, are tracked by drones and played back to them – in a comment on surveillance in public spaces. More ›

 
 

15 highlights from this year's Royal College of Art MA Fashion show

As voters took to the polls last week for the UK's general election, the Royal College of Art's MA fashion students were putting on their end-of-year show at an old studio in east London. Design reporter Alice Morby picks her highlights from the evening's catwalk show, installations and performance pieces. More ›

 
 

First Labour MP in London's Kensington is a design writer who plans to fight gentrification

Emma Dent Coad

Emma Dent Coad, the Labour Party politician who claimed a surprise election victory in the UK's richest constituency, is a design writer and architecture historian known for campaigning against gentrification. More ›

 
 

"Game changer" Dezeen Hot List named best digital content idea at BSME awards

Dezeen's managing editor Olivia Mull has picked up a prestigious industry award for Dezeen Hot List, which was named Best Content Idea – Digital at the BSME Talent Awards 2017. More ›

 
 

Edmonds + Lee creates white Switchback House for sloped street in San Francisco

Switchback House by Edmonds + Lee

The founders of US firm Edmonds + Lee Architects designed this urban dwelling for themselves, including a bright white facade, a slanted roof and retractable glass walls. More ›

 
 

ABC Carpet & Home showcases new rug collection in an underground cave

Dezeen promotion: American home design retailer ABC Carpet & Home has photographed its latest collection of rugs in upstate New York's Howe Caverns. More ›

 
 

"The Iceberg" housing in Aarhus becomes a playground for penguins in new animation

Penguins slide and somersault down the sloping rooftops of a popular Aarhus housing complex in this animated movie, created by French film studio 11h45. More ›