MVRDV's grass-covered housing | V&A plywood exhibition | Muji hotel

Latest architecture and design news from Dezeen.

Architecture Interiors Design News Jobs Watch Store       Tilted red tower marks entrance to Polish war museum by Kwadrat An angled tower wrapped in red concrete panels and glazing contains the entrance to this second world war museum, which is mostly housed beneath the surface of a public plaza in the Polish city of Gdansk. More ›     This week, BIG completed a war museum beside a Nazi bunker This week on Dezeen, BIG completed a second world war museum next to a German-built bunker in Denmark and a replica of the Parthenon was constructed on a Nazi book-burning site using 100,000 forbidden titles. More ›     Brussels-based designer Alain Gilles  took cues from Nordic design to create this minimal foosball table, designed to look good in any room. More ›     Leroy Street Studio lifts Hamptons house above the water on stilts This cedar-clad villa in the Hamptons designed by New York City architects Leroy Street Studio is raised on timber pilotis to anticipate flooding. More ›     Muji to open hotels in China and Japan Japanese retailer Muji  is set to open hotels in Shenzhen, China and Tokyo, Japan, which will be styled with the minimalist brand's furnishings and products. More ›     David Rockwell shares photographs of detailed theatre set models New York architect David Rockwell's models of his flamboyant set designs for Broadway shows and movies, from Hairspray to Team America, are documented in these photographs. More ›     Textiles are a "simple, smart material" says Kvadrat Soft Cells design director Kvadrat Soft Cells design director Jesper Nielsen explains the advantages of the three-dimensional textile panel system his team is developing in this movie Dezeen filmed for Kvadrat in Copenhagen. More ›     V&A exhibition charts the rise and fall of humble plywood The social history of plywood – as an innovator in the furniture and transport industries, and a maligned everyday material – is explored in a new exhibition at London's V&A museum, which opens this weekend. More ›     MVRDV unveils plans for Eindhoven housing with jagged grass-covered roofs Rotterdam studio MVRDV has unveiled plans for a residential tower complex in Eindhoven, featuring spiky plant-covered roofs and greenhouses. More ›     New York Wheel in jeopardy as construction halts indefinitely Work on a giant observation wheel planned for New York's Staten Island has ground to a halt, after a legal battle resulted in the firing of its contractor. More ›     10 homes that make clever use of lightwells to bring daylight in We've selected 10 popular projects from Dezeen's Pinterest boards that show how lightwells can be used to channel daylight down into parts of the home where windows are limited. More ›     Caruso St John uses spruce lumber boards to create design studio for Kvadrat Soft Cells Architecture firm Caruso St John has transformed a Copenhagen warehouse into a wood-panelled studio, where the Kvadrat design team can develop their range of acoustic panelling. More ›     BIG creates subterranean museum by carving channels into dune by Nazi bunker Danish firm BIG has built an "invisible museum" in Blåvand, Denmark, by cutting linear passageways out of the sand dune beside a bunker built by German forces during the second world war. 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