Self-deploying house | 10 plywood innovations | Google Glass resurrected

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Christ & Gantenbein's concrete extension to National Museum Zurich photographed by Rory Gardiner

British photographer Rory Gardiner  took these shots of Christ & Gantenbein's angular concrete extension to the National Museum Zurich when it was bathed in late winter sunlight. More ›

 
 

Google Glass resurrected as a tool for hands-on workers

Following a two-year hiatus, the Google Glass augmented-reality headset has made a comeback, and is being targeted exclusively at businesses. More ›

 
 

Prefab buildings by Ten Fold Engineering build themselves in eight minutes

Our latest captioned movie features modular structures designed by Ten Fold Engineering, which can be transported anywhere on a lorry and self-deployed at the touch of a button. Watch more one-minute movies ›

 
 

Competition: win a book detailing digital fabrication projects across architecture and design

Fabricate

Dezeen is giving away five hardcover copies of Fabricate 2017: Rethinking Design and Construction, which brings together the best architecture and design projects involving digital fabrication. More ›

 
 

Iridescent soap bubbles inform lighting collection by Rosie Li

Bubbly Lights by Rosie Li

New York-based designer Rosie Li bunched together ball shapes to create her Bubbly series of rainbow-hued brass lights. More ›

 
 

Job of the day: studio and business manager for Yuri Suzuki

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a studio and business manager to join Yuri Suzuki's London studio, which installed giant pendulums in the courtyard of a Milanese seminary for this year's Milan design week. More ›

 
 

Meridian 105's Denver house features screens and shutters made of black wooden pallets

Meade Street by Meridian 105 Architecture

Screens made from black-painted wooden shipping pallets allow light to filter into this family house in Denver, Colorado, designed by local studio Meridian 105 Architecture. More ›

 
 

Un.Box Studio converts neglected stone building into progressive Austin hostel

Native Hostel in Austin, Texas, USA, by UN Box Studio

American firm Un.Box Studio has transformed historic structures in Austin into a high-design hostel that is meant to serve as an alternative to pricey boutique hotels. More ›

 
 

Daniel Arsham bases all-white Adidas trainers on archaeological artefacts

Daniel Arsham collaboration with Adidas

Snarkitecture's Daniel Arsham has collaborated with Adidas for the first time, on a pair of trainers designed to look like they were chipped away at during an archaeological dig. More ›

 
 

"Call us dull, call us sellouts, call us gentrifiers – just don't call us copycats"

Architects shouldn't be stifled by their distain for copying successful ideas, from Assemble's pop-up cinema to Shigeru Ban's cardboard structures, says Phineas Harper in his latest Opinion column. More ›

 
 

Louis Kahn's floating concert hall may go to scrap

Point Counterpoint II by Louis Khan to be scrapped

A stainless steel barge that American architect Louis Kahn  designed to host orchestral concerts will be scrapped at a Louisiana shipyard, unless it finds a new owner by the end of the month. More ›

 
 

"It's not a swastika it's a pinwheel"

Readers have been debating the shape of BIG's latest project, a subterranean second world war museum, in this week's comments update. More ›

 
 

10 of the most ground-breaking uses of plywood in architecture and design

ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2015/16

To coincide with the opening of an exhibition dedicated to plywood at London's V&A museum, we've rounded up 10 projects from the Dezeen archives that push the material to its limits. More ›

 
 

MAD unveils "extraterrestrial" campus for electric car brand Faraday Future

Chinese architecture studio MAD  has designed a sci-fi-influenced headquarters for Faraday Future, a new car company focussed on electric vehicles, in Northern California. More ›