Shipping container house | Amazon's underwater warehouses | Brutalist library revamped

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Budi Pradono tops hillside house in Lombok with tilted shipping container

Budi Pradono Architects creates Clay House

A shipping container appears to be slipping away from the top of this house on the island of Lombok, designed by Indonesian architect Budi Pradono. More ›

 
 

Silicon Valley company Jawbone goes into liquidation

Jawbone, the technology company steered by designer Yves Behar, has gone into liquidation, and its assets are reportedly being funnelled into a new health startup. More ›

 
 

Sadiq Khan appoints David Adjaye, Alison Brooks and Sadie Morgan as design advocates for London

WAF shortlist

London mayor Sadiq Khan has appointed 50 architects and designers, including David Adjaye, Alison Brooks and Sadie Morgan, to work with local councils to improve the quality of the built environment across the capital. More ›

 
 

Job of the day: senior 3D designer at the Imperial War Museum

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a senior 3D designer at the Imperial War Museum in London, which was recently overhauled by Foster + Partners to create new first world war galleriesMore ›

 
 

Brutalist library in Chicago gets interior update by Woodhouse Tinucci

Regenstein Library renovation by Woodhouse Tinucci

US firm Woodhouse Tinucci Architects has spruced up a reading room in the University of Chicago's Joseph Regenstein Library, a 1970s building originally designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. More ›

 
 

Edmonds + Lee breaks tradition for gallery-like Remember House in San Francisco

Remember House by Edmonds + Lee

US studio Edmonds + Lee Architects has used voids, large windows and white-washed interiors to open up this San Francisco property, breaking away from the tightly packed "pancake-style" layout of its neighbours. More ›

 
 

Design of Mother Teresa's sari trademarked to combat "misuse"

Mother Teresa

The blue and white sari famously worn by recently canonised nun Mother Teresa has been trademarked to protect her reputation. More ›

 
 

Watch Balkrishna Doshi speak live at the Royal Academy annual architecture lecture 2017

Indian architect Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi reflects on 70 years of pioneering architectural projects in the Royal Academy of Arts' annual architecture lecture, which we streamed live via our Facebook page. More ›

 
 

Studio Gang's stacked-tube Hive installation opens in Washington DC

The Hive by Studio Gang

Chicago-based Studio Gang Architects has created a trio of cavernous chambers from stacked silver and magenta paper tubes inside the National Building Museum in Washington DC. More ›

 
 

Amazon files patent for underwater warehouses

Following its proposal for flying warehouses, online retailer Amazon has filed a patent that would see its depots submerged underwater, with items summoned to the surface by acoustic vibrations. More ›

 
 

"Brexit is an attempt to get out of European regulation. It's a crisis," says David Chipperfield

British architect David Chipperfield has claimed the UK's departure from the European Union will further erode city planning regulations at a time when they are needed most. More ›

 
 

Tristan Auer named Maison&Objet 2017 Designer of the Year

Dezeen promotion: interior architect Tristan Auer has been revealed as the latest Maison&Objet Designer of the Year, and will create a stand that will display his past projects for the September edition of the biannual Paris fair. More ›