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Black House is a duplex apartment above a converted Victorian warehouse in Hackney

Simon Conder Associates has placed an extension clad in black-stained timber on top of a former warehouse in east London.

Simon Conder Associates has placed a prefabricated, black-stained timber extension on top of a former warehouse in east London, creating a new home for the designers whose studio occupies the old building. More ›

 
 

This week, Atelier Van Lieshout and Thomas Heatherwick both had projects scrapped

Two high-profile project cancellations made the headlines this week as Thomas Heatherwick's New York Philharmonic concert hall overhaul and Atelier van Lieshout's controversial sculpture at Musée du Louvre were both dropped. More ›

 
 

Prismatic visuals and floating beings feature in Björk's music video for The Gate

Icelandic musician Bjork's music video for The Gate, directed by Andrew Thomas Huang.

For the music video accompanying her latest single, Björk worked with long-time collaborators Andrew Thomas Huang and James Merry to create her vision of utopia.
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Parking garage extension forms home for architects Ensamble

Cyclopean House by Ensamble

To build their own home in the Massachusetts town of Brookline, the principals of Spanish firm Ensamble Studio prefabricated individual parts of the structure in Madrid and sailed them across the Atlantic to be assembled on site. More ›

 
 

Bureau V adds playful appendages to MINI Living Urban Cabin

Urban Cabin by Mini Living

New York studio Bureau V has attached a spiky-backed snug and a fabric-covered galley kitchen to a prototype micro home, which is on show in Brooklyn. More ›

 
 

10 buildings with windows that steal the limelight

Hidden openings, oversized portholes and apertures shaped like houses feature in this week's roundup of popular images from Pinterest, which showcases buildings that use windows as decoration. More ›

 
 

CetraRuddy's 45 Broad Street to become Lower Manhattan's tallest residential skyscraper

45 Broad Street by CetraRuddy

A filigree-patterned supertall tower under construction in Downtown Manhattan is set become the area's second tallest skyscraper behind One World Trade Center. More ›

 
 

Competition: win an Anglepoise + Paul Smith desk lamp

Paul Smith collaborates with Anglepoise on their iconic Type75 desk lamp

Dezeen has teamed up with British lighting brand Anglepoise to give six readers the chance to win a special-edition Type 75 Mini desk lamp, in a colour combination designed by Paul Smith. More ›

 
 

10 of the best collectible design pieces on show at PAD London

Design fair PAD is in London this week for its 11th edition. We've selected 10 stand-out pieces of limited-edition contemporary design from the show, including furniture covered in silk-worm cocoons and a chair that references ballet dancers. More ›

 
 

Universal Design Studio uses recycled aluminium to create sculptural entrance to Frieze London

The venue for the Frieze art fair in London this week features walls of pleated and folded aluminium that would otherwise have gone to waste. More ›