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Copenhagen arena by 3XN has an undulating wooden facade that rises up above the entrances

Danish firm 3XN has completed a large sporting and cultural arena in Copenhagen, featuring a glazed curtain wall wrapped in timber fins arranged to allow partial views of the interior. More ›

 
 

Lee Broom creates Christmas tree from 245 pendant lights inside The Shard

Lee Broom has collaborated with Turkish glassware brand Nude to create a 10-metre-tall Christmas tree made of 245 individual hand-blown glass pendant lights inside The Shard in London. More ›

 
 

Fahed + Architects create bulbous copper pavilion from old bedsprings at Dubai Design Week

Architecture studio Fahed + Architects repurposed bedsprings to create this temporary pavilion in the centre of the Dubai Design District. More ›

 
 

Alice Bleton's bunker-like capsule offers an escape from busy city life

Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Alice Bleton has designed a rooftop capsule to give city-dwellers a temporary retreat from their congested environment. More ›

 
 

Benthem Crouwel adds stripy tower surrounded by a moat to Amsterdam data centre

Benthem Crouwel adds stripy tower surrounded by a moat to Amsterdam data centre

Brightly coloured circulation spaces contrast with the slick metal exterior of this data centre in Amsterdam, which Benthem Crouwel Architects designed as a more attractive take on high-security infrastructural architecture. More ›

 
 

American modernist architect Albert C Ledner dies aged 93

Lenox Health Center by Albert C Ledner

Albert C Ledner, an apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright who helped proliferate modern architecture across the US, has died in New Hampshire aged 93. More ›

 
 

Historic homestead informs McLean Quinlan's stone house in Wyoming

British architecture firm McLean Quinlan has constructed a stone house in Jackson, Wyoming, modelled on a nearby 19th-century log cabin. More ›

 
 

Competition: win a set of Bookman bicycle lights and magnetic reflectors

Curved Light Set by Bookman

Dezeen is giving away five sets of rechargeable bike lights and magnetic reflectors that clip onto clothing, which are all designed by Swedish bicycle accessory brand Bookman. More ›

 
 

Fashion designer Azzedine Alaรฏa dies age 77

Tunisian-born fashion designer Azzedine Alaรฏa, who was known for his figure-fitting dresses, has died at the age of 77. More ›

 
 

Architectural Association accused of "destroying its own cultural mission" over redundancy plans

AA Bedford Square

Staff cuts could put the publishing and exhibitions operations at the Architectural Association school at risk, prompting outrage from leading architects and writers. More ›

 
 

Long Island house for a tailor is built using trees felled in hurricane

Greenfield Concrete Residence by Narofksy Architecture

New York-based Narofsky Architecture has built this house on a hurricane-damaged site in Long Island, with wooden cladding and furniture made from trees knocked down during the storm. More ›