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View online     Timber walls disguise secret spaces within tiny Pavilion House in Portugal Andreia Garcia Architectural Affairs and Diogo Aguiar Studio have hidden a bathroom, bed, and kitchen within the walls of this timber-clad holiday home in Guimarães, Portugal. Read more ›   "The most destructive thing is to demolish a building" says Nicholas Grimshaw We should be wary of "handbag architecture", design buildings that are reusable, and embrace micro homes says RIBA Royal Gold Medal 2019 winner Nicholas Grimshaw. Read more ›   MVRDV designs Albania's tallest building with pixellated facade Construction has started on a skyscraper in Tirana designed by Dutch firm MVRDV, set to feature a facade with a pixellated map of Albania at its centre. Read more ›   10 houses with weird and wonderful floor plans Most houses are designed with regular, rectangular-shaped floor plans. Here are 10 designs that ignore convention and are instead shaped like sausages, stars and even eyeballs. Read more ›   Part W invites architects to create alternative all-female Royal Gold Medal winners list Women's action group Part W is crowdsourcing suggestions of worthy women to create an all-female alternative to the predominately male RIBA Royal Gold Medal winners list. Read more ›   "Instead of 15 Clerkenwell Close, let's knock down some old stuff" It would be better to pull down some of London's Georgian terraces than demolish Amin Taha's stone-framed housing block, says Sean Griffiths. Read more ›   Boxx Creative looks to outdoors for design of Italy's Albergo Miramonti hotel The scenic landscape of a small town in northern Italy informed the interiors of this hotel, which London-based studio Boxx Creative has given a contemporary overhaul. Read more ›   Gio Ponti exhibition at Musée des Arts Décoratifs examines his six-decade career An exhibition celebrating the career of Gio Ponti is on show at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, featuring reconstructions of some the architect's best-known interiors. Read more ›   Trace Architecture Office completes coffee processing facility and hotel in China Beijing-based architecture studio Trace Architecture Office has completed the Xinzhai Coffee Manor complex in the Yunnan Province, China, which processes coffee from the surrounding hills and is a hotel for visitors to the area. Read more ›   Sky Trees tower proposed for Los Angeles takes cues from redwoods and Marilyn Monroe Australian firm Koichi Takada Architects has unveiled a slatted timber tower for Los Angeles, featuring a splayed bottom that draws on Marilyn Monroe's "flying skirt" moment. Read more ›   Dezeen Weekly features a brutalist home in Bali and a skyscraper in Dubai The latest edition of our newsletter Dezeen Weekly features a concrete house set within rice fields in Bali and the 550-metre-tall Burj Jumeira. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly › Read more ›   Seven key projects by Serpentine Pavilion architect Junya Ishigami Who is Junya Ishigami? Here's a look at seven significant projects by the Japanese architect, who has just been announced as designer of the Serpentine Pavilion 2019. Read more ›   Amazon scraps plans for New York City HQ2 Amazon has cancelled plans to bring its HQ2 headquarters to New York's Long Island City, following a major backlash from local politicians. Read more ›   Tour BigPixel's interactive 195-gigapixel image of Shanghai Our latest captioned movie explores a 195-gigapixel panoramic image of Shanghai, created by Chinese technology firm BigPixel. Read more ›   Lyons Place by Farrells set to be London's first housing to accept drone deliveries A housing block by architecture studio Farrells, currently under construction in west London, is aiming to be the first housing in the city to accept delivery of packages by drone. Read more ›   Jack Rose is a grungy "tropical themed" restaurant in Montreal A beam inscribed with "welding body repairs" is left exposed in this Montreal restaurant, designed by locally based Ivy Studio, as a nod to its former use as an auto body shop. Read more ›   Studio In2 plays with proportions inside Nancy's Big Apartment in Taipei Full-height partition walls and tall furnishings exaggerate a sense of space in this apartment in Taipei, which has been revamped by Studio In2. Read more ›   Architecture | Interiors | Design | Technology | Jobs           You have received this because you are subscribed to Dezeen Daily. Unsubscribe | Forward to a friend Dezeen Limited, 8 Orsman Road, London N1 5QJ, UK Contact us | Submit a story | Advertise