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View online     Staggered floors overlook four-storey void at architect's house in Lisbon Architect Daniel Zamarbide worked with Leopold Banchini to design a pared-back Lisbon house with glass-walled rooms overlooking a full-height living space, as his own home. Read more ›   Five designs for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games As the countdown for next year's Tokyo 2020 Olympics continues, we have rounded up five standout designs for the much-anticipated summer Games, from Kengo Kuma's Olympic stadium to a duo of service robots by Toyota. Read more ›   Augmented reality takes museum-goers inside Rembrandt painting Visitors to the Mauritshuis museum can use their smartphone to experience Rembrandt van Rijn's The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp in augmented reality, thanks to Dutch design agency CapitolaVR. Read more ›   Casa Negra is designed to "be like a camera obscura" says Frida Escobedo Frida Escobedo explains how one of her first residential projects, Casa Negra, was influenced by the function of a camera obscura, in the third instalment of a series of short movies about the Mexican architect. Read more ›   AK-A creates two-tone interiors for Lollo's Atene restaurant in Athens Glossy green paint coats the bottom half of this bright white restaurant in Athens, which design studio AK-A has finished with deep red accents. Read more ›   Careers guide: Matt Gibberd reveals how he co-founded design-led estate agency The Modern House Matt Gibberd combined his passion for contemporary architecture with his editorial experience, to launch design-led estate agency The Modern House. He reveals how in this interview for the Dezeen Jobs careers guide. Read more ›   Algorithmic Couture aims to reduce fashion industry waste with digital customisation Research collective Synflux has developed a system of digitised couture that reduces the amount of fabric needed to make clothes by creating garments that exactly fit the wearer's body. Read more ›   Team Paul de Vroom + Sputnik completes pair of Dutch towers in Moscow Dutch House is a pair of brick apartment blocks in Moscow designed by Rotterdam studio Team Paul de Vroom + Sputnik to directly reference the architecture of the Amsterdam School. Read more ›   Serpentine Gallery tells Junya Ishigami to pay all staff working on this year's pavilion Japanese architect Junya Ishigami has agreed to pay all staff working on his design for the Serpentine Pavilion, following a row over unpaid internships at his studio. Read more ›   Tar-coated shingles cover Hudson Valley cottages by Thomas Phifer and Partners American architecture studio Thomas Phifer and Partners included a pointy chapel among the tiny black buildings that form this residence in a clearing in Upstate New York. Read more ›   New York mayor reveals plan to extend Manhattan shoreline in response to climate change New York City has revealed a proposal to redesign the "vulnerable" shoreline of Lower Manhattan, in order to make it more resilient to rising sea levels caused by climate change. Read more ›   Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games to deploy robots Robots made by Japanese automaker Toyota will be deployed across the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic sites to provide assistance to workers and attendees at the Games next year. Read more ›   Watch MIT's modular Mini Cheetah robot land a backflip Our new captioned movie shows MIT's "virtually indestructible" Mini Cheetah robot performing a host of athletic manoeuvres, including stretching, running and jumping. Read more ›   "There's Norway we could a-fjord to eat in this plaice" In this week's comments update, readers are having a whale of a time making puns about an underwater restaurant designed by Snøhetta. Read more ›   Norman Kelley preserves "layered history" inside revamped Notre store in Chicago US firm Norman Kelley has merged old and new elements inside the flagship store for clothing retailer Notre, which is housed inside a 113-year-old building in central Chicago. 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