Filipe Pina + Maria Inês Costa add concrete extension to stone house in Portugal
A glass-fronted stairwell joins a craggy stone Portuguese house to its new concrete extension by Filipe Pina + Maria Inês Costa (+ slideshow). More
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This week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen we published a flying car, a drone designed to help save lives and a 3D printer hacked to create a tattooing robot (pictured). Read on for more architecture and design highlights, plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. More
New Pinterest board: architecture for death
Before heading out in your spooky costume, check out our selection of Halloween treats including the best cemetery, mausoleum and crematorium architecture from the pages of Dezeen.
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Studio Nienke Hoogvliet uses algae yarn to create Sea Me rug
Dutch Design Week 2014: this rug by Dutch designer Nienke Hoogvliet is woven using yarn made from algae harvested from the sea (+ slideshow). More
Istanbul Design Biennial returns for second instalment
Istanbul Design Biennial 2014: the second edition of Istanbul Design Biennial will open in Turkey tomorrow with a series of exhibitions, panel discussions and design tours of the city. More
Canberra's National Arboretum features "100 forests from around the world"
World Architecture Festival 2014: Australian landscape architect Perry Lethlean explains the concept behind the Canberra park named World Landscape of the Year 2014 in our next movie from World Architecture Festival. More
Job of the week: assistant professor of furniture design at Rhode Island School of Design
This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an assistant/associate professor of furniture design at Rhode Island School of Design, whose campus waterfront is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
Numen/For Use creates inhabitable "corporeal" installation with sticky tape
Lengths of transparent film and sticky tape wrap around the concrete columns of Paris gallery Palais de Tokyo to form a network of hollows and tunnels in an installation by Numen/For Use (+ slideshow). More
New Barcelona Design Museum merges decorative art and design collections
News: the Barcelona Design Museum will open in December with newly curated collections that represent Catalonian design history from the third century to present day (+ slideshow). More
Black glass facade mirrors scenery at south London home by Ian McChesney
Opaque glass cladding on this south London house by Ian McChesney reflects the brick and stucco facades of neighbouring Victorian properties and foliage from a park next door (+ slideshow). More
The Dezeen guide to contemporary cemeteries
Halloween is traditionally a day for honouring the dead, so today we're revisiting some of the best cemetery, mausoleum and crematorium architecture on Dezeen. More
Diller and Scofidio create "mischievous" leak inside Jean Nouvel's glass gallery
American architects Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio have created an installation inside the Fondation Cartier in Paris by Jean Nouvel, adding a "leak" in the ceiling with drops of water that trigger a series of reactions across two gallery spaces (+ slideshow). More
Restoration of Alvar Aalto's Viipuri Library wins 2014 Modernism Prize
News: the World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize for preservation of a modern landmark has been given to a Finnish committee responsible for restoring architect Alvar Aalto's Viipuri Library in Vyborg, Russia (+ slideshow). More
Bent Architecture's wooden extension screens a Melbourne home from neighbouring "McMansion"
The steeply angled roofs of a wooden pavilion and extension by Bent Architects will screen a family home in Australia from a "monster" development on an adjoining plot of land (+ slideshow). More
Nendo works with Japanese artisans to create bent-wire baskets
Japanese design studio Nendo has collaborated with Kyoto wire netting firm Kanaami-Tsuji to create a set of minimal basket containers (+ slideshow). More
CHROFI completes concrete and stone sheds for forestry workers
The concrete roofs of two agricultural sheds by Sydney studio CHROFI jut out of stone and gravel banks in a clearing cut into a forest in eastern Australia (+ slideshow). More
Using traditional crafts in design is not "sentimental" says Sebastian Cox
Interview: neglected techniques represent a new set of opportunities says Sebastian Cox, one of a number of young designers that are championing the revival of traditional crafts in the UK. More
Dominic Wilcox: "I'm deadly serious about being playful"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: playfulness is essential to creativity claims London designer Dominic Wilcox, who says that creatives should not "worry about what other people think" (+ movie). More
Original track: Bêtapé by Aimedeuxhaine
Bêtapé is a smooth, free-flowing electronica track by Lille producer Aimedeuxhaine.
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Work starts on Calatrava-designed Greek Orthodox Church on World Trade Center site
News: work has begun on a Greek Orthodox Church designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava to replace a building that was destroyed by the collapse of New York's World Trade Center buildings on 9/11. More