Alcantara Dialogues at Milan design week 2013
Dezeen promotion: Italian brand Alcantara hosted a series of discussions focussed on sustainability and climate change in collaboration with Connect4Climate and the World Bank in Milan last week. More
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Shenzhen Stock Exchange by OMA nears completion
Here are the latest photographs of the OMA-designed Shenzhen Stock Exchange, set to complete next month in the Chinese city (+ slideshow). More
How we 3D-printed our heads
Rather than publish our photos on the contributors' page of the Print Shift 3D-printing magazine we launched this week, we thought it would be fun to get ourselves scanned and printed out. Here's how we did it. More
BIG to design leisure district on Paris outskirts
News: Danish firm BIG has been selected to design an 80-hectare shopping and leisure complex with a park on its roof to serve a business district between two Paris airports. More
Dezeen Mail #148
Reactions to Milan design week and an old Mexican house extended into a cultural centre (above) lead this week's issue of Dezeen Mail, which also features the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
Lot 2, Jardins de la Lironde by Farshid Moussavi Architecture
London firm Farshid Moussavi Architecture has won a competition to design an apartment block in Montpellier with designs for a tower made from a stack of rippling floor plates. More
"Architectural education must change"
Opinion: in this week's column Sam Jacob argues that architectural education is in crisis and must become more accessible. More
OMA hired for Bordeaux masterplan
News: Dutch firm OMA is to masterplan a new urban development south of Bordeaux based around the extension of the local tram system. More
Calatrava "must pay" to replace leaking winery roof
News: the owners of the Santiago Calatrava-designed Ysios winery in Spain have launched legal action against the Spanish architect demanding he pays part of the £1.7 million needed to fix the building's leaky roof. More
Zephyr Sofa by Zaha Hadid for Cassina Contract
Milan 2013: Zaha Hadid launched a sofa based on natural rock formations at an exhibition of her new furniture designs in a former foundry last week. More
ST-House by PANDA
Japanese studio PANDA gave this house in Tokyo a glazed ground floor, then enclosed it in a high concrete-block wall. More
Living on the Edge by Arjen Reas
Thatching covers the walls as well as the roof at this house in Zoetermeer, the Netherlands, by Dutch architect Arjen Reas (+ slideshow). More
Manor House Stables by AR Design Studio
Architecture office AR Design Studio has converted an old stable block in Hampshire, England, into a three-bedroom family house (+ slideshow). More
Design of the Year winner is "boring", says Mail Online
News: Mail Online - the world's most popular news website and the winner of a design effectiveness award - has described the gov.uk site that yesterday won the Design Museum's Design of the Year award as "boring" and "basic-looking". More
Dutch city launches catalogue of architect-designed homes
News: Dutch city Nijmegen has launched a catalogue of affordable architect-designed housing kits for first-time buyers. More
String Lights by Michael Anastassiades for Flos
Milan 2013: London designer Michael Anastassiades presented lamps strung between walls on fine cables for Italian lighting brand Flos last week. More
Neut by Apollo Architects & Associates
This house in Tokyo by Apollo Architects & Associates has skylights in the roof and holes in the floor plates, allowing daylight to reach right down to the basement (+ slideshow). More
Clerkenwell Design Week 2013 exhibitors announced
Dezeen promotion: exhibitors have been announced for this year's Clerkenwell Design Week, taking place from 21 to 23 May in London. More
"Print on demand has completely changed the way we think about books"
In this movie made as part of our print-on-demand project, Blurb founder and CEO Eileen Gittins explains how new technology is transforming book and magazine publishing and we visit the Dutch factory where our Print Shift magazine is produced. More
Mas d’Enric Penitentiary by AiB and PSP
Concrete and stone buildings with sculpted green rooftops are arranged around generous courtyards at this prison complex near Tarragona, Spain, by AiB Estudi d'Arquitectes and Estudi PSP Arquitectura (+ slideshow). More