We've been reporting on the Stockholm Furniture Fair this week, where we spotted spherical glass lamps that appear to be steamed up, furniture made from sewn plywood and a collection of pentagonal wooden furniture. Read on for more architecture and design stories from the past seven days, plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week.
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Design duo GamFratesi was Guest of Honour at the Stockholm fair and installed a series of petal-shaped mobiles above the lounge area, while Japanese designer Jin Kuramoto launched wooden furniture made using shipbuilding techniques.
In Germany, architect Frank Gehry won a competition to design Berlin's tallest skyscraper, while in New York MoMA revealed plans for a temporary tower built from organically grown bricks at its PS1 gallery.
American furniture giant Haworth acquired Italian brand Poltrona Frau, giving it a majority stake in iconic brands including Cappellini, Cassina and Alias. Meanwhile, Finnish furniture brand Artek acquired the production facilities that were used by its co-founder Modernist architect Alvar Aalto to develop his signature bent wood furniture.
Rem Koolhaas' OMA completed its renovation of the architect's career-defining Kunsthal gallery in Rotterdam, but elsewhere the David Adjaye-designed Wakefield Market Hall in England was revealed to be at risk of demolition.
The most popular architecture stories of the week featured a raw concrete house in Alicante photographed as a crime scene and a prefabricated aluminium kiosk that opens and closes like a paper fan.
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