Zaha Hadid says Tokyo stadium criticism is "embarrassing" for Japanese architects
News: Zaha Hadid has hit back at the Japanese architects criticising her Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadium design, describing them as "hypocrites". More
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Ceramiche Refin launches porcelain tiles based on prehistoric fossils
Dezeen promotion: Italian brand Ceramiche Refin has launched a porcelain tile collection based on the winning concept from its Create your Tile design competition. More
London launches design competition for another new Thames bridge
News: not content with progress on Thomas Heatherwick's controversial Garden Bridge, London is planning a second new pedestrian bridge near the Battersea Power Station development. More
Goko's House of Eight Gardens frames a variety of open-air courtyards
Eight glass-walled gardens offer views of greenery to the occupants of this minimally furnished house in Cuernavaca, Mexico, by architecture firm Goko (+ slideshow). More
Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar: Handkerchief chair by Massimo and Lella Vignelli
Next up in our alphabetical look at the history of chair design – the lightweight Handkerchief office chair designed by husband and wife team Massimo and Lella Vignelli in 1983. More
Concertina shutters shade the windows of Naud & Poux's Paris retirement home
Hinged shutters fold up and down over the windows of this monochromatic care home near Paris by French studio Naud & Poux (+ slideshow). More
LOHA's revamped Santa Monica bus shelters are blue discs on stilts
Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects has redesigned Santa Monica's bus shelters by developing a modular kit of parts that can be used to build an assortment of round blue canopies, supported on slender poles (+ slideshow). More
Rianne Koens’ stackable drawers function as cabinets, tables and stools
Istanbul Design Biennial 2014: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Rianne Koens stacked sets of different-sized wooden boxes on top of angled legs to form these furniture pieces. More
East London home by Mikhail Riches is "a big house that's been knitted back together"
Movie: architect David Mikhail explains how he transformed a typical 19th-century London house into a "great family home" with all of its "original dignity" in this movie produced by Living Projects. More
Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar: Garden Egg chair by Peter Ghyczy
The seventh entry in our A-Zdvent calendar is the Garden Egg chair by Hungarian designer Peter Ghyczy, which demonstrated new techniques for plastic production in the late 1960s. More
New Pinterest board: residential conversions
We've collected all kinds of residential conversions from the pages of Dezeen, from former warehouses and stables, to a transformed shophouse in Singapore and an old London post office, and added them to a new Pinterest board.
Sussex House by Wilkinson King Architects boasts cedar-clad walls and a ridged roof
This house in the English countryside by London firm Wilkinson King Architects features red cedar cladding and a folded roof designed to evoke the line of hills on the horizon (+ slideshow). More
Lee West launches collection of Modernist-inspired brass objects
The first collection from British designer Lee West's new brand features cylindrical brass items for the home. More
Max Cooper's Origins music video explores the emergence of life
Music: creative agencies Rabbit Hole and Blackbox mixed oily magnetic fluids with water to create an abstract representation of primordial life in this music video for UK producer Max Cooper. More
Garden annex by De Smet Vermeulen sits on the edge of an orchard
Belgian studio De Smet Vermeulen Architecten designed this angular timber-clad cottage to create a music room in the garden of a house it designed over ten years ago near the village of Sint-Martens-Latem (+ slideshow). More
Studio Nomad's mirror installation reflects fragments of forest at a Hungarian music festival
A harlequin pattern of mirrors enveloped a patch of Hungarian woodland in this installation created by Budapest-based Studio Nomad for a summer music festival (+ slideshow). More
Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar: Fauteuil Direction by Jean Prouvé
The letter F in our festive overview of iconic chairs is represented by French designer Jean Prouvé's Fauteuil Direction armchair. More
Sand dune-inspired kindergarten completed by Dorte Mandrup beside a Swedish beach
This beachside kindergarten in Sweden was designed by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter with a jagged timber form, intended to be reminiscent of a sand dune (+ slideshow). More
Moshe Safdie's huge greenhouse for Singapore's Changi airport gets underway
News: work has begun on architect Moshe Safdie's Jewel Changi Airport, which aims to "reinvent what airports are all about" by creating a shared public space under a glass dome with a massive waterfall and garden at its centre. More
This week on Dezeen
This week we've been reporting on the latest from Design Miami 2014, including Studio Job's "whacked and expressive" furniture pieces, a bike designed for urban commuters and a neon-tubed light installation (pictured). Read on for more architecture and design highlights, plus our featured track of the week. More