Paolo Carlesso clads Italian family house with cement panels
This family home near Milan features a partially exposed steel and timber frame modelled on the historical rural farm buildings in the surrounding area. More
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Lee Broom to create pastiche department store inside empty shops for Milan exhibition
Milan 2015: London designer Lee Broom will transform a street of disused shops into a fake department store to present 20 new products in Milan next month. More
Japanese house hides a balcony and terrace behind tiered walls
A tall white wall wraps around the base of this house in Tsukuba City, Japan, screening it from the street and creating the illusion of a triple-level structure (+ slideshow). More
Richard Silver splices images of iconic buildings to show the passing of time
Photo essay: New York photographer Richard Silver travels the world shooting well-known buildings over the course of a single sunset and splicing the pictures together to create a single image – a technique he describes as slicing time. More
Wool pyramids form origami-inspired Bloom blanket
Brazilian designer Bianca Cheng Costanzo has created a woollen blanket from 180 triangles hand-sewn into tessellated pyramids (+ slideshow). More
Hernández Arquitectos' minimal white monastery features a concrete-clad bell tower
The bell tower of this monastery on the outskirts of Valencia features a ridged surface with a cross-shaped cut-out to indicate the buildings' use to passers by (+ slideshow). More
Philippe Malouin experiments with Caesarstone to create collection of planters
Milan 2015: London designer Philippe Malouin has formed a collection of geometric planters in a range of shapes, textures and colours using quartz surface material Caesarstone. More
New Pinterest board: cinemas
We've created a new Pinterest board filled with the best examples of movie theatres, screening rooms and multiplexes from the pages of Dezeen.
JMY Architects combines living and retail spaces on a narrow site in Busan
An apartment, community space and shop are accommodated in this skinny building squeezed onto a narrow plot in the South Korean city of Busan by local office JMY Architects (+ slideshow). More
Cartoon characters perform a disco ritual in Fever the Ghost's Source music video
Australian animator Felix Colgrave's music video for Fever the Ghost follows a cartoon man and his pet serpent who turn their home planet into a giant disco ball (+ movie). More
Triangular void connects a two-storey timber extension to a Melbourne bungalow
A sloped section of roof joins this timber-clad extension by Melbourne studio Julie Firkin Architects to the adjacent weatherboard house (+ slideshow). More
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Office with a sawtooth roof pays homage to a Dutch mill by Gerrit Rietveld
The jagged roof of this warehouse and office space in the Netherlands is designed to reference a 1950s weaving mill by Dutch architect and designer Gerrit Rietveld (+ slideshow). More
Yonoh turns energy company logo into a chair
Spanish design studio Yonoh has created a chair based on energy company Repsol's red, orange and white "sun" logo. More
Villa Wot is a brick cuboid punctured by different-sized windows
Dark brick cladding contrasts with the pale wood and plasterboard interior of this house in Oslo by local architecture office Narud Stokke Wiig (+ slideshow). More
This week on Dezeen
This week we reported on the production of Ikea's flat-pack refugee shelters, the design of this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (pictured) and plans for Europe's tallest skyscraper in the Alps. Read on to catch up with the latest architecture and design news, plus our track of the week. More
Penda creates landscape of purple pillars for audio-visual installation in a Chinese park
Visitors to a park in Xiangyang are greeted by over 500 bright purple fins, which are dotted with LEDs and play traditional Chinese music from internal speakers (+ slideshow). More
Tadao Ando's first New York building shown in new images
The full facade of Japanese architect Tadao Ando's concrete and glass apartment block for Manhattan is revealed in this set of visualisations. More
Amy Congdon's couture fashion integrates textile design and tissue engineering
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in this movie, designer and researcher Amy Congdon explains how tissue engineering could be used to grow new biological textiles for the fashion industry. More
Patkau Architects designs chalet with steep angled roof beside a Whistler ski slope
This timber-clad ski chalet has a crystalline form designed to "shed snow" from the roof and an elevated living room that optimises views across Canada's Whistler Valley (+ slideshow). More