Adjaye in the frame for Obama library ahead of official announcement
Chicago is expected to be named as the location for the Obama presidential library next week, with David Adjaye tipped to be the project's architect. More
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"The same architecture that once embodied social mobility now helps to prevent it"
Opinion: the ideals of Modernism can't survive the pressures of a voracious market that views buildings purely as capital, says Reinier de Graaf. More
LinkedIn blocks BIG and Heatherwick's proposed Google HQ
The future of Google's new BIG- and Heatherwick-designed California headquarters is in jeopardy – because social network LinkedIn has been given most of the land required to build it. More
Dezeen wins Commercial Campaign of the Year at the British Media Awards 2015
Dezeen has won Commercial Campaign of the Year at the British Media Awards 2015 for our Dezeen and MINI Frontiers collaboration, beating publishers including News UK, Trinity Mirror and Time Inc. More
Original track: REM Overload by 800xL
REM Overload is an electronic track by Newport-based produced 800xL, who takes his name from an 8-bit Atari home computer. The track features on 800xL’s new album CTRLALTDEL, which is available to buy on Bandcamp now.
Studio GAON completes a concrete cafe beside a dual carriageway in South Korea
A plot left unused for decades because of its awkward triangular shape is now the home of this concrete cafe designed by South Korean office Studio GAON (+ slideshow). More
Dezeen Mail #252
This week's Dezeen Mail includes OMA's Fondazione Prada, a ranking of the world's top architecture schools and Daniel Libeskind's dragon-inspired pavilion at the Milan Expo. Click through for all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
Splayed concrete walls give Valerio Olgiati's Villa Além the appearance of an open box
Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati added concrete fins to the walls of this house in rural Portugal, which splay outwards and inwards like the flaps of an open box to provide shade for a garden within (+ slideshow). More
Sancal's 2015 collection includes furniture that pieces together like a puzzle
Dezeen promotion: Spanish design company Sancal has released its latest furniture range, which features tessellating chairs and tables designed by Valencian studio Yonoh (+ slideshow). More
Italy's Museo della Merda is full of shit
The Museum of Shit is housed in an Italian castle and is dedicated to demonstrating "what a useful and living substance crap really is" (+ slideshow). More
Paris' tallest housing block in over 40 years is clad with gold and silver metal
These two metal-clad towers featuring stepped forms and angular balconies were designed to prove that, after years of skyscraper restrictions in Paris, height is no longer taboo (+ slideshow). More
Venetian fog influences Marco Zito's Caiigo lamp for Foscarini
Milan 2015: Italian designer Marco Zito has created a blown-glass pendant lamp for lighting brand Foscarini designed to mimic the morning mist that rises up from the Venetian Lagoon. More
France's Expo pavilion is a wooden lattice with plants and food slotted into its crevices
Milan Expo 2015: a robot cut all the components used to build France's Expo pavilion – a curved wooden lattice structure designed by XTU Architects to become a trellis for growing vegetables, herbs and hops (+ slideshow). More
Luca Cipelletti plasters Milan gallery with manure for Shit Show
Milan 2015: the walls of a Milanese gallery are lined with excrement to highlight one of the material's potential uses in this installation by architect Luca Cipelletti (+ slideshow). More
Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt names Graves and Burks among 2015 award winners
The late Michael Graves, MOS Architects and Stephen Burks are among the 11 winners of the prestigious 2015 National Design Awards, given annually by the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York (+ slideshow). More
Weiwei Wang's portable kit provides utensils for making fresh tofu
Milan 2015: specially adapted cooking implements, hand-woven baskets and ceramic bowls slot into this wooden and metal box, created by Chinese designer Weiwei Wang to work as a portable tofu-making kit (+ slideshow). More
Gottlieb Paludan Architects fuels Copenhagen's ambition to become carbon-neutral by 2025
Danish firm Gottlieb Paludan Architects has seen off competition from BIG, Henning Larsen Architects and 3XN to win a project designing a new biomass-fired heating and energy plant in Copenhagen. More
Foster + Partners to build hipster village in Dubai
Foster + Partners has revealed its plans for a creative community in Dubai modelled on the fashionable neighbourhoods of New York's Meatpacking District and east London's Shoreditch. More
Antonino Cardillo combines scent and texture for Illuminum Fragrance shop interior
Italian architect Antonino Cardillo has created a multi-sensory space for experiencing and buying fragrance by coating a room inside an old London building with volcanic ash (+ slideshow). More
Log-clad museum by Bornstein Lyckefors honours the legacy of Finnish slash-and-burn farmers
Bornstein Lyckefors Architects pays tribute to an agricultural technique known as slash-and-burn with this forest museum near Torsby, Sweden, clad with wooden logs (+ slideshow). More