Alpine Barn Apartment by OFIS Arhitekti is a holiday home in a converted cattle shed
Slovenian studio OFIS Arhitekti has converted a run-down old cattle barn into an Alpine holiday cabin (+ slideshow). More
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Barber and Osgerby design glass cabinets to showcase their own "quantities of junk"
British designers Jay Osgerby and Edward Barber have contributed to the growing trend for glass furniture with a series of cabinets created to display "those weird objects you find" at flea markets. More
Original track: The Good Old Days by Kudo Sol and RAMPELLI
UK producers Kudo Sol and RAMPELLI sampled Gladys Knight’s 1974 song The Way We Were/Try To Remember to create this mellow track called The Good Old Days.
Annabel Karim Kassar’s telescopic pavilions bring a taste of Lebanon to Milan
Movie: in this movie, French architect Annabel Karim Kassar explains how her Camera Chiara installation recreated the atmosphere of a Lebanese house in a Milanese courtyard. More
"More than just a political system, Europe is a form of modernisation"
Opinion: in the noughties, architects OMA worked on a series of optimistic projects for the European Union, including a proposal for a colourful EU Barcode flag and an exhibition suggesting that a united Europe "could be fun". With the EU looking increasingly fragile, OMA partner Reinier de Graaf wonders if they should have bothered. More
Pop-up office created around a tree trunk in London's Hoxton Square
London Festival of Architecture 2015: wrapped around a tree trunk in east London's Hoxton Square, this translucent pod provides temporary office space intended to encourage workers into the borough's parks (+ slideshow). More
Tadao Ando says his first New York building will be "a very quiet piece of architecture"
Japanese architect Tadao Ando has revealed details about his first building in New York City, explaining that he wanted to "create something that only a Japanese person could do" (+ movie). More
Dezeen Mail #257
McDonald's golden restaurant in Rotterdam, sex toys created to subvert stereotypes and BIG's stacked-box skyscraper design for New York (pictured), feature in this week's Dezeen Mail. Click through for our pick of the best news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
Tokenlights creates pendant lamps shaped like Japanese fruit
Brooklyn studio Tokenlights has designed a set of hand-blown glass pendants based on the fruit of a rare Japanese plant (+ slideshow). More
Call for entries to Eleven's Cambodia architecture competition
Dezeen promotion: architects, designers and multidisciplinary teams are invited to submit proposals for preserving Cambodia's Tonle Sap lake as part of a competition organised by Eleven magazine (+ slideshow). More
Brick blocks hold separate classrooms at Fonte de Angeão School by Miguel Marcelino
Set against a background of mature trees in rural Portugal, this primary school is separated into a series of brick structures intended to help fragment the building and lessen its impact on the landscape (+ slideshow). More
Construction starts on Steven Holl-designed Maggie's Centre at London's oldest hospital
Construction has begun on Steven Holl's controversial Maggie's cancer-care centre at London's St Bartholomew's Hospital, which the architect says will respect rather than mimic its historic setting. More
Dezeen's top six picks from this year's Central Saint Martins fashion design graduates
Graduate shows 2015: Dezeen's Dan Howarth selects his favourite collections from the 2015 crop of Central Saint Martins BA Fashion graduates, which included wire mobiles, knitted puppets and balloon animals. More
Richard Rogers updates Jean Prouvé's 6x6 Demountable House for Design Miami/Basel
Design Miami/Basel 2015: architect Richard Rogers has redesigned a flatpack home originally created by Jean Prouvé as a housing solution for victims of the second world war (+ slideshow). More
Faceted concrete bridge by 2b Architectes links a metro station with a forest
This concrete footbridge spans a road in Lausanne, Switzerland, to connect a metro station with the scenic Sauvabelin Forest (+ slideshow). More
V&A presents extreme footwear in Shoes: Pleasure and Pain exhibition
From opulent royal foot apparel to dangerously high stilettos, a new exhibition at London's V&A museum explores the "human obsession with shoes" over 2,000 years (+ slideshow). More