Steel rebar forms storage system at Toronto kitchen showroom by DesignAgency
Canadian studio DesignAgency has used steel reinforcing bars to create a shelving system within a kitchen appliance showroom in Toronto (+ slideshow). More
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New Pinterest board: Canadian architecture
Following the news that Ole Scheeren's first solo project outside of Asia will be a tower in Vancouver, we've created a new Pinterest board that includes some of the most stunning examples of architecture in Canada.
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EDAA pairs volcanic stone with pivoting glazing at Casa Meztitla in Mexico
Huge glass doors pivot from the walls of this stone-walled mountain home, which sits at the foot of Tepozteco mountain in Mexico (+ slideshow). More
Exclusive video preview of SelgasCano's 2015 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
Movie: in the first of a series of videos to celebrate the opening of the fifteenth Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones previews SelgasCano's colourful structure ahead of its opening next week. More
Red and blue graphics represent an emotional journey in Um de Nós music video
Music: Brazilian director Fabricio Lima's animated music video for Marcelo Jeneci's track Um De Nós depicts a heartbroken man's journey to recovery using red and blue hues (+ movie). More
Volt Architecten's Belgian housing scheme is designed to look like a farmstead
This social housing development in Zingem, Belgium, responds to its location between a busy road and an agrarian landscape with a "ranch-like" arrangement of buildings framing a central courtyard (+ slideshow). More
New module enables Frankie Pendant light to go around corners
New Zealand studio Designtree has added a corner module to its flat-pack Frankie lighting system, enabling a range of new configurations including X shapes and loops. More
Studio Gil adds stairwell extension to a Modernist home in Primrose Hill
This brick maisonette in London's Primrose Hill has been modernised with a plywood-clad circulation tower and an elevated terrace overlooking Regent's Park (+ slideshow). More
Copper-clad studio by Stonewood Design is also a hide for wildlife watching
Embedded in the garden of an English countryside cottage, this small studio with a green roof and patinated copper walls creates a secluded spot for deer-watching (+ slideshow). More
Competition: win tickets to Kazuyo Sejima's talk at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to offer readers the chance to win one of five pairs of tickets to a talk with Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima, co-founder of SANAA. More
This week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen we reported on plans for Álvaro Siza's first building in the US, the opening of the OMA-designed Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, and a remote cabin in Washington state (pictured). Read on to catch up with the latest architecture, interiors and design news, plus our track of the week. More
House of Music represents a "very simple but powerful typology" says Wolf D Prix
Coop Himmelb(l)au founder Wolf D Prix explains how the design of his House of Music concert hall in Denmark was influenced by a monastery by Le Corbusier in this movie by architectural filmmakers Spirit of Space. More
US job of the week: public relations officer at OMA
Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a public relations officer at the New York office of OMA, who designed the polycarbonate-clad Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow's Gorky Park (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
"Washington DC's aversion to skyscrapers has turned it into an American Versailles"
Opinion: a reactionary government policy from 1899 has turned Washington DC into a city of low buildings, expensive floor space and rampant inequality. A few skyscrapers could change all that, says Matthew Yglesias, executive editor of Vox. More
Clerkenwell Design Week 2015 video highlights
Movie: leading designers and architects including Michael Young and David Adjaye talk about their participation in Clerkenwell Design Week 2015 in this movie produced by Dezeen for the festival. More
Max Lamb installs multicoloured manmade-marble bathroom at Design/Miami Basel 2015
Design Miami/Basel 2015: British designer Max Lamb has created a bathroom suite for Dzek from speckled synthetic marble and installed the products in a space lined with the same material. More
SelgasCano's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion nears completion
New construction images show this year's colourful Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Spanish architects José Selgas and Lucía Cano, which is rapidly nearing completion ahead of its opening next week (+ slideshow). More
Schmidt Hammer Lassen completes Scandinavia's largest library
Danish firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has completed a 30,000-square-metre library in Aarhus, Denmark, with a faceted metal-clad volume on top and a new train station underneath (+ slideshow). More
MAD designs hilltop village for Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills
Chinese architecture office MAD has unveiled designs for a residential project resembling a hilltop village for Beverly Hills in Los Angeles. More
Job of the week: urban designer at CEBRA
Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an urban designer at Danish studio CEBRA, whose sports hall in the town of Løgstør was built using a modular system based on the principles of a Meccano model-making set (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.