Manuel Ocaña Architecture has added mirrors, mist clouds and overgrown vegetation to a private swimming pool in Madrid, which is depicted in this movie along with a splashing mermaid. More
Photo essay: worried that Brazil's love motels would fall foul of Olympic development, Dutch duo Vera van de Sandt and Jur Oster visited the pay-by-the-hour rooms to capture the moods of these intimate spaces (+ slideshow). More
Graduate shows 2016: University of Fine Arts Hamburg graduate Frieder Bohaumilitzky's collection of prototype furniture is designed for Germany's Bundeswehr armed forces. More
A bridge forms the entrance of this house near Tel Aviv by architect Pitsou Kedem, which also features a perforated facade referencing the traditional regional latticework (+ slideshow). More
Aurora Arquitectos knocked through walls to create a large living room in this old Lisbon apartment, and inserted a wall with curving edges to form a pair of bedrooms (+ slideshow). More
Graduate shows 2016: Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design graduate Liron Gino has designed a set of jewellery-like devices that allow deaf and hard-of-hearing people to experience music through vibration (+ movie). More
World Heritage Corb: for the next instalment in our series on the 17 Le Corbusier buildings added to UNESCO's World Heritage list, Australian photographer Benjamin Hosking shares new images of Capitol Complex in Chandigarh – the Indian city that gave the architect a chance to test his Modernist theories on a grand scale (+ slideshow). More
To celebrate the 2016 Olympics kicking off in Rio this weekend, we've pinned the most popular Olympic and Paralympic design ever featured on Dezeen to a new Pinterest board. Highlights include the controversial Tokyo 2020 stadium, Team GB 2016 sports kits designed by Stella McCartney and a BMW-designed racing wheelchair for Paralympic athletes.
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Canada-based architect Reza Aliabadi has completed a home made up of vastly different halves at a lakefront site on the outskirts of Toronto (+ slideshow). More