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This week on Dezeen

This week we reported on Jacques Herzog's attack on the Milan ExpoTadao Ando's first project in New York and a Swedish woodland home (pictured). Read on to catch up with the latest architecture and design news, plus our track of the week.

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Ed's Shed by David Adjaye

To mark April Fools' Day, we published a bogus planning application to construct a private train station underneath the David Adjaye-designed Sunken House in London, as well as the world's first driverless fleet of pizza delivery vehicles.

Foster + Partners appointed to design new transport system for Jeddah
Visualisation of Jeddah's new transport system by Foster + Partners

Foster + Partners were appointed to design an £8 billion transport system in Saudi Arabia and Scottish firm Page\Park Architects won the job of restoring the fire-damaged Glasgow School of Art building.

Evolo 2015 skyscraper competition
Essence Skyscraper design

A conceptual skyscraper containing swamps, mountains and a jungle was named the winner in a competition to come up with futuristic high-rise living solutions.

Richard Rogers donates Wimbledon house to Harvard design school
Wimbledon house designed by Richard Rogers

In other architecture news, Richard Rogers donated the house he designed for his parents in the late 1960s to the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Alice Rawsthorn portrait by Chris Moore
Alice Rawsthorn

With just two weeks to go until this year's Salone del Mobile, design critic Alice Rawsthorn accused Milan's furniture fair of celebrating marketing over design.

Cliffs Impasse by Antonin Ziegler
Cliffs Impasse by Antonin Ziegler

Popular projects this week on Dezeen included a blackened plywood extension to a rural home in France, colourful glass tables by Nendo and a Japanese house featuring a hidden balcony.

Circle House by Kichi Architectural Design
Circle House by Kichi Architectural Design

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