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This week on Dezeen

This week on Dezeen

This week Apple launched its iOS 7 iPhone and iPad software with the much-anticipated design overhaul led by Jonathan Ive. Read on for more highlights plus Dezeen Music Project track of the week.

Reso Dream is a tech-house track by Cardiff producer Simplex, which we used as the soundtrack for our first Dezeen and MINI World Tour movie from Berlin.

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Meanwhile in architecture, Peter Zumthor revealed plans to raze the existing buildings of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and replace them with a new solar-powered campus, and Renzo Piano erected a tiny wooden cabin at the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein.

Japanese firm SANAA showed plans for a new campus at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Israel, while London architect David Adjaye revealed designs for a silk-weaving facility in India.

Kengo Kuma was in the spotlight with an art and culture centre with a chequered timber facade in France and villas covered in volcanic rubble in South Korea.

Furniture giant Ikea announced it'll produce miniatures of its bestsellers as dolls' house furniture, and that its founder Invar Kamprad is to step down after 70 years at the helm.

Finally, two proposals to bring gardens to the River Thames in London were unveiled: a pedestrian bridge covered in planting by Thomas Heatherwick and a promenade along the South Bank to rival New York's High Line.

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