Lakeside holiday home by Maximilian Eisenköck has gridded blackened-timber walls
This blackened-timber house by Maximilian Eisenköck provides a holiday home for three siblings and their spouses overlooking a lake near Vienna (+ slideshow). More
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Company's Secrets of North Japan includes "spirit" costumes and Japanese roller-skates
Finnish design duo Company has created a range of products combining traditional skills and designs from northern Japan with craft from Finland and has given each one a "spirit" – a person dressed in a costume to represent the soul of the object (+ slideshow). More
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Dezeen's top 10 installations and exhibitions at London Design Festival 2015
London Design Festival 2015: the London Design Festival is back, with events kicking off in the British capital this weekend. Dezeen's Dan Howarth selects his pick of the best exhibitions and installations taking place around the city from 19-27 September. More
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"London is already degrading and demoralising for young professionals"
Comments update: interior designer and TV presenter Naomi Cleaver provoked a strong response from Dezeen readers this week after identifying student-style accommodation for adults as a potential solution to London's housing crisis. More
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Postmodern architecture: No 1 Poultry, London, by James Stirling
Pomo summer: the last project in our Postmodernism season is by one of Britain's greatest architects. With its distinctive stripy facade, rounded clock tower and colourful courtyard, No 1 Poultry was James Stirling's last completed building, but is currently the focus of a preservations battle involving some of the world's best-known architects (+ slideshow). More
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Six designs unveiled in shortlist for Bath Quays Bridge competition
Amanda Levete, Grimshaw and Heneghan Peng are among the six teams that have unveiled designs for a new bridge over the River Avon in Bath, England (+ slideshow). More
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Shingled community centres by Sophus Søbye Arkitekter face into Copenhagen parkland
Canadian cedar shingles and slats cover the gables of this community centre and scout hut, which sit behind a concrete wall on the edge of Copenhagen's Søndermarken park (+ slideshow). More
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SURI modular housing system provides emergency shelter for refugees
This adaptable shelter system is providing temporary housing for refugees displaced by conflict in their home countries. More
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Zanderroth Architekten designs cb19 apartments without internal walls to create flexible layouts
The apartments in this new Berlin co-housing project by Zanderroth Architekten were designed without the need for load-bearing walls inside, giving the owners flexibility to decide on their own layouts (+ slideshow). More
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Timothy Hatton Architects designs floating steel staircase for Deirdre Dyson gallery
London firm Timothy Hatton Architects has added a burnished steel staircase to rug designer Deirdre Dyson's Chelsea carpet gallery as part of a renovation of her studio. More
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Nikolay Polissky's SELPO pavilion is covered in thousands of wood offcuts
Russian artist Nikolay Polissky has transformed a dilapidated building in the village of Zvizzhi into a pavilion covered in pieces of timber, which he described as "a sculpture you can walk through" (+ slideshow). More
