Dezeen Mail issue 284 features a selection of this week’s best stories and discussions
Dezeen’s A-Zdvent calendar: Quarto Ponte sul Canal Grande by Santiago Calatrava
Woodland Quebec home by Bourgeois Lechasseur features a facade of wooden tiles
Designers create winter installation for Montreal featuring 30 glowing seesaws
Epicentro fills São Paulo flower shop with vintage furniture
Oslo warehouse converted into film production facility for Storyline Studios
Dezeen’s A-Zdvent calendar: Pont de Singe by Olivier Grossetête
Richard Yasmine’s Glory Holes table has brass dildos for legs
Note Design Studio creates Dining Theatre for Europe’s largest mall
Contemporary Belgian barn house by Pascal François is covered in clay tiles
Commune converts 1960s Space Age-style bank into a hotel in North Carolina
Icehotel 2016 opens in Lapland with suites themed around animals and films
Fraser Ross’ synthetic organs combine human and animal attributes
Royal College of Art appoints Adrian Lahoud as dean of architecture
Rural Icelandic cottages by PK Arkitektar have turf roofs and burnt timber cladding
Form Us With Love’s acoustic tiles for Baux can be arranged into pixellated patterns
Tree-like columns support roof of Ghent house extension by Atelier Vens Vanbelle
Clive Wilkinson suggests “carpet bombing” London with a co-working office in the sky
MAD’s sinuous Harbin Opera House completes in north-east China
Tigg Coll Architects integrates bright-red steel frame in London house extension
Star Wars planets receive fictional flag designs by Scott Kelly
Metal skin wraps the exterior of Niigata residence by Takeru Shoji Architects
