Plans to build a subterranean residence with a swimming pool for a roof were given the go-ahead this week, prompting us to pin wildly ambitious house designs – built or imagined – to a new Pinterest board.
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Möhring Architekten clad this holiday home in rural Germany in black-painted wood to look like a traditional barn, but then cut windows out of the corners to give it a contemporary edge (+ slideshow). More about House Wieckin by Möhring Architekten features black-painted walls and deep corner windows
Photo essay: keen to embark on career in architecture, young German student Paul Eis has been documenting the buildings of Berlin and Hamburg, but adapting them with bright colours (+ slideshow). More about Paul Eis uses Instagram to give German architecture a colourful makeover
Opinion: Santiago Calatrava's World Trade Center transit hub may be Instagram-friendly, but it is part of a troubling trend for public spending on spaces that aren't really public at all, says Alan G Brake. More about "Calatrava's transit hub feels utterly scrubbed of memory and dislocated from New York"
Music: Bristol-based director Ruffmercy has combined archive footage of J Dilla with hand-drawn animation in the music video for the late American rapper's most recent posthumous track The Sickness (+ movie). More about Ruffmercy collages archive footage of J Dilla for The Sickness music video
Canadian architecture studio UUfie has inserted polycarbonate partitions into a medical clinic, part filling them with glass to create a hazy "horizon" (+ slideshow). More about UUfie completes light-filled Ontario medical clinic with translucent polycarbonate walls
A narrow window extends up to the roof of this chapel-like wooden house in southwest London, bringing light into a compact interior that is partly sunken below ground (+ slideshow). More about Giles Pike Architects completes timber-clad house for a tiny London plot
This week on Dezeen: Apple's Jonathan Ive (pictured) accused contemporary designers of losing interest in how things are made this week, while the United Arab Emirates revealed plans for a manmade mountain in an attempt to increase the country's rainfall. More about This week, Jonathan Ive took a swipe at designers and the UAE planned to build a mountain
Milan 2016: Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune's chair and sofa for Italian brand Tacchini feature tall sloping backs that form triangular shapes when seen from the side. More about Claesson Koivisto Rune designs Santiago seating with sloped backs for Tacchini
This floating weather station by Matthew Butcher has been cast adrift in the flood-prone Thames Estuary, and is intended as a critique on the current trend for floating architecture (+ slideshow). More about Matthew Butcher launches floating weather station on Essex's Thames Estuary
New York's Museum of Modern Art has announced an exhibition of projects that aim to tackle the issue of shelter for migration and global refugee emergencies. More about MoMA's Insecurities exhibition to address the global refugee crisis
Our US job of the week on the new and improved Dezeen Jobs website is for an architect/designer at Commune Design, which transformed a Mid-Century Modern office building into a boutique hotel (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Milan 2016: Italian company Ghidini Giuseppe Bosco has unveiled its debut range of brass furniture and products, designed by Studio Job, the Campana brothers, Richard Hutten and more. More about Ghidini launches first collection of brass homeware and furniture
British designer Jasper Morrison has revealed Lepic, his first industrially produced kitchen (+ slideshow). More about Jasper Morrison designs first kitchen for Schiffini
Milan 2016: in our next movie from Nike's The Nature of Motion exhibition, architect Greg Lynn explains how his body temperature-regulating chair could help athletes significantly improve their performance. More about Greg Lynn's microclimate chair for Nike could give athletes "a distinct performance advantage"
Opinion: Salone del Mobile may be the official centre of the furniture business during Milan design week, but the anarchic fuorisalone is the thing that actually channels investment into the city, says local designer Eleonora Fassina. More about "In Milan, design is best exhibited where it's not supposed to be"
Airbnb's offices in London, Sao Paulo and Singapore include features like an indoor village green, bleacher-style seating and a reception desk modelled on a front porch (+ slideshow). More about Airbnb reveals adaptable office spaces in London, Sao Paulo and Singapore
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha is to be awarded the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Architecture Biennale later this month. More about Paulo Mendes da Rocha chosen to receive Venice Biennale Golden Lion by Alejandro Aravena
Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed its designs for a new central business district for Prague next to the Masaryk railway station. More about Zaha Hadid Architects presents plans for new Prague business district
New York 2016: US artist Nicole Nadeau has used one of her own breasts to create a mould for a collection of hexagonal tiles complete with pink nipples. More about Nicole Nadeau's nipple tiles are moulded from her own breast