New York 2016: New Zealand and Dutch design duo Sabine Marcelis and Brit van Nerven have created a range of mirrors from layers of coloured glass that create ombré effects across the surfaces (+ slideshow). More about Sabine Marcelis and Brit van Nerven's Hue mirrors feature gradients of colour
Edinburgh practice A449 has adapted a "nondescript" mid-20th-century dwelling in the Scottish Borders to create a home with scenic views for a writer (+ slideshow). More about A449 converts Scottish cottage into writer's home with scorched larch cladding
When it comes to contemporary architecture, San Francisco is a stubborn town. But could change be coming at last? Proposals by high-profile architects such as OMA, Studio Gang and Foster + Partners could bring a more dramatic skyline and a transformed waterfront – if San Francisco's notoriously persnickety planning system and pressure groups let them (+ slideshow). More about Architecture could finally break out in San Francisco, where "dreams go to die"
Milan 2016: Danish firm BIG has created a modular lighting system that can be rearranged to form different letters of a bespoke typeface. More about BIG designs modular Alphabet of Light for Artemide
Our US job of the week on the new and improved Dezeen Jobs website is for an architect/designer at Design, Bitches in Los Angeles, whose recent projects include Button Mash – an Asian-fusion restaurant and video arcade (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Opinion: designers can't save the world, but even the smallest intervention could help improve the conditions faced by the unprecedented number of refugees flooding Europe, says Richard van der Laken. More about "Designers cannot just stand by and watch as the refugee crisis unfolds"
Competition: London-based designer Phil Cuttance has teamed up with Dezeen to give one reader a handmade vase, featuring a raised herringbone pattern. More about Competition: win a hand-cast Herringbone vase by Phil Cuttance
The Australian Institute of Architects has this year awarded the country's most prestigious architecture award to "controversial and contentious" studio ARM Architecture (+ slideshow). More about ARM Architecture wins 2016 Gold Medal from the Australian Institute of Architects
Denmark's Normann Copenhagen is set to become the latest furniture brand to launch a range of stationery and accessories, echoing strategies used by the fashion industry with its Daily Fiction collection (+ slideshow). More about Normann Copenhagen to launch Daily Fiction range of accessories and stationery
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MVRDV and COBE pay tribute to the trashy glamour of rock and roll with this rock music museum in Denmark, which features a golden studded exterior and an auditorium that appears to defy gravity (+ slideshow). More about MVRDV and COBE complete Roskilde rock museum dressed with golden studs
The American Institute of Architects has pulled out of hosting a conference in Wilmington, North Carolina, in a protest against the state's new anti-LGBT law. More about AIA cancels North Carolina conference over anti-LGBT law
Milan 2016: New York lighting designer Lindsey Adelman explains how she used motors to create a vibrating chandelier for Nike in this movie filmed by Dezeen at the sports brand's The Nature of Motion exhibition. More about Lindsey Adelman creates quivering tree-like lighting installation for Nike
Our job of the week on the new and improved Dezeen Jobs is for a brand architect with the international sportswear company Nike at its European headquarters in the Netherlands. Visit the ad for full details or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Tropical, desert and aquatic plants will be housed in a trio of domed glass greenhouses at the centre of these botanical gardens planned by Austrian firm Delugan Meissl Associated Architects for Taiyuan, China. More about Domed greenhouses form heart of botanic garden design by Delugan Meissl
Milan 2016: rotating arms complete loops of copper to switch on these lights, which were designed by Odd Matter Studio to resemble electrical diagrams (+ slideshow). More about Odd Matter Studio's Jesmonite and copper Node lights are modelled on circuit diagrams
Curled white concrete walls and a water-filled courtyard frame this museum of Baroque art and culture in Mexico by Japanese architect Toyo Ito (+ slideshow). More about Toyo Ito creates fluted walls of white concrete at Museo Internacional del Barroco
This elevated walkway by Glenn Howells Architects meanders through the treetops at the Westonbirt arboretum in Gloucestershire, England. More about Sinuous treetop walkway by Glenn Howells Architects opens at Britain's national arboretum
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is reopening after three years of renovation, including an extension by architecture firm Snøhetta that piggybacks on the original Mario Botta-designed building (+ slideshow). More about SFMOMA reopens with Snøhetta extension that triples its gallery space
Stella McCartney-designed kits for the British Olympic team (pictured), Zaha Hadid's "oyster-like" ferry terminal in Italy and Dyson's new hairdryer that is inaudible to human ears features in this week's edition of Dezeen Mail.
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