Catalan designer Eugeni Quitllet has used plexiglass to create the backrests for wooden chairs in this collection for Italian brand Alias. More about Eugeni Quitllet joins plexiglass backrests to Tabu chairs for Alias
A huge folding wall lifts up to reveal the contents of a weathered steel auditorium at this abandoned printing factory in Beijing, which Chinese studio Origin Architect has converted into a theatre complex (+ slideshow). More about Origin Architect transforms Beijing factory into a theatre complex
London-based Samuel Wilkinson Studio has designed an office space to house a business incubator, featuring fixed furniture and leafy embellishments (+ slideshow). More about Samuel Wilkinson embellishes Seeds office interior with leaves
Clerkenwell Design Week 2014: British design brand Another Country has collaborated with New York studio Workstead to produce a lighting collection formed from reconfigurable metal rods. More about Workstead bolts together metal rods to form lighting for Another Country
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: developing "living architecture" could help humanity survive, claims senior University of Greenwich lecturer Rachel Armstrong, who is investigating how we could grow a city in space. More about "Growing a city from the bottom up" could save the human race
Alternating cubes of timber and glass cover the back of this Sydney house extension by Australian office Panovscott, offering a balance of light, shade, views and privacy. More about Panovscott creates Sydney extension with alternating timber and glass facade
Input Creative Studio has created a New York studio for a children's portrait photographer with a playhouse-shaped niche in one wall (+ slideshow). More about Photography studio by Input Creative Studio features a turquoise playhouse
Behind the traditional ceramic-tiled facade of this nineteenth-century building, Portuguese studio OODA has completed a modern renovation to create 14 studio flats (+ slideshow). More about OODA completes modern apartment renovation behind tiled facade in Porto
A series of wooden partitions divide the interior of this apartment in Tokyo by local architects Camp Design Inc, creating a multilayered space with hidden alcoves and areas (+ slideshow). More about Wooden wing walls divide Tokyo apartment by Camp Design Inc
Dezeen Music Project: a character made from yellow wool unwinds in this heart-wrenching stop-motion music video created by animator Ainslie Henderson for UK band James. More about Music video for James' new single Moving On is a stop-motion meditation on life and death
This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a lead architect/ designer at international architecture firm Powerhouse Company, whose 100-metre-tall broadcast and observation tower design is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Clerkenwell Design Week 2014: Stockholm architect and designer Hanieh Heidarabadi has created a brass pendant lamp with the intention that people will 3D-print their own shades. More about Shades for Make Lamp by Hanieh Heidarabadi can be custom 3D-printed
This week architect David Adjaye and designer Ron Arad revealed their proposal for Canada's National Holocaust Monument competition, which was beaten by a star-shaped design from Daniel Libeskind, and we reported from Clerkenwell Design Week 2014 with projects from Barber and Osgerby, Studio Weave and Paul Smith. Read on for more of the week's top architecture and design news, plus our Dezeen Music Project featured track. More about This week on Dezeen
Vertical aluminium slats screen the exterior and windows of this house in Kuwait by Studio Toggle, providing shade and privacy for the residents. More about Studio Toggle screens Kuwait house with angled aluminium slats
A growing number of designers have been experimenting with digital manufacturing to create unusual wallpaper patterns, so we've collected together the best examples from the pages of Dezeen. See our new wallpaper Pinterest board»
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News: the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has saved most of the structure and "the majority of its contents" but is still working to extinguish the fire that ripped through the Mackintosh building earlier today. More about Firefighters "prevent destruction" of Mackintosh's iconic Glasgow School of Art
Plinths filled with tropical trees and plants were designed by Swiss studio Big-Game, to showcase the finalists of a design prototype competition in Paris organised by fashion house Hermès. More about Big-Game designs indoor oasis for Parisian Prix Emile Hermès exhibition
Artist duo Sofie Lachaert and Luc d'Hanis have recreated a terrace of workers' cottages to house an exhibition of their work at Belgium's Grand-Hornu Images museum (+ slideshow). More about Sofie Lachaert and Luc d'Hanis build temporary housing terrace for exhibition
News: the international architecture community is in mourning for Mackintosh's masterpiece as tributes pour in for "immeasurably" influential building. More about Glasgow School of Art fire "unbelievably tragic", says Steven Holl