Dezeen opinion columnist Phineas Harper argued architects should abandon modernism in favour of traditional styles to appease populists, sparking a debate among readers in this week's comments update. More about "Make British architecture great again!"
Vito Acconci, whose provocative works range from an artificial island to a performance that involved masturbation, has died aged 77. More about "Subversive, shocking and truly unique" artist and architect Vito Acconci dies
US firm Andersson-Wise Architects has created a modest boathouse in Texas, designed to blend with its site as if it were "in a state of natural decomposition". More about Andersson-Wise assembles new and salvaged materials into rustic Austin boathouse
Following on from Balenciaga's recent take on the IKEA Frakta bag, Los Angeles fashion brands Pleasures and Chinatown Market have made a baseball hat from the 40p tote. More about IKEA's blue bag has been reimagined as a baseball hat
This concrete house in Tel Aviv by Bar Orian Architects features vertical louvres that can be either rotated to filter light or slid open to reveal the windows behind. More about Box-framed louvres shade windows of concrete house in Tel Aviv
Filigreed carbon-fibre shutters fold around the oriel window of Foster + Partners' Apple Store in Dubai, shading the shop floor during the day but opening at night to views of the Burj Khalifa. More about Foster + Partners completes Dubai Apple Store with carbon-fibre "solar wings"
Dezeen promotion: the challenges of regional political instability have fuelled the creativity of designers in Lebanon, says the director of Beirut Design Week, which takes place in the city this month. More about Beirut Design Week returns to show the world Lebanon "is not just about political instability"
Angular, board-marked concrete walls offer a variety of views from the pared-back spaces inside this house designed by Steimle Architekten in Tübingen, Germany. More about Steimle Architekten completes "crystal-like" concrete house in Germany
Marcel Wanders has partnered with San Francisco company O2Today to release a set of air pollution masks made from patterned wool. More about Marcel Wanders designs air pollution masks with graphic prints for O2Today
Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a senior designer at David Gill Galleries in London, which recently exhibited lesser-known works by late architect Zaha Hadid. More ›
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Austin studio Design Hound has completed a local home with light-toned facades, designed to help to create a "soft transition" into the residence's bright interior. More about Gable wall conceals double-height atrium in Austin home by Design Hound
A+Awards: this concert venue in the Dutch city of Leiden is clad with panels of weathering steel and was awarded a 2016 Architizer A+Award. More about Weathering steel clads "pop temple" in Leiden by Ector Hoogstad Architecten
The sculptural clothes of enigmatic Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo are the subject of this year's spring exhibition organised by the Costume Institute at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. More about Comme des Garçons fashion exhibition opens at The Met in New York
A conceptual scheme by a team of South Korean designers calls for inserting towers within the hollowed-out trunks of giant sequoias in the western US. More about Skyscraper competition proposal involves erecting towers within world's largest trees
Ferrari's design team has created an office chair for Italian brand Poltrona Frau that resembles the driver's seat of a sports car. More about Ferrari design team creates Cockpit office chair for Poltrona Frau
In a play on Slovenia's traditional wooden barns, Dekleva Gregorič Arhitekti has extruded the shape of a chimney along the top of this house to create a continuous skylight. More about Dekleva Gregorič Arhitekti builds wooden house with chimney-shaped skylight
Danish homeware brand Carl Hansen & Son built a mock apartment featuring rich colours and mid-century furniture for its Salone del Mobile installation during Milan design week. More about Carl Hansen & Son builds faux apartment to explore how furniture makes a home
Spanish Zooco Estudio has completed a complex of granite-clad buildings in the city of Verín that come together to form an arts centre for the Galician region. More about Zooco Estudio uses granite to unify disparate blocks of Gallician arts centre
Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a landscape architect to join the London studio of Martha Schwartz Partners, whose projects include teardrop-shaped landscaping for an Abu Dhabi plaza. More ›
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This colourful glass chair by Amsterdam designer Germans Ermičs is based on a seat designed by Shiro Kuramata in the 1970s. More about Germans Ermičs' Ombré chairs pay tribute to influential Japanese designer