Mata Architects has added a timber-clad extension to a house in north London, with windows concealed behind large shutters that can be opened using mechanical winches. More about Large mechanical shutters cover windows of Black Box extension by Mata Architects
A controversial plan for an Apple Store, designed by Foster + Partners in Melbourne's Federation Square, has been abandoned after it was blocked by Australian heritage authorities. More about Federation Square's Foster + Partners-designed Apple Store axed
Winter Architecture has teamed with Zunica Interior Architecture to transform a historic Melbourne cricket pavilion into a flexible community hub. More about Winter Architecture creates community-focused cricket pavilion in Melbourne
We've selected the top architecture, interiors and design roles available on Dezeen Jobs this week, including vacancies at global coffee giant Starbucks and industrial design studio Marc Newson. More about The best opportunities available on Dezeen Jobs this week including positions at Starbucks and Marc Newson
To celebrate its 10th year, Mattiazzi is launching seating by Jasper Morrison, Konstantin Grcic, Foster + Partners and Industrial Facility, who guest art-directed the collections. More about Mattiazzi debuts four new seating collections at Milan design week
Dezeen promotion: Czech design brand Bomma has released a collection of hand-blown crystal lighting designed by Swiss studio Big-Game. More about Bomma unveils Blimp crystal lighting by Big-Game at Milan design week
Taking its cues from a cuckoo clock, Cuckoo House is a cafe combined with a four-person house in Da Nang, Vietnam, designed by architecture studio Tropical Space. More about Tropical Space builds brick coffee shop with a house perched above
Mexican architect Frida Escobedo sourced rammed earth from her home country to make the rosy brick walls in this Aesop store in Brooklyn. More about Frida Escobedo segments Aesop Park Slope with rammed-earth brickwork
Screens made from eucalyptus run along the front of this long and thin prefab residence, which São Paulo firm Studio MK27 has completed on a farm tucked into the rolling hills of Catuçaba, Brazil. More about Studio MK27 completes slender off-grid Catuçaba house on Brazil farm
Interior design studio ID: SR has transformed seven railway arches in south London into offices for Monmouth Coffee, completing workspaces in simple materials that draw focus to the industrial setting. More about ID:SR converts railway arches into offices for Monmouth Coffee
Designer Brodie Neill has created a contemporary hourglass filled with microplastic instead of sand to highlight the issue of ocean plastic pollution. More about Brodie Neill replaces sand with microplastic found on beaches in contemporary hourglass
We've updated our Pinterest board dedicated to the best Japanese houses, including a home on Okinawa Island with a metal-mesh canopy covered in plants and a house made up of spiralling platforms. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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Five aviation fuel containers on the former Longhua airport in Shanghai have been transformed into art and culture park Tank Shanghai, by local studio Open Architecture. More about Open Architecture converts airport fuel tanks into gallery spaces
This modernist resort in Northern California, which formed an enclave for artists in the 1960s, has been overhauled by Los Angeles design studio The Novogratz. More about Timber Cove Resort occupies mid-century A-frame building on Sonoma's coast
Spanish illustrator and writer Agustín Ferrer Casas has created a graphic novel about 20th-century modernist Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, featuring a prologue written by British architect Norman Foster. More about Graphic comic illustrates Mies van der Rohe's work and life
The Architectural Design Institute of South China University of Technology has completed a youth development facility, by renovating a former primary school and adding a series of covered bamboo campsite spaces. More about Tensile fabric roof stretches over bamboo structures at Raleigh Campsite in China
With the UK mired in Brexit crisis, this is a good time to revisit this design submitted for our Brexit passport design competition, which seems to sum up how a lot of people feel about the political situation. More about Proposed UK passport design by Mark Noad "truly represents our standing in the world"
This week on Dezeen, two big projects were given the green light – the new tallest building in western Europe and controversial London viewing tower The Tulip. More about This week, major new skyscrapers were approved in the UK and Denmark
Geometric shapes balance precariously atop misshapen forms in this abstract sculpture series by Swedish designer Malou Palmqvist. More about Malou Palmqvist's sculptures defy the "fundamental laws of nature"
The latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living series explores a vision from Bartlett School of Architecture student Michelle Ho, to replace demolished sections of a London housing estate with adaptable co-living units. More about Michelle Ho proposes retrofitting housing estates to densify cities