This museum in Beijing takes its name from the red brick used by architect Dong Yugan to create spaces that are dramatically illuminated by skylights, perforations and narrow windows incorporated into its homogenous masonry surfaces. More about Dong Yugan uses brick to form sculptural surfaces and playful structures at Red Brick Art Museum
Italian stationery brand Moleskine has added to its collection of smart products able to digitise handwritten notes with the release of a planner that syncs with phones, computers and tablets. More about Moleskine's Smart Planner lets users organise notes on page and screen
This week it was announced that London's Oxford Street will be converted into a pedestrian-only zone, and SOM revealed visuals for a 56-storey skyscraper in the City that resembles its would-be neighbour, the Cheesegrater. More about This week, plans for Cheesegrater 2.0 and a car-free Oxford Street were revealed
Removing interior walls and expanding the roofline of this bungalow in Austin, Texas, allowed Murray Legge Architecture to create a light-filled living space for a local newspaper editor and her family. More about New roof and clerestories bring light into renovated Texas bungalow by Murray Legge Architecture
A new digital billboard in London's Piccadilly Circus uses recognition technology to display targeted advertisements based on the make of passing cars, and the gender and age of pedestrians. More about Piccadilly Circus billboard uses recognition technology to deliver targeted adverts
Canadian design studio Atelier Filz has collaborated with local craftsmen to create custom-made pieces for a restaurant in Quebec City, including aluminium lamps and a glazed entryway. More about Atelier Filz designs bespoke lighting and chairs for restaurant in Quebec City
This week, we've scoured our Pinterest archives for high-rise apartments with vertiginous views of city skylines. From a luxury penthouse in Manhattan's tallest tower to a 30th-floor condominium in Kiev, here are some of the best from around the world. More about 10 city apartments that take skyline views to new heights
Mexican architecture studio Productora has attached a two-storey steel unit onto the back of a bungalow in California to add more living space. More about Productora adds steel-frame extension to pink bungalow in Los Angeles
Architect Curro Checa Romero has refurbished and extended a 1980s house in east London, more than doubling its interior dimensions and creating a series of light-filled spaces with an improved connection to the rear garden. More about Checa Romero Architects "makes the most" of small brick house by extending in every direction
Park Hill estate is to receive a new Carmody Groarke-designed art gallery and suite of studios, as part of the redevelopment of the brutalist housing scheme built in 1961. More about Carmody Groarke unveils plans for art centre at Sheffield's Park Hill estate
Construction has begun on Zaha Hadid Architects' residential high-rise in the Mexican capital, set to become the city's tallest apartment building. More about Zaha Hadid Architects begins work on Mexico City's "highest residential tower"
Dezeen promotion: Spanish surface manufacturer Compac has revealed five new variations of its quartz surface material, each based on textures and patterns found in the natural environment. More about Compac launches quartz surface collection based on natural patterns and forms
A simple house features on the cover of Reinier de Graaf's new book, Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession. In this extract, the OMA partner reveals the building's secret, politically fuelled past. More about "Can a house be beautiful simply because of what we know, not because of what we see?"
The smooth surface and soft-pink hue of a newly plastered wall provided the starting point for the design of communal workspaces at this new creative hub in east London by local studio Sella Concept. More about Sella Concept applies "cocoon of rich materials and colour" to interiors of east London office
The spherical, weighted base of this floor lamp by Australian designer Nick Rennie stops it from falling over if pushed or knocked. More about Nick Rennie designs cordless floor lamp that sways side-to-side
Snaking wooden walkways traverse a terraced garden planted with 700 trees at the heart of this tower development in Singapore's Marina Bay by Ingenhoven Architects and landscape firm Gustafson Porter + Bowman. More about Terraced gardens echoing paddy fields fill centre of Singapore's Marina One
This captioned movie created for our Dezeen x MINI Living series features the duct-shaped pavilion PUP Architects designed for the roof of an east London warehouse to challenge the local planning authority's stance on rooftop dwellings. More about Rooftop dwelling by PUP Architects emulates a service duct
The Calvin Klein flagship on New York's Madison Avenue has gone from "minimal to maximal", with a bright yellow makeover forming the backdrop for artworks celebrating Americana. More about Raf Simons and Sterling Ruby transform Calvin Klein store with yellow scaffolding
WeWork is continuing its expansion beyond coworking with a kindergarten called WeGrow, which will be designed by Danish architecture firm BIG in New York City. More about BIG designs kindergarten in New York City for WeWork
Photographs showing the drawing tools of architects and designers feature in this week's Dezeen Mail, alongside an eye-shaped library by MVRDV and therapy tools for sexual abuse. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail ›
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