With Helsinki Design Week underway, local interior designer Joanna Laajisto has rounded up her top five extracurricular activities for visitors to the festival. More about Five spots to take a break during Helsinki Design Week
An elongated lightwell has been cut through this 1940s house in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, which has been renovated by locally based architecture studio Kientruc O. More about Kientruc O carves elliptical lightwell between Vietnamese house and its extension
Our pick of the best architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs this week include positions at Adjaye Associates in London and Benthem Crouwel Architects in Amsterdam. More about Top five architecture and design jobs this week include positions at Adjaye Associates and PriestmanGoode
Graphic design studio MuirMcNeil has used a systematic set of rules to create 8,000 unique front covers for the annual Typography Special of Eye magazine. More about MuirMcNeil generates 8,000 unique covers for Eye magazine
Swedish studio Tham & Videgård Arkitekter designed this summer retreat with a dramatic scooped roofline for an island in the Stockholm archipelago. More about Tham & Videgård completes "tent-like" summer house on a Swedish island
This timber-clad residence designed by Australian firms Clare Cousins Architects and The Sociable Weaver is the first home in the Australian state of Victoria to achieve a "10 Star" energy rating. More about Clare Cousins Architects creates first carbon-positive home in Australia's Victoria
Local firm DSDHA has completed a workshop building for jeweller Alex Monroe near London's Tower Bridge, featuring a facade covered by horizontal metal slats that allows passers by a glimpse of the jewellers at work. More about Slatted-steel facade allows partial views into jewellery workshop by DSDHA
French artist Xavier Veilhan has created two new sculptures of Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, which are set to be permanently installed across from the architects' iconic building, the Centre Pompidou. More about Sculptures of Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano to be installed at Centre Pompidou
Italian studio GGA Architects has transformed the site of an old hilltop settlement in the country's Marche region into a contemporary house comprising stone structures perched on a pigmented concrete plinth. More about Rural Italian residence combines traditional stone exterior with contemporary details
IKEA's external innovation lab Space10 has worked in collaboration with three young architects to create a four-metre-high bioreactor dome for growing microalgae. More about IKEA lab Space10 creates algae-producing pavilion in Copenhagen
With the inaugural Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2017 now underway, we created a new board of the most exciting projects in South Korea's capital, including MVRDV's High Line-inspired walkway and Zaha Hadid Architects' undulating Dongdaemun Design Plaza cultural complex. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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American firm Interface Studio Architects has built an all-white townhouse in a gentrifying part of Philadelphia, with a plywood core running up its middle. More about Plywood staircase extends up through centre of Philadelphia townhouse by ISA
Rectangular concrete slabs form the exterior of Dieguez Fridman's four-storey Corner House in Buenos Aires, which puts a vertical spin on the city's typical suburban architecture. More about Concrete-clad home by Dieguez Fridman reimagines Buenos Aires' typical "sausage houses"
This low-lying brick-and-concrete apartment complex was designed by architecture firm Woods Bagot to reflect the scale and materiality of the surrounding buildings in a Melbourne suburb. More about Woods Bagot combines brick and board-marked concrete throughout Elwood House apartments
Canadian company The Work of Mind has crowdfunded a compact measuring tool that professionals like architects, designers, sewers and carpenters can use on the go. More about Coin-sized Rollbe measuring wheel can be kept in a purse or pocket
Italian studio Pedevilla Architects has completed an extension to a traditional Alpine hotel, comprising a monolithic blackened-timber volume with windows that jut from the walls and roof to optimise mountain views. More about Pedevilla Architects adds angular blackened-larch extension to hotel in South Tyrol
This week, a pair of towers outside London's Victoria station won the 2017 Carbuncle Cup and children's clothes that grow with their wearers took home the UK's James Dyson Award. More about This week, the UK's worst building and best student invention were announced
Nike has combined computational design with its innovative knitting technology to create a capsule collection of menswear pieces, which it believes will take clothing to a "completely different place". More about Nike unveils Advanced Apparel Exploration clothing designed by data
PARKA Architecture has renovated a modernist home in Quebec City, preserving its most successful features while bringing in more natural light and decluttering the interiors. More about PARKA Architecture overhauls modernist Canadian home
The Chicago Architecture Center will take over a space inside a riverfront building by modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, which will be designed by US firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill and is set to open summer 2018. More about Chicago Architecture Foundation plans move to Mies van der Rohe-designed tower