“This has become a great political disaster for Japan”
Flint House features rugged stone walls that gradate from smoky grey to chalky white
Nha4 Architects adds flood-proof extension to family home in Vietnam
Mary Graham replaces false eyelashes with foraged plants
Uniform Wares offices include a glazed watch-prototyping room and a pivoting timber door
Foundations for planned “world’s tallest building” in China repurposed as fish farm
Nikken Space Design’s office in Osaka features a bleacher-style bookcase
Today we like: perforated metal facades
MU Architecture and Archicop’s French school winds around trees with a wiggly roof
Shih-Yen Lo’s desktop tools offer simple ways to cut-out complex shapes
100% Norway exhibition to showcase the country’s designers and manufacturers in London
Auckland art gallery by Mitchell and Stout Architects features an aluminium-plated facade
Triptyque and Philippe Starck design TOG’s first showroom to be as customisable as its furniture
Virtual reality will allow architects “to change the world like a god”
Bow-wow House by Design Band YOAP is a guesthouse for dog lovers in rural South Korea
Subterranean public space to be created beneath demolished Groningen sugar silo
Aldo Bakker takes over Amsterdam exhibition space with just five jugs
UNStudio selected by residents of Den Bosch to design new city theatre
Alejandro Aravena named as director of 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale
Perforated metal sheets concertina across the facade of an office extension in Lund
Lieven Dejaeghere’s pool house is a glass box topped with a concrete roof
Tokyo No Ie: Jérémie Souteyrat documents Tokyo’s contemporary houses
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