Archigram founder Peter Cook has completed his first project in the UK, a vibrant blue drawing studio with a tilted oculus for his former school, the Arts University Bournemouth (+ slideshow). More about Bournemouth's bright blue drawing studio is Peter Cook's first building in the UK
Conceived as a pair of colour-changing "lungs" connected by two looping cycle tracks, Loop.pH's Vel02 installation has opened as part of the Velo-City Global 2016 cycling conference in Taipei (+ movie). More about Loop.pH's BMX track installation in Taipei changes colour in response to air quality
Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an interior designer at SOM, which created the masterplan for an entire privately funded Egyptian city (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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A capsule Chamber gallery exhibition covering 10 years of work by designers Studio Job is on view at the Armory Show art fair in New York (+ slideshow). More about 10 Years of Studio Job on view at the Armory Show art fair in New York
Opinion: the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art's temporary move in to the Whitney's old unprotected Breuer building is the result of behind-the-scenes machinations of a major donor. Thank goodness, says Alan G Brake. More about "New York should give Breuer's building lasting protection"
Geneva Motor Show 2016: Chinese startup Techrules has unveiled a track-focused concept vehicle that can be recharged on the move via an on-board turbine at the 86th Geneva Motor Show. More about Techrules showcases turbine-recharging tech in "China's first supercar"
Dezeen promotion: Italian designer Luca Nichetto has created a collection of furniture for Portuguese brand De La Espada, which will launch at Shanghai's Festival of Design from 6 to 19 March 2016. More about De La Espada to launch Stella chair by Luca Nichetto in Shanghai
A pair of giant glass doors span the rear of this house in Yucatán, Mexico, opening it to a leafy courtyard garden and shaded pool (+ slideshow). More about Huge glass doors open Taller Estilo Arquitectura's Mexican house to a courtyard garden
Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a junior architect/designer at Bjarke Ingels' firm BIG, which recently unveiled its "unzipped wall" design for this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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This timber holiday home by Nantes studio Atelier MIMA is designed to follow the gentle slope of a wooded valley that leads towards the Vilaine river in north-west France (+ slideshow). More about Atelier MIMA completes timber-clad holiday home overlooking a river in rural France
Design duo Laetitia de Allegri and Matteo Fogale have installed window displays in four different COS stores to coincide with fashion weeks in London, Paris, Milan and New York (+ slideshow). More about De Allegri and Fogale create COS window installations with recycled-fabric objects
Five blackened timber structures dot the shoreline of a remote island in the Stockholm archipelago to form a holiday home by Margen Wigow Arkitektkontor (+ slideshow). More about Margen Wigow Arkitektkontor models blackened timber holiday home on Swedish fishing huts
NASA has unveiled a conceptual design for a supersonic plane that would be much quieter than Concorde. More about NASA is developing a quiet supersonic passenger jet for overland flights
Architects Le Corbusier, Herzog & de Meuron and Gottfried Semper are depicted in drag to promote a series of talks about the industry's gender imbalance at Swiss university ETH Zurich. More about Architects made up as drag queens to promote Parity Talks series
A long-awaited cultural centre designed by architects Patrick Berger and Jacques Anziutti is nearing completion on the site of Les Halles – a historic Parisian marketplace demolished in the 1970s. More about Les Halles to reopen as glass-roofed cultural centre and shopping complex
Business news: UK architecture firm BDP has been bought by Japanese firm Nippon Koei for £102.2 million. More about UK's third-biggest architecture firm BDP bought by Japanese engineering giant
The "world's fastest" road-legal car by Bugatti (pictured), Ole Scheeren's pixelated 314-metre-high skyscraper and BIG's new residential development for Toronto feature in the latest edition of Dezeen Mail.
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To make this Shanghai restaurant feel like a retro American diner, Chinese studio Neri&Hu added bold tiles and an angular roof that overhangs a foldable glazed facade (+ slideshow). More about Neri&Hu bases Shanghai burger restaurant on 1950s diners
Wooden shutters can be drawn across the pigeonhole-style windows of this apartment block in Tehran by local studio TDC Office (+ slideshow). More about Wavy wooden shutters cover gridded apartment block in Iran by TDC Office
Israel's design museum will hold a four-month retrospective covering the prolific output of Japanese studio Nendo and its founder Oki Sato (+ slideshow). More about Design Museum Holon to host Nendo's first major museum retrospective