The coffee-soaked layers of a French Opera cake influenced the colours, materials and textures used throughout this apartment in Tokyo (+ slideshow). More about French dessert influences Tokyo apartment interior by Taka Shinomoto and Voar Design Haus
Roughly cut wooden planks clad classrooms arranged around a central glazed atrium at this nursery, set in a forested suburb of Hamburg, Germany (+ slideshow). More about Kraus Schoenberg's woodland nursery wraps around a small courtyard garden
Photo essay: why do some people hate the architecture of Flaine? To find out, photographer Alastair Philip Wiper travelled to the Marcel Breuer-designed Modernist ski resort in the French Alps often referred to as "phlegm". More about Alastair Philip Wiper finds "noble failure" at Breuer's Modernist Flaine ski resort
Stockholm 2016: Russian designer Lera Moiseeva has created a tubular steel chair that is shaped to mimic the way plants grow. More about Lera Moiseeva's Ray chair references the shapes of plants and trees
Bright colours and geometric forms used by the 1980s Memphis Group influenced the interior design of Masquespacio's studio space in Valencia (+ slideshow). More about Masquespacio designs colourful interior and branding for its own Valencia studio
Melbourne architecture office Taylor Knights has renovated an existing Federation-style house in the city and added a contrasting contemporary extension that opens directly onto the rear garden (+ movie). More about Taylor Knights adds modern rear extension to a traditional Melbourne house
Designers Maarten Baas and Koichi Futatsumata have created a range of eating implements as part of a series of cutlery collaborations by Antwerp design label Valerie Objects. More about Maarten Baas and Koichi Futatsumata design "quirky high-end" cutlery collections
Imagine staying in a concrete summer house that sits among dunes on the Argentinian coastline, or a pair of rural Icelandic cottages with burnt timber cladding. These beautiful holiday homes from Dezeen's archive proved popular on Instagram, so we've created an entire Pinterest board full of remote retreats.
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The tall gabled form of this house in the Czech countryside is based on archetypal local barns and accommodates living areas with a height of nine metres (+ slideshow). More about Mjölk Architekti references agricultural architecture for barn-like house
French illustrator Malika Favre created this image for us to celebrate our 500,000th follower on Instagram. Follow us here for the best architecture, interiors and design images. More about Dezeen has reached 500,000 Instagram followers!
The interior of this juice bar in Toronto is lined with a prefabricated cedar structure that is designed to be dismantled and reconstructed in future locations (+ slideshow). More about Kilogram Studio designs cedar-lined interior for Toronto juice bar
Photo essay: Swiss photographer Nicolas Grospierre has spent the last 15 years meticulously documenting Modernist architecture across five continents, a process that has turned him into an "obsessive collector" (+ slideshow). More about Nicolas Grospierre's Modern Forms series is an "atlas" of decaying Modernism
Milan 2016: homeware and furniture from a range of Norwegian designers including Andreas Engesvik and Lars Beller Fjetland will go on display at the Structure exhibition in Milan's Ventura Lambrate district next month (+ slideshow). More about Structure exhibition in Milan to bring together work from 26 Norwegian designers
This fair-faced concrete house was designed by Arhitektura Krušec to look like rocks emerging from a sloped meadow facing the Slovenian Alps (+ slideshow). More about Arhitektura Krušec arranges House on Golo to frame trio of Alpine mountain ranges
This week on Dezeen: the automotive industry flocked to the Geneva Motor Show this week, where French manufacturer Bugatti unveiled what it described as the world's most powerful and fastest car. Meanwhile in California, Google's self-driving vehicle collided with a bus at walking pace. More about This week, Bugatti unveiled the "world's fastest car" while Google's self-driving pod crashed
British brand Another Country has commissioned designer Ian McIntyre to create a series of pewter jugs and bowls to complement his original tableware collection for the label. More about Another Country to introduce pewter tableware by Ian McIntyre
The developer behind Foster + Partners' 3 Sutton Place tower on Manhattan's East Side, originally planned to be 290-metres tall, lost a fight to block foreclosure proceedings on the site before declaring itself bankrupt this week. More about Future of Foster + Partners' 3 Sutton Place skyscraper in New York under threat
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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