Construction work has begun on Foster + Partners' new wing for the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, a project that was first announced in 2013 (+ slideshow). More about Works begins on Foster + Partners' Norton Museum expansion in Florida's West Palm Beach
It's Chinese New Year! To celebrate the beginning of the year of the monkey, we're revisiting some of the best new Chinese architecture on Dezeen, including the world's second tallest building, a sinuous opera house by MAD, and Kengo Kuma's folk-art galleries for the China Academy of Arts. See more new Chinese architecture »
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Architecture studio Hall McKnight has completed a house bridging a stream in Holywood, Northern Ireland, which also features a colonnade-like facade incorporating tall vertical windows (+ slideshow). More about Hall McKnight's Victoria Road house spans a steep-sided stream in Northern Ireland
Pink terrazzo is used alongside natural wood, grey velvet and nickel fixtures inside this Singapore restaurant completed by Barber and Osgerby's Universal Design Studio (+ slideshow). More about Universal Design Studio pairs pink terrazzo with grey velvet for Odette restaurant interior
Stockholm 2016: German designer Konstantin Grcic's debut range of tiles for ceramics brand Mutina feature embossed patterns, and contrasting matte and gloss surfaces (+ slideshow). More about Konstantin Grcic presents first tile collections for Mutina in Stockholm
Japanese architect Tomohiro Hata gave this ridged metal residence in Kobe a staggered plywood interior and a broad pitched roof that follows the sloping terrain (+ slideshow). More about Wide sloping roof shelters plywood-filled house in Kobe by Tomohiro Hata
Protruding bricks create a crown on top of this cylindrical chapel by DANS Architects, which forms the centrepiece of a new church complex in the Slovenian city of Maribor (+ slideshow). More about DANS Architects creates brick "crown" atop Don Bosco Church in Slovenia
Photo essay: Berliner Arndt Schlaudraff creates intricate Lego models of Brutalist and Modernist buildings, and photographs the results for his Instagram account lego_tonic (+ slideshow). More about Arndt Schlaudraff recreates Brutalist buildings in Lego for Instagram
Stockholm 2016: Swedish designer Markus Johansson has created a collection of coffee tables that combine circular and rectangular tops placed at different heights. More about Markus Johansson's Mopsy furniture features double tabletops
Colours and materials are used to mark the different zones of this revamped Antwerp fashion boutique by local studio Dialect, which also features a display case filled with Barbie and Ken dolls (+ slideshow). More about Dialect creates pink interior for Antwerp boutique featuring Barbie cabinet
Designed to looks like a giant staircase, this Oslo office block by Dark Arkitekter completes the trio of buildings housing the headquarters of DNB Bank, created in collaboration with MVRDV and A-Lab (+ slideshow). More about Dark Arkitekter adds staircase-inspired tower to Oslo's fast-developing waterfront
Stockholm 2016: Canadian designer Thom Fougere has created a collection of furniture and homeware based on his home country, including a set of fireplace accessories based on historic tools and tables made from limestone (+ slideshow). More about Thom Fougere creates furniture collection to reflect Canada's "eclectic sensibility"
A concert hall in Poland featuring concrete and crushed brickwork impressed readers this week, so we've visited the Dezeen archives to create a Pinterest board full of awe-inspiring performance venues. Others include a spiky building shortlisted for last year's Mies van der Rohe Award and Herzog & de Meuron's part-completed Hamburg Elbphilharmonie.
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Vertical logs cover the gabled elevations of this rural hotel in southern Portugal, designed by Lisbon studio Future Architecture Thinking (+ slideshow). More about Alentejo Country Hotel features log facades to match the surrounding cork trees
Hungarian designer Zsofia Kollar has used human hair to create a series of scented objects, including a wall hanging and a U-shaped necklace (+ slideshow). More about Zsofia Kollar weaves human hair to create golden perfumed textile
Music: audiovisual artist Kamiel Rongen used his own frozen urine to create visuals in the music video for Dutch musician Marle Thomson's debut track Levitation (+ movie). More about Frozen "pee landscapes" feature in music video for Marle Thomson's Levitation
Movie: gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones describes the reflective aluminium Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, created by Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA in 2009, as "strange and gorgeous" in this exclusive movie. More about SANAA's reflective Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009 "merged into the landscape"
Windows are dotted across the facades of this photographer's house in Brittany, France, allowing sunlight to illuminate different parts of the interior through the day (+ slideshow). More about Square windows puncture Alireza Razavi's monolithic House for a Photographer in Brittany
San Francisco company Cobalt has introduced a line of small planes targeted at design-minded luxury consumers. More about Cobalt introduces "design-centric" small aircraft for luxury buyers
This week on Dezeen: Zaha Hadid became the first woman to be awarded the RIBA Gold Medal this week and used the illustrious occasion to defend her architecture, which she believes is "widely misunderstood" by the mainstream. More about This week, Zaha Hadid won the RIBA Gold Medal and defended her "misunderstood" architecture