Dutch organisation What Design Can Do has launched an international competition to help find solutions for refugees facing a wide variety of challenges. More about What Design Can Do launches design challenge to create solutions for refugees
Taking influences from the vernacular houses of the southern US, this low-cost house in Houston by ZDES architects is designed to accommodate a family, but can be divided up to allow the owners to rent out private areas. More about Shotgun Chameleon house in Houston designed to help its owners offset their mortgage
Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a project architect at Hassell, whose projects include an angled terracotta facade for the University of Queensland's engineering building (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Dezeen design editor Dan Howarth's selection of the best graduate collections from London College of Fashion's MA Womenswear this year includes dresses made using PVC flooring and skirts constructed from plywood. More about Dezeen's top five collections from London College of Fashion MA Womenswear 2016
London office Studio Octopi has returned to a house it renovated over five years ago to add a loft extension, creating a study and a reading room connected by a perforated steel staircase (+ slideshow). More about Studio Octopi adds plywood-lined loft extension to RCA professor's house
Stockholm 2016: Norwegian designer Andreas Engesvik has added a lounge chair with oversized cushions to his collection of furniture for Stockholm brand Fogia. More about Andreas Engesvik's Bollo chair for Fogia contrasts large cushions with thin frame
A decommissioned Soviet rocket is the centrepiece for this sculptural cast-concrete office in York, England, designed by Make Architects for insurance company Hiscox (+ slideshow). More about Hiscox office building by Make Architects features a grand staircase and a Soviet rocket
A new taco restaurant in Austin, Texas, by Chioco Design references mid-century American roadside buildings and signage with bright red columns and a distinctive roofline (+ slideshow). More about Torchy's Tacos by Chioco Design references 1950s roadside architecture
Movie: in the final instalment of our exclusive video series, Serpentine Gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones reflects on Smiljan Radić's use of handmade paper models to design his bulbous pavilion in 2014. More about Model making was key to the design of Smiljan Radić's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in 2014
New images of a planned 304-metre-tall tower in Brooklyn by SHoP Architects have been revealed in advance of a review by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. More about New images of SHoP's supertall Brooklyn tower revealed
This year's Lisbon Architecture Triennale chief curator Diogo Seixas Lopes, who has been described as one of the most important thinkers on Portuguese architecture, has died. More about Lisbon Architecture Triennale curator Diogo Seixas Lopes dies aged 43
The logo to support Los Angeles' 2024 Olympic bid features a multicoloured angel-like figure in reference to the city's name (+ movie). More about Los Angeles unveils logo to accompany 2024 Olympic bid
This week's Dezeen Mail features Eurostar's redesign "disaster", a mile-high skyscraper proposal for Tokyo and an e-ink mobile phone designed to prevent users from acting like "mindless zombies" (pictured).
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Supermarket receipts could introduce graphics showing nutritional information to help solve the "obesity epidemic", proposes UK designer Hayden Peek. More about Hayden Peek aims to tackle obesity with supermarket receipt graphics
Architects office McGonigle McGrath has been granted planning permission to transform a heritage-listed war memorial building in Belfast, Northern Ireland, into a boutique hotel. More about McGonigle McGrath to convert Belfast memorial building into boutique hotel
British artist Damien Hirst has created the interiors for his own restaurant inside the Caruso St John-designed Newport Street Gallery in Vauxhall, London – 13 years after his last restaurant closed (+ slideshow). More about Damien Hirst designs his second Pharmacy restaurant for Newport Street Gallery
Dutch landscape firm West 8 has masterplanned a new botanical garden in Houston, Texas, featuring a mosaic of gardens and a bridge incorporating an arch of trees. More about West 8 plans botanical garden for Houston featuring an arching tree bridge
American electronics company Polaroid has launched a range of 3D printers, aiming to make "3D printing become part of everyone's everyday life". More about Polaroid becomes "first household name" to launch home 3D printer range
The trio of white concrete blocks that form this Mexico City home have been arranged around a shallow pool and a tree by architecture studio Taller Hector Barroso (+ slideshow). More about White concrete house by Taller Hector Barroso surrounds a tranquil pool