This house for a retired couple in the Norwegian city of Grimstad features a brick base supporting a wedge-shaped timber roof that incorporates a balcony overlooking the nearby fjords (+ slideshow). More about Schjelderup Trondahl Architects' Vardåsen House is topped with an angular timber box
This week on Dezeen: critics spoke to Dezeen about how China's museum boom has resulted in cultural buildings with "no vision", while other industry experts told us that rising sea levels are sparking interest in amphibious architecture. More about This week, critics slammed China's "mediocre" museums and praised floating architecture
Sports brand Adidas has created a concept trainer with an upper made using waste plastic filtered out of the oceans and a 3D-printed midsole created from recycled fishing nets. More about Adidas combines ocean plastic and 3D printing for eco-friendly trainers
Hennebery Eddy Architects has clad a fire station in rural Oregon with charred wood, turning "the destructive manner of fire into an image of beauty" (+ slideshow). More about Oregon fire station by Hennebery Eddy features a burnt wood facade
Design Miami 2015: Revolution Precrafted is aiming to "democratise high-design and architecture" with prefab structures by over 30 famous designers including Tom Dixon, Marcel Wanders, Kengo Kuma and Zaha Hadid. More about Revolution Precrafted recruits famous architects and designers to create prefab homes
Design Miami 2015: traditional automotive brands "don't need to be scared" of upstarts including Tesla and Apple – and the cars of the future may not be electric, according to Audi's head of experiential marketing. More about Car brands unafraid of Tesla's electric challenge, says Audi marketing head
Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a communications director at Studio Gang, which recently unveiled plans for a geologically-inspired extension to the American Museum of Natural History (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Dezeen has won the Best Use of Video category at the Professional Publishers Association's annual awards for independent publishers. More about Dezeen wins independent publishing award for "elegantly made and truly engaging video"
London-based Heatherwick Studio and Canadian firm Diamond Schmitt have been selected to replace Foster + Partners on the overhaul of Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall, home to one of New York's leading orchestras. More about Thomas Heatherwick to redesign home of New York Philharmonic orchestra
Movie: in our next movie for Dubai Design Week, Global Grad Show curator Brendan McGetrick explains why it was important to present an exhibition of student projects at Dubai's inaugural design festival. More about Global Grad Show brought "groundbreaking" student work from around the world to Dubai
The Tower of London's famous resident ravens have a new home in a set of oak and mesh-encased aviaries designed by local firm Llowarch Llowarch Architects (+ slideshow). More about Llowarch Llowarch Architects completes raven enclosure for the Tower of London
Buckminster Fuller's principles of tensegrity informed the structural design of the Kurilpa Bridge in Brisbane, the latest addition to the Dezeen A-Zdvent calendar. More about Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar: Kurilpa Bridge by Cox Rayner Architects and Arup
Perkins Eastman Architects' Green Line concept would see New York's iconic Broadway converted into a linear park running from Columbus Circle to Union Square. More about Perkins Eastman proposes turning New York's Broadway into one long park
China's rush to build thousands of new museums is leading to cultural buildings "with no vision and mediocre collections", according to architects and curators in the country (+ slideshow). More about China "can't buy culture" with museum boom, say critics
Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a curator of 20th century and contemporary furniture at London's V&A Museum, where Mischer'Traxler filled a room with interactive glass bubbles (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Microsoft employees have moved into a new metal-clad headquarters in Denmark, designed by Henning Larsen Architects but based on a paper written by the tech company's founder Bill Gates (+ slideshow). More about Henning Larsen Architects bases Microsoft headquarters on Bill Gates' workplace theory
Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola has revamped Cassina's showroom in Midtown Manhattan for her first major project since joining the Italian furniture brand as art director (+ slideshow). More about Patricia Urquiola overhauls Cassina's New York showroom
A water-filled patio with a slatted roof cuts into one corner of this L-shaped house near Córdoba, Argentina, which was designed by Agustín Lozada for a young family (+ slideshow). More about Glass walls and terraces frame views from bright white house in Argentina
Influential US magazine Sight Unseen has launched an LA exhibition of work by local designers in response to the city's resurgence as a centre for design (+ slideshow). More about Sight Unseen's LA exhibition showcases work from "focal point of the American design scene"
A women's athletic shop in Seattle by local firm goCstudio features a display system that can be elevated with a hand crank to make way for in-store events (+ slideshow). More about Seattle running store by goCstudio has hanging racks that can be raised toward the ceiling