Dezeen’s A-Zdvent calendar: Arata Isozaki
Sports centre clad with sun-bleached wooden slats by Explorations Architecture
One-room prefab house by Jean Prouvé on sale at Design Miami for $2.5m
New Pinterest board: Dutch houses
Traditional floor tiles arranged in stripes in a Barcelona apartment by Bach Arquitectes
Herzog & de Meuron is “deconstructing stupid architecture” in Miami
Dezeen’s A-Zdvent calendar: Frank Gehry
This week on Dezeen
3D-printed guns cause US to review prohibition of plastic firearms
Job of the week: interior designer at Moooi
London building turned upside down by Alex Chinneck
Wiel Arets completes a glazed house for a vintage car collector
Minimal Nativity Set made of plain wooden blocks by Emilie Voirin
Eindhoven designer Piet Hein Eek: “I always want to make my own stuff”
First collection from new Dublin design brand includes a table with a hammock underneath
Dezeen’s A-Zdvent calendar: Herzog & de Meuron
High-tech lighting installation by Simon Heijdens creates “3D drawings in water”
NL Architects completes turquoise tower that leans over towards the top
Gadget repair shop fitted out in hospital colours by Masquespacio
Daniel Libeskind designs metallic apartment block for Berlin
Juergen Mayer H exhibits stone sculpture based on data-protection patterns in Miami
Optical illusions created by spinning marble disks
Dezeen’s A-Zdvent calendar: Norman Foster