Pomo summer: the Piazza d'Italia in New Orleans, designed by Charles Moore, is one of the few icons of Postmodern architecture that isn't a building, and is next in our summer season on Postmodernism. More about Postmodern architecture: Piazza d'Italia, New Orleans by Charles Moore
Fernando Romero and two other Mexican architects have unveiled plans to transform Mexico City's Avenida Chapultepec into a public park featuring trees, cafe plazas, a raised promenade and water features. More about Mexican architects to create public park in the centre of a busy Mexico City road
After 18 months exploring the intersection between design and technology, our multi-award-winning collaboration with MINI has come to an end. From music-making gloves to glow-in-the-dark trees, here's our round up of the five most popular movies in the series. More about Explore design and technology innovations with top Dezeen and MINI Frontiers movies
Developers in London claim to be building the world's first sky pool, but an even more extreme suspended glass-bottomed swimming pool is already underway in India (+ movie). More about Transparent swimming pool to bridge Indian tower blocks 12 storeys up
The culture, climate and resources of Tanzania's Kilimanjaro region informed the design of this refuge for victims of domestic violence, made up of various yellow buildings arranged around a courtyard (+ slideshow). More about Hollmén Reuter Sandman uses local materials and motifs for Kilimanjaro women's refuge
This month, Swedish furniture giant IKEA launched its first collection with British designer Ilse Crawford in stores and saw its modular kitchens hacked by some of Denmark's best architects. We've collected together 13 of our favourite Ikea designs and hacks from Dezeen's archive – from furniture for space-poor hipsters to a bar made from storage boxes. More about 13 of Dezeen's favourite IKEA designs and hacks
Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a Japanese-speaking architect at Beijing-based MAD Architects, which has proposed the Nanjing Zendai Himalayas Center project (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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The sides of this 4.5 metre-high stilted cabin lift open to offer inhabitants an uninterrupted view of the Latvian landscape (+ slideshow). More about The Wild Thing is a "creature-like" cabin that stands tall above a Latvian wildflower meadow
Bradley Van Der Straeten Architects has created a plywood and oak residence within a Stoke Newington coach house that was once the home of Anna Sewell, the author of the Black Beauty novel. More about Plywood and oak rooms feature inside renovated former home of Black Beauty author Anna Sewell
Dutch studio Atelier Van Lieshout has unveiled its largest installation to date: a giant art village at the Ruhrtriennale arts festival in west Germany (+ slideshow). More about Atelier Van Lieshout takes over German festival with The Good, The Bad and The Ugly installation
This Seoul residential block was designed by local studio Archihood WXY to look like a cluster of four buildings, with each facade featuring a gabled profile in just one corner (+ slideshow). More about Seoul apartment block by Archihood WXY features tunnel-like balconies and gabled corners
American firm Arquitectonica has completed a residential tower in Miami with a crinkled facade and a public park that passes underneath the raised building (+ slideshow). More about Arquitectonica creates waterfront tower in Miami with a sculptural facade
Amsterdam fashion designer Karim Adduchi has paid tribute to his Berber heritage by adapting traditional carpets into frayed and patterned garments. More about Karim Adduchi turns Berber rugs into fashion collection
Pomo summer: Postmodernism is still shaping contemporary architecture, says Owen Hatherley, but its impact on social housing is an unforgivable legacy. More about "Postmodernism will not be forgiven lightly for what it did to architectural culture"
Movie: next up in our exclusive video series celebrating the 15th Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones looks back at how Zaha Hadid's marquee from 2000 launched the annual commission. More about Zaha Hadid's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion set the bar for what followed, says Julia Peyton-Jones
A planned "sky pool" between two apartment blocks in London, garments made out of recycled ocean plastic by Pharrell Williams and a proposal for shipping-container skyscrapers (pictured) feature in this week's Dezeen Mail. There's also the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
More about Dezeen Mail #267 features a selection of this week's best stories and discussions
Northmodern 2015: Stockholm studio TAF Architects has contributed a spun aluminium pendant to Danish brand Muuto's lighting collection. More about TAF Architects' lightweight aluminium Ambit pendant joins Muuto collection
Winy Maas of MVRDV explains how his design for a "big building composed of mini units" created a headquarters for Norway's DNB Bank interspersed with indoor and outdoor meeting places, in the penultimate movie from our exclusive series (+ movie). More about MVRDV used pixellated forms to make DNB Bank "human and approachable" says Winy Maas
A brick wall almost completely conceals this small courtyard house that London architect Jack Woolley has completed on a former garden site in south London (+ slideshow). More about Jack Woolley's Spiral House is hidden behind a simple brick wall
Once the preserve of independent product designers, crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter are evolving into powerful tools for financing and testing public appetite for architecture and infrastructure projects.
Recent examples include BIG's campaign to raise money for a prototype power plant chimney and a pedestrian bridge described as the "world’s first crowdfunded public infrastructure project". See more crowdfunded projects on Dezeen »
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