This social housing development in Zingem, Belgium, responds to its location between a busy road and an agrarian landscape with a "ranch-like" arrangement of buildings framing a central courtyard (+ slideshow). More about Volt Architecten's Belgian housing scheme is designed to look like a farmstead
New Zealand studio Designtree has added a corner module to its flat-pack Frankie lighting system, enabling a range of new configurations including X shapes and loops. More about New module enables Frankie Pendant light to go around corners
This brick maisonette in London's Primrose Hill has been modernised with a plywood-clad circulation tower and an elevated terrace overlooking Regent's Park (+ slideshow). More about Studio Gil adds stairwell extension to a Modernist home in Primrose Hill
Embedded in the garden of an English countryside cottage, this small studio with a green roof and patinated copper walls creates a secluded spot for deer-watching (+ slideshow). More about Copper-clad studio by Stonewood Design is also a hide for wildlife watching
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to offer readers the chance to win one of five pairs of tickets to a talk with Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima, co-founder of SANAA. More about Competition: win tickets to Kazuyo Sejima's talk at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This week on Dezeen we reported on plans for Álvaro Siza's first building in the US, the opening of the OMA-designed Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, and a remote cabin in Washington state (pictured). Read on to catch up with the latest architecture, interiors and design news, plus our track of the week. More about This week on Dezeen
Coop Himmelb(l)au founder Wolf D Prix explains how the design of his House of Music concert hall in Denmark was influenced by a monastery by Le Corbusier in this movie by architectural filmmakers Spirit of Space. More about House of Music represents a "very simple but powerful typology" says Wolf D Prix
Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a public relations officer at the New York office of OMA, who designed the polycarbonate-clad Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow's Gorky Park (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Opinion: a reactionary government policy from 1899 has turned Washington DC into a city of low buildings, expensive floor space and rampant inequality. A few skyscrapers could change all that, says Matthew Yglesias, executive editor of Vox. More about "Washington DC's aversion to skyscrapers has turned it into an American Versailles"
Movie: leading designers and architects including Michael Young and David Adjaye talk about their participation in Clerkenwell Design Week 2015 in this movie produced by Dezeen for the festival. More about Clerkenwell Design Week 2015 video highlights
Design Miami/Basel 2015: British designer Max Lamb has created a bathroom suite for Dzek from speckled synthetic marble and installed the products in a space lined with the same material. More about Max Lamb installs multicoloured manmade-marble bathroom at Design/Miami Basel 2015
New construction images show this year's colourful Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Spanish architects José Selgas and Lucía Cano, which is rapidly nearing completion ahead of its opening next week (+ slideshow). More about SelgasCano's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion nears completion
Danish firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has completed a 30,000-square-metre library in Aarhus, Denmark, with a faceted metal-clad volume on top and a new train station underneath (+ slideshow). More about Schmidt Hammer Lassen completes Scandinavia's largest library
Chinese architecture office MAD has unveiled designs for a residential project resembling a hilltop village for Beverly Hills in Los Angeles. More about MAD designs hilltop village for Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills
Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an urban designer at Danish studio CEBRA, whose sports hall in the town of Løgstør was built using a modular system based on the principles of a Meccano model-making set (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has been commissioned to design a luxury condominium tower in New York City – his first American project. More about Álvaro Siza's first US project to be a luxury residential tower in Manhattan
Colourfully painted window shutters form the facade and roof of this guest house and kitchen in Ho Chi Minh City, designed by local studio Block Architects (+ slideshow). More about Facade of colourful shutters allows light and wind into Block Architects' Vegan House
Design Miami/Basel 2015: this inhabitable sculpture by Dutch studio Atelier van Lieshout is a cross between a luxury lounge and a primitive dwelling (+ slideshow). More about Atelier van Lieshout sculpts a hybrid cave dwelling and pool house
This Vietnam community centre by architecture studio 1+2>3 features bamboo roofs thatched with coconut leaves, which pitch inwards to direct rainwater towards a series of planted courtyards (+ slideshow). More about Cam Thanh Community House in Vietnam features thatched roofing and secluded courtyards
Extra Moooi: Dutch furniture and lighting brand Moooi has launched a range of hotel bath and shower products with a "strong and outstanding scent". In this movie, co-founder Casper Vissers explains why the move is about brand recognition, not turnover. More about Moooi launches range of hotel soaps and shampoos to extend its brand