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
This glazed house-shaped gallery sits within an old barn in a English village without appearing to touch the floor, the thick stone walls or the timber-truss roof (+ slideshow). More about Private art gallery by Stonewood Design cantilevers into a 17th-century Cotswolds barn
Work has begun on the new "School of Genius" campus in New York City, which aims to boost the city's burgeoning tech industry (+ slideshow). More about New York's Cornell Tech campus will include buildings by Morphosis and Weiss/Manfredi
Plans to 3D print an entire pedestrian bridge in Amsterdam using robots (pictured), Ole Scheeren's stacked-volume skyscraper in Vancouver and an Australian house inspired by Brazilian Modernist architecture feature in this week's Dezeen Mail. Click through for all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
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Architect Richard Rogers has urged the architectural community to support the preservation of the Brutalist Robin Hood Gardens estate, which he has described as post-war Britain's most important social housing development. More about Richard Rogers calls for architects to help save "exceptional" Robin Hood Gardens
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with the New Designers graduate show to give readers the chance to win tickets to the second part of the event, taking place in London from 1 to 4 July. More about Competition: five pairs of tickets for New Designers 2015 to be won
The sheltered entrance to this craggy school canteen building in France is fronted with a "forest" of slender white columns (+ slideshow). More about Le Roc Canteen by D'Houndt+Bajart is designed as a cross between a treehouse and a cave
Burkinabé architect Diébédo Francis Kéré has created a temporary retail space for shoe brand Camper inside a domed building at the Vitra Campus (+ slideshow). More about Diébédo Francis Kéré's Camper pop-up store opens at the Vitra Campus
Prolific Japanese studio Nendo has designed a bag specifically for architects, which changes shape to accommodate different sizes of drawings. More about Nendo's Architect Bag for Tod's holds long drawings in its middle