Architecture firm Snøhetta has designed a series of new structures including a glass play tower with a faceted facade, as part of an expansion to the Swarovski Kristallwelten attraction in Austria (+ slideshow). More about Snøhetta designs new buildings for reopening of Swarovski's crystal theme park
Dezeen promotion: the first designjunction edit New York will open on the 15 May, presenting the latest furniture and lighting from leading international designers during NYCxDesign. More about Designjunction edit New York to make US debut during NYCxDesign
The American market for high-end design is "growing incredibly" according to European brands, who are opening showrooms and restructuring their US businesses to take advantage of booming sales. More about European design brands target America amid booming demand for luxury design
The Szczecin Philharmonic Hall in Poland by Spanish studio Barozzi Veiga has won the European Union's architecture prize, the Mies van der Rohe Award 2015. More about Szczecin Philharmonic Hall wins Mies van der Rohe Award 2015
Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for experienced healthcare architects at Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron, whose design for a research and development facility and corporate headquarters for pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Renzo Piano has designed a limited-edition bag for Italian fashion house Max Mara modelled after his latest project: New York's Whitney Museum, which opened to the public last week (+ slideshow). More about Renzo Piano designs handbag to match new Whitney Museum
Latticed and LED-illuminated climbing frames and a geometric-patterned sun seat are among the installations to be erected in the Nevada desert for the Burning Man arts festival this summer (+ slideshow). More about London architecture students design desert pavilions for Burning Man festival
Milan 2015: a tube-shaped backrest wraps around this seat by German designer Konstantin Grcic that has "a hint of a cartoon character". More about Konstantin Grcic's Sam Son chair for Magis has a backrest like a pool noodle
Milan Expo 2015: climbing frame meets bouncy castle inside Brazil's Expo pavilion, where Studio Arthur Casas and Atelier Marko Brajović have suspended a huge rope canopy over a garden (+ slideshow). More about Brazil's Expo pavilion contains a bouncy landscape of suspended rope
Prominent names in the contemporary art world are fighting to save the Russell Page-designed viewing garden at New York's Frick Collection museum. More about Artists rally to protect Russell Page garden at New York's Frick museum
Chicago is expected to be named as the location for the Obama presidential library next week, with David Adjaye tipped to be the project's architect. More about Adjaye in the frame for Obama library ahead of official announcement
Opinion: the ideals of Modernism can't survive the pressures of a voracious market that views buildings purely as capital, says Reinier de Graaf. More about "The same architecture that once embodied social mobility now helps to prevent it"
The future of Google's new BIG- and Heatherwick-designed California headquarters is in jeopardy – because social network LinkedIn has been given most of the land required to build it. More about LinkedIn blocks BIG and Heatherwick's proposed Google HQ
Dezeen has won Commercial Campaign of the Year at the British Media Awards 2015 for our Dezeen and MINI Frontiers collaboration, beating publishers including News UK, Trinity Mirror and Time Inc. More about Dezeen wins Commercial Campaign of the Year at the British Media Awards 2015
A plot left unused for decades because of its awkward triangular shape is now the home of this concrete cafe designed by South Korean office Studio GAON (+ slideshow). More about Studio GAON completes a concrete cafe beside a dual carriageway in South Korea
This week's Dezeen Mail includes OMA's Fondazione Prada, a ranking of the world's top architecture schools and Daniel Libeskind's dragon-inspired pavilion at the Milan Expo. Click through for all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
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Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati added concrete fins to the walls of this house in rural Portugal, which splay outwards and inwards like the flaps of an open box to provide shade for a garden within (+ slideshow). More about Splayed concrete walls give Valerio Olgiati's Villa Além the appearance of an open box
Dezeen promotion: Spanish design company Sancal has released its latest furniture range, which features tessellating chairs and tables designed by Valencian studio Yonoh (+ slideshow). More about Sancal's 2015 collection includes furniture that pieces together like a puzzle
The Museum of Shit is housed in an Italian castle and is dedicated to demonstrating "what a useful and living substance crap really is" (+ slideshow). More about Italy's Museo della Merda is full of shit
These two metal-clad towers featuring stepped forms and angular balconies were designed to prove that, after years of skyscraper restrictions in Paris, height is no longer taboo (+ slideshow). More about Paris' tallest housing block in over 40 years is clad with gold and silver metal