Dutch studio 70F Architecture has created a pair of matching – but not identical – houses in Almere, featuring large windows that bring light into the circulation spaces rather than the living rooms (+ slideshow). More about 70F Architecture completes a pair of matching homes for a brother and sister
Tokyo architecture studio Sinato added a L-shaped wall into the centre of this apartment in Japan to partition off space for two new bedrooms (+ slideshow). More about Sinato hides two bedrooms behind an L-shaped wall in Fujigaoka M apartment
London Design Festival 2014: British designer Bethan Gray has created a colourful collection of upholstered seating for furniture brand Workhouse (+ slideshow). More about Bethan Gray covers Ella furniture for Workhouse in brightly coloured upholstery
Behind the black steel exterior of this home on the Stockholm archipelago, Tham & Videgård Arkitekter has created a living space with vaulted ceilings, and bedrooms with one big skylight overhead (+ slideshow). More about Tham & Videgård's Husarö House is a scenic retreat on the Stockholm archipelago
This week we published the winner of the architectural photograph of the year award, futuristic trains for London and a building designed by Zaha Hadid for Cambodian genocide researchers (pictured). Read on for more architecture and design highlights, plus our track of the week. More about This week on Dezeen
The green-tiled facade of this Lisbon townhouse by Camarim Arquitectos has varying textures and opacities designed to reference the building that previously stood on the site (+ slideshow). More about Camarim Arquitectos pays homage to Lisbon's decorative houses with a patterned-tile facade
News: the city of Almere in the Netherlands has selected a small curvy chapel designed by architect René van Zuuk to be constructed over the surface of the Weerwater lake. More about Zinc-clad chapel by René van Zuuk to be built over Almere's city lake
News: architects have been selected for two of three new "iconic" train stations in Paris that will be built as part of the Grand Paris Express ring-route rail project. More about Miralles Tagliabue and Elizabeth de Portzamparc to design new Paris metro stations
This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a senior project manager at Studioilse, whose interior design for a five-storey apartment building in Hong Kong is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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External staircases connect the three stories of this cast-concrete house overlooking a lake in Norway by architect Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk (+ slideshow). More about Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk completes "labyrinth-like" concrete home in Norway
French architect Jean Nouvel teamed up with botanist Patrick Blanc to create this pair of plant-covered Sydney towers that reflect light into their lower levels with a huge cantilevered panel of mirrors. More about Jean Nouvel's Sydney towers boast vertical gardens and a huge sunlight reflector
British architect Simon Astridge has added a leather-lined dressing room as part of a refurbishment of a London house (+ slideshow). More about Simon Astridge lines a walk-through dressing room in leather
Danish architecture firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen has completed a public library in Edmonton, Canada, with a metallic facade and large windows designed to draw visitors inside (+ slideshow). More about Schmidt Hammer Lassen's Canadian library mimics the angular roofs of its neighbours
London Design Festival 2014: Adelaide-based design studio Daniel Emma has moved into larger scale furniture and lighting for the first time with a collection launched at the London Design Festival. More about Daniel Emma launches first furniture and lighting range
These new images by photographers Hufton + Crow reveal the curving details of the two glasshouses at Thomas Heatherwick's visitor facility for British gin brand Bombay Sapphire (+ slideshow). More about Thomas Heatherwick's Bombay Sapphire distillery photographed by Hufton + Crow
This one-bedroom apartment in Barcelona has been remodelled by Nook Architects to include a second bedroom, as well as built-in storage around three arched doorways (+ slideshow). More about Nook Architects squeezes a second bedroom into a Barcelona apartment
News: Zaha Hadid has unveiled designs for a new Cambodian institution made up of five interwoven wooden towers to house the largest archive of genocide-related documents in Southeast Asia (+ movie). More about Zaha Hadid designs a wooden building for Cambodian genocide researchers
Rough concrete columns are juxtaposed with bright blue aluminium panels at the soon-to-open Issey Miyake flagship store in London by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka (+ slideshow + interview). More about Tokujin Yoshioka designs London flagship store for Issey Miyake
Opinion: driven by economics and overly concerned with "iconic" design and star names, international design fairs have lost their way. But BIO 50, the design biennial in Ljublana, offers a refreshing alternative, says Louise Schouwenberg. More about "Design fairs fail to represent what's going on in the rest of the world"
Driverless trains for the London Underground, Snøhetta-designed banknotes for Norway and Ole Scheeren's "important prototype" for housing in Singapore (pictured), feature in Dezeen Mail issue 223. Click through for all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
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