N stands for late Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in our fourteenth festive A-Zdvent calendar. This image by photographer Pedro Kok depicts the entrance to the Ibirapuera Auditorium in Sao Paulo, completed in 2005, while the architect's most famous projects include the National Congress of Brazil and the Cathedral of Brasília.
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This week has been all about wearable technology as we discovered shoes that could repair themselves and garments embedded with colour-changing ink (pictured) at the Wearable Futures event in London. Keep reading for more architecture and design news, as well as our Dezeen Music Project featured track. More about This week on Dezeen
Design Miami 2013: artist and designer Sebastian Errazuriz used twelve of his former flames as the inspiration for these 3D-printed shoes, presented at a pop-up shop that opened to coincide with Design Miami. More about Designer 3D-prints shoes representing 12 of his lovers
Danish architects COBE and Transform have completed an aluminium-clad museum of maritime history in Norway with a zigzagging profile modelled on the shapes of local wooden buildings (+ slideshow). More about COBE and Transform complete the zigzagging Porsgrunn Maritime Museum
News: Jony Ive is now more important to Apple than Steve Jobs was when he died and the company "would be in trouble if he left", according to the author of a new biography of the computer giant's chief designer (+ interview). More about Jony Ive "more important to Apple now than Steve Jobs was"
Sunglasses by accessories designer Linda Farrow are presented on golden beams embedded into gravel mounds at this pop-up shop in New York by design studio Neiheiser & Valle (+ slideshow). More about Pop-up shop displays sunglasses on golden girders embedded in gravel
This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a designer/project leader with the studio of Canadian designer Omer Arbel, whose 14 Series lights for Bocci are pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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News: the American Institute of Architects has named Californian architect Julia Morgan as the first female recipient of the AIA Gold Medal, 56 years after her death. More about Julia Morgan becomes first woman to receive AIA Gold Medal
Ammar Basheir and Flower Michelin Limited have designed a retail interior for a west London boutique where garments are displayed within a series of bespoke metal screens (+ slideshow). More about Belgravia boutique reveals evening gowns through bespoke metal screens
Japanese architect Tomohiro Hata planned this suburban house in Hyogo Prefecture as a cluster of three buildings around a courtyard, based on the traditional city residences of farmers, artisans and merchants. More about House N by Tomohiro Hata is based on a traditional Japanese vernacular
Dutch architect and MVRDV co-founder Winy Maas is the letter M in our daily A-Zdvent calendar. The firm's projects include the Balancing Barn (pictured), a house with a 15-metre cantilever, and a shop and office complex disguised as an old farmhouse, but which actually features walls made from glass.
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Bands of light shine through the perforated metal facade of this sports hall by French studio Ateliers O-S Architectes in north-west Paris (+ slideshow). More about Parisian sports hall by Ateliers O-S Architectes with bands of light on its walls
Wearable Futures: alchemist Lauren Bowker has embedded ink that changes colour depending on different climatic conditions into a feathered garment (+ movie). More about Clothes that change colour according to climate by Lauren Bowker
Wearable Futures: researchers at Italian design centre Fabrica have created accessories that would deceive neuroimaging devices by diverting thoughts using electric shocks and flashing lights (+ slideshow). More about Headgear to thwart mind-reading surveillance cameras by Fabrica researchers
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Faceted concrete blocks protrude from one side of this sports hall in Croatia, while its bumpy southern and western walls were made by casting concrete panels over a bed of stones (+ slideshow). More about Concrete-clad sports hall by Idis Turato features both faceted and bumpy facades
American studio Emerging Objects 3D-printed this pavilion using salt harvested from San Francisco Bay (+ slideshow). More about Pavilion made of 3D-printed salt by Emerging Objects
Swiss firm Haberstroh Schneider Architekten has extended a house in Basel by adding a chain of three rooms, creating a new semi-enclosed courtyard that is filled with stepping stones (+ slideshow). More about House extension with stepping stones leading inside by Haberstroh Schneider Architekten
This corrugated paper cabin designed by architect Mattias Lind is printed to resemble black marble on one side of the folds and white marble on the other so it looks different from either side (+ slideshow). More about Chameleon Cabin made from paper changes colour when viewed from either side
Daniel Libeskind is the twelfth addition to our A-Zdvent calendar of architects. Pictured here is the New York architect's extension to the Dresden Museum of Military History, which features a pointed steel and glass shard through the skin of the historic museum, but he also recently unveiled plans to build an angular apartment block in Berlin.
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