Dezeen promotion: Dezeen has teamed up with Japanese brand Muji to put together a Christmas gift guide, featuring festive candles, skincare sourced from Japanese mountains and winter accessories. More about Muji's Christmas gift guide features Japanese skincare products and festive candles
Architecture and design tutors and academics are participating in strikes across the UK this week over pension cuts, falling pay and poor working conditions at their universities. More about Architecture and design tutors join UK university walkouts over pay and pensions
Vietnamese studio ODDO Architects has found enough room for a five-storey family home on a backland plot measuring just four metres wide and six metres deep. More about ODDO Architects builds TH House on tiny infill plot in Hanoi
Next in our review of 2021 is a roundup of 10 architectural photography projects featured on Dezeen this year, from those capturing the brutalist buildings of Madrid to snaps of American cell phone towers disguised as palm trees. More about Dezeen's top 10 architectural photography projects of 2021
Japanese architect Kumiko Inui sheds light on her redevelopment of Nobeoka Station in Japan during the final Models Talk film published in collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Architecture. More about Kumiko Inui presents "porous" Nobeoka Station revamp in short film by CCA
Following the unveiling of a stadium in Qatar made from 974 containers, we have rounded up 12 diverse projects that make use of the shipping containers including buildings by BIG and Kengo Kuma. More about Twelve buildings that demonstrate the breadth of shipping-container architecture
Local architect Germane Barnes has worked with students at the University of Miami to create a wireframe sculpture of a conceptual electric car for Lexus at Design Miami. More about Germane Barnes works with University of Miami students to create wireframe Lexus installation at Design Miami
Angular panels of plywood disguise the structural shell of the Yoridoko jobcentre in Shingu, Japan, designed by architecture studio Td-Atelier. More about Td-Atelier erects plywood "stage set" inside Shingu employment centre
We've selected five of the best US-based positions on Dezeen Jobs this week, including an interior designer in New York and a project architect in Los Angeles. More about Five architecture and design jobs in the US including roles at Soho House and ASH NYC
Malaysian gynaecologist John Tang has created a condom made from polyurethane that can be worn by both males and females during sex. More about "World's first" unisex condom created by Wondaleaf
San Francisco firm Aidlin Darling Design has completed a low-slung home in California's Palm Desert that is intended to contrast the boulders and trees found in its remote setting. More about Boulders and pine trees surround High Desert Retreat by Aidlin Darling Design
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features an emergency cabin perched on the Dolomite Mountains in Italy. More about An emergency cabin features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter
Spatial designer and artist Adi Goodrich has filled the Dreams lifestyle store in Los Angeles' Atwater Village with colourful surrealist details, including a lobster phone and a "glowing" blue rock. More about Adi Goodrich designs surrealist Los Angeles store Dreams with blue rock at its centre
The futuristic exterior of the much-anticipated Taipei Performing Arts Center, designed by OMA, has been photographed in Taiwan ahead of its official opening in 2022. More about Long-awaited Taipei Performing Arts Center by OMA captured ahead of opening
Dezeen promotion: architects can now create visualisations of their projects directly in CAD, using Enscape's real-time rendering plug-in. More about Enscape brings architectural visualisation into 3D modelling software
Portuguese practice Box Arquitectos has completed a narrow, white home in the dense urban centre of Ponta Delgado, with two volumes that face each other across a long garden. More about Box Arquitectos tucks Windmill House into skinny site in Portugal
Ever have the urge to get away from it all and retreat to a cosy cabin somewhere quiet and remote? In the second roundup of our review of 2021, we pick out 10 of the best cabins on Dezeen this year, including a metal tube in Russia and a house on stilts in the Brazilian forest. More about Dezeen's top 10 cabins of 2021
The row over how the fire-gutted Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris should be restored has restarted as plans to give the interior a tourist-friendly makeover are emerging. More about Controversy over Notre-Dame restoration reignites as plans for "Disney" interiors emerge
In the second Models Talk film published in collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Japanese architect Kazuko Akamatsu explains how she used voids to create a feeling of openness at the Shibuya Stream skyscraper in Japan. More about Kazuko Akamatsu outlines Shibuya skyscraper design in video by CCA
An autonomous recycling machine designed by Taiwanese company Miniwiz, which can be transplanted into local communities to transform plastic waste into useful products, has received the 2021 World Design Impact Prize. More about Mobile AI-powered recycling plant Trashpresso wins World Design Impact Prize