Japanese studio CAPD has used large wooden boxes to created rooms and mezzanine floors within a house in Tokushima Prefecture (+ slideshow). (more…)

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American director Spike Jonze has used an iconic Los Angeles music hall by Modernist architect Welton Becket as the venue for a four-minute perfume advert for French fashion house Kenzo (+ movie). (more…)

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Opinion: with the exemplary restoration of Alvar Aalto’s seminal Viipuri/Vyborg Library, Finland has schooled Russia in how to treat its neglected 20th century buildings. Now they need to restore the rest of the city, says Owen Hatherley. (more…)

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Items are displayed upon a series of pine structures inside this accessories store in Ansião, Portugal. (more…)

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Architecture students have built a train-inspired party pavilion in the grounds of a former factory, featuring a glowing wooden carriage that shuttles along a raised platform (+ slideshow) (more…)

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Herzog & de Meuron’s Tate Modern Switch House, Ikea’s flatpack refugee shelter, and the artwork for David Bowie’s final album are among projects nominated for the Design Museum‘s Designs of the Year awards 2016 (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Work has completed on the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture by British architect David Adjaye, which is poised to open next month (+ slideshow). (more…)

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US firm Lloyd Architects has completed a new barn in Utah for a family that has been farming the same land since the 1800s (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Saint Martin-based designer Alexandre Chapelin combined resin and stone to create a table that resembles ocean reefs (+ slideshow).  (more…)

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A pavilion designed by the late Zaha Hadid for London’s Serpentine Gallery has been installed in the grounds of a stately home England’s Peak District, ahead of its sale. (more…)

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