Shanghai studio Neri&Hu has used wooden sticks and sandstone slabs to create a cavernous interior for a new cultural centre in the city’s emerging Hongqiao district (+ slideshow). (more…)

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To gain views of Canada’s Lake Erie from a sheltered plot, architecture firm Kariouk Associates designed this house to include a “love nest” that pokes above the treetops (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Design studio Minorpoet has overhauled a 1960s apartment in Tokyo to create a simple home and workplace that has its kitchen hidden behind folding wooden doors (+ slideshow). (more…)

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A pointy wooden roof tops this concrete house in Tokyo, which led Apollo Architects & Associates to name the building Hat. (more…)

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Korean design studios Cloudandco and 11+ have teamed up to create this pocket-sized wireless speaker that can be mounted onto a fridge (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Patterned grills screen the windows of this terrazzo-covered house in Ho Chi Minh City, which has been designed by local studio Sanuki Daisuke Architects to make the most of the site’s little natural light (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Providing sweeping views of a wilderness reserve was the primary goal for US studio Lubrano Ciavarra when designing this large wood-and-slate holiday home in Rhode Island (+ slideshow). (more…)

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London Design Festival 2016: with this year’s London Design Festival less than a month away, Dezeen’s Alice Morby selects her pick of the best installations and exhibitions that will be taking place across the capital. (more…)

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Soho House & Co’s in-house design team and London architects Michaelis Boyd have overhauled a run-down farm in Oxfordshire to create Soho Farmhouse – a hotel that combines English countryside style with “upstate New York cabin culture” (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Comments update: readers are discussing Thomas Heatherwick’s controversial Garden Bridge this week after the British designer suggested that ditching the project so soon after Britain’s vote to leave the European Union would be a step “backwards” for the country. (more…)

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