Foster + Partners has revealed its plans for a creative community in Dubai modelled on the fashionable neighbourhoods of New York’s Meatpacking District and east London’s Shoreditch. (more…)

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Italian architect Antonino Cardillo has created a multi-sensory space for experiencing and buying fragrance by coating a room inside an old London building with volcanic ash (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Milan 2015: Dutch designers Maarten Baas and Bertjan Pot have combined their distinct styles to create a range of lamps and light-up mirrors for handmade products manufacturer DHPH. (more…)

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Dutch firm Mecanoo has completed its first project in the United States: an asymmetrical, brick-clad municipal building in a historic neighbourhood in Boston (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Milan Expo 2015: over 1,000 bamboo panels clad the roof of China’s Milan Expo pavilion, which features an elaborate structure that merges the profile of the Beijing skyline with a mountain landscape (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Interview: to mark the opening of the British pavilion for the Milan Expo, Dezeen speaks to sculptor Wolfgang Buttress about trying to create a “quiet” structure in the middle of one of the world’s biggest displays of “bombastic” temporary architecture (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Google’s new California headquarters by Bjarke Ingels and Thomas Heatherwick is set to be built using robot-crane hybrids. (more…)

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Comments update: readers have described OMA’s new arts centre in Milan, which is partially clad in 24-karat gold leaf, as “sublime” and “ridiculous” this week – read on for more on this and the other most commented stories on Dezeen. (more…)

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