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News: plans to recreate the Crystal Palace exhibition hall in south London have been shelved, despite attracting a shortlist of architects including Zaha Hadid, Richard Rogers and David Chipperfield. (more…) View the full article

Four young studios have created installations for Design Biennial Boston, an event that aims to provoke more "architectural imagination" throughout the city (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Iran is "on the verge of a new era for architecture" according to local architects, as change sweeps through the Islamic republic following the lifting of crippling economic sanctions (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Local authorities have been "amazed to see that young women from slums could design as architects or urban planners", according to the co-ordinator of a United Nations initiative using the video game Minecraft to get communities designing their own public spaces. Read more View the full article

A woven white canopy, bamboo cane walls and earthen floors form this workspace for archaeologists on digs in Pachacamac, Peru, which was built by architecture students from Zurich and Lima. Read more

Milan 2016: students from the Lund University have collaborated with the co-founder of Danish brand Hay to produce a range of experimental office furniture especially for small-scale workplaces (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The next sculpture to be erected on the Fourth Plinth in London's Trafalgar Square will be a winged bull by artist Michael Rakowitz, which is based on an ancient Iraqi artefact destroyed by Islamic militant group ISIS. Read more View the full article

Reclaimed cardboard tubing from fabric rolls used by the nearby fashion district line the walls of this Los Angeles store for skincare brand Aesop. Read more View the full article

As technology and artificial intelligence become more integrated into our lives and homes designers have invented ways to avoid surveillance and keep data private. Dezeen assistant editor India Block picks out six of the most interesting. Read more

People's Architecture Office has used 12 shipping containers to build a temporary, red and yellow pavilion in a fast-growing town in China's Shanxi province (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Stuart Semple has released the "flattest, mattest, black acrylic paint in the world" and banned Anish Kapoor from using it, as the latest development in an ongoing feud between the two British artists. Read more

Architect Alejandro Soffia pieced together a series of modules and covered them in bright yellow corrugated panels to form this prefabricated woodland residence in Pucón, Chile. Read more

Two oversized sash-style windows have been added to the back of this two-storey extension by Sydney architects Panovscott, allowing both levels to open up completely to the garden (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The concrete form of this factory for Camp's in Oudenaarde, Belgium, is driven by the mustard production processes and Dhooge & Meganck's desire to create a building with "soul". Read more

Delta Light's first Italian showroom in Milan will educate visitors on architectural lighting says the Belgian lighting brand's manager for Italy Gianluca D'Avino in this movie produced by Dezeen. Read more

Dezeen has gone daily! Today we're launching a new email service bringing you all the headlines from Dezeen every day. And we're calling it - guess what? - Dezeen Daily! (more...) View the full article

Ben Davidson of London studio Rodić Davidson Architects designed this garden shed in Cambridge, England, to the exact proportions of his grandfather's old workbench and added pegboard walls for displaying a collection of handmade tools (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Zaha Hadid's revised Tokyo Olympic stadium design and new photos of her Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul (pictured) feature in Dezeen Mail issue 210, along with the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 210 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Gianni Botsford Architects worked with translucent concrete to create this boxy garden pavilion in Zurich, dedicated to "the old fashioned art of smoking" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Inside Festival 2015: a converted stable home featuring a treehouse-like bedroom and a hotel featuring a sculptural timber entrance are among the first category winners at this year's Inside Festival awards (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Studio Fuksas, Marc Newson and David Kohn Architects, whose apartment renovation in Barcelona was named World Interior of the Year in 2013. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with OMA, Pininfarina, Heatherwick Studio and more... (more…) View the full article

Another skyscraper is set for San Francisco's SoMa district, this time by Italian architect Renzo Piano. Read more View the full article

Architect Joris Verhoeven chose hand-moulded bricks for the walls of this asymmetric gabled house in the Dutch village of Riel (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: west London-based watch brand Freedom To Exist has launched a minimal timepiece that is designed to reference the classic detailing seen on vintage watches. (more…) View the full article

A high-end hair salon and family home are separated by a courtyard planted with a single tree in this building designed by Tokyo firm Apollo Architects & Associates in the Japanese city of Hamamatsu (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article