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To continue our quarterly guide to the best architecture and design exhibitions around the world, we've chosen 10 of the best to visit. To find out about industry events taking place in April, May and June, such as Milan design week, look at our comprehensive month-by-month guide. Read more

Swiss firm Daluz Gonzalez Architekten has set a nest-like terrace into the roof of an angular house it has completed in a forest near Basel, Switzerland (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

CES 2015: Taiwanese company Gogoro has revealed what it describes as the "world's first Smartscooter", with a network of battery-swapping stations that could allow its power cells to be changed in just six seconds (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

The Flight 93 crash-site memorial built to commemorate the victims of 9/11 opened to the public today in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, marking the 14th anniversary of the attacks. (more…) View the full article

Design studio Marcante-Testa used pink clay partitions, copper pipes, and panels of plexiglass to form an "architectural landscape" inside this Milan fashion store. Read more

Corrugated cladding with different levels of opacity provides privacy for residents of this housing development in Los Angeles by local office Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects (LOHA) (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A painted-timber skin that skirts around the top storey reveals the heights of staggered floors inside this Hamburg house. Designed by Kraus Schoenberg, it's the W in our A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about Haus W » View the full article

French designer Philippe Starck has created smart radiator valves that allow homeowners to remotely control the temperature of each room using their voice (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

The successor of furniture brand Orior, which was established in Northern Ireland in the 1970s, has opened a showroom in New York City to display furniture with "spunk and flavour". Read more

Our latest captioned video shows drone racing footage of an abandoned coal factory in southwest France, which was captured by Benoit Finck. Read more

Beijing studio MAD has revealed plans for a Parisian housing block surrounded by undulating balconies, which is set to become the firm's first residential project in Europe (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Stone walls and contemporary wooden roof trusses frame this pool house that architecture studio Re-Format has added to a house in Surrey, England (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architecture studio Sevil Peach has overhauled a house once owned by Victorian painter and illustrator Frederick Barnard to create an artist's residence boasting period features and a patio-side bathtub. (more…) View the full article

British firm John McAslan + Partners has converted a stone barn into a library and added a contrasting stained timber extension, as part of its redevelopment of a university campus in Cumbria, England (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: waterfalls, rainbow-coloured latticework and bright red cycle lanes feature among proposals for a new bridge across London's River Thames to rival Thomas Heatherwick's Garden Bridge (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A dilapidated car showroom in north-west London has been transformed into this flexible workspace by Hackney designers the Decorators and community initiative Meanwhile Space (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Arched openings, plants and lightwells are used to create a soothing atmosphere inside this New York shop for CBD-based products, designed by local studio SR Projects. Read more

Snøhetta has renovated a Brooklyn warehouse to create a studio for Cuban-American artist José Parlá, whose murals adorn the lobbies of One World Trade Center and the Barclays Center (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a retail designer/architect for the perfume branch of fashion house Dior, whose glass fragrance tester is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a Part III qualified architect at Duggan Morris Architects in London. The firm was nominated for the RIBA Manser Medal last year for its Old Bearhurst renovation and extension to a farm building (pictured above). Visit the ad for full details or browse many other architecture and design job opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

A decommissioned black cab and curb-side art gallery are among the mini parks designed by the London-based architects and designers as part of this year's London Festival of Architecture. Read more

The mountain landscape of coastal Mexico provides an idyllic setting for this red concrete house by Mexican architect David Pedroza Castañeda (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Swedish studio Form Us With Love has designed an all-white interior for a Stockholm boutique dedicated to coloured pens. (more…) View the full article

News: NASA is developing robots made from a tensile system of interlocking rods and cables that can transform from flat components into a ball shape then tense and flex to roll around the surface of planets. (more...) View the full article

Snarkitecture co-founder Daniel Arsham has opened a solo show at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Museum of Art in Georgia, which features eroded, rippled and cloth-like wall installations. (more…) View the full article