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New materials company Ananas Anam is using pineapple waste to create a new material that provides an animal-friendly alternative to leather. (more…) View the full article

Music: French director Benjamin Artola's hand-drawn music video for Grand Soleil's track Misfits transports a man out of a traffic jam onto a trippy journey through seas, deserts and space (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Dutch designer Teresa van Dongen has filled a glass tube with octopus bacteria to create a zero-electricity lamp that glows blue when disturbed (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Shimmering aluminium skin and a gaping mouth give this ice rink in Belgium by architects L'Escaut the look of a whale (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Dutch firm OMA has seen off competition from Danish studio BIG to land the high-profile commission to renovate Miami Beach Convention Center, home to the annual Art Basel/Miami and Design Miami trade fairs. (more...) View the full article

Munich architecture studio IFUB has overhauled a 1930s apartment in Vienna, uncovering original details like parquet flooring and adding contemporary lighting and black steel fittings (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Ancient building material cob has been brought up to contemporary standards by a team of British and French researchers, who see it as an environmentally friendly option for homes. Read more

The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, is reopening following an overhaul by Foster + Partners, featuring a roof that curves around an old tree and a botanical garden for sculptures. Read more

Japanese studio Geneto Architects has used a medley of mirrors, windows and framed prints to divide the spaces in this Tokyo office (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The Black House by German architect studio Buero Wagner is a stack of differently sized rooms clad in blackened wood extending a house close to Lake Ammersee in Munich. Read more

French architect Jacques Garcia's third project for the NoMad hotel chain, located in the newly opened Park MGM in Las Vegas, aims to transport the elegance of a European home to the flamboyant Strip. Read more

Dutch designer Jólan van der Wiel's latest experiments with magnets have resulted in fantastical architectural models made using metallic clay (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Dutch company Concr3de has proposed rebuilding parts of Notre-Dame Cathedral from the ashes of the fire using 3D printing, and has already printed a replacement gargoyle. Read more

Local architect Pedro Miguel Santos has completed a temple-inspired house in northern Portugal, featuring white brick walls and an exposed concrete frame. Read more

Product news: items in this furniture range by Paris-based designer Arik Levy have wooden bases inspired by traditional Japanese footwear. (more...) View the full article

Ukrainian designer Olga Akulova added glazed partitions, metal-topped counters and a wooden bath to this apartment on the 30th level of a condominium in Kiev. (more…) View the full article

The main character in High Rise, a new movie based on JG Ballard's dystopian novel, is a residential tower that "doesn't care about the people inside it" and is designed by an arrogant architect. Director Ben Wheatley spoke exclusively to Dezeen about the film and why it "isn't a takedown of the architects of the 50s and 60s" (+ interview). (more…) View the full article

Stockholm 2015: this chair by Swedish-French design duo Fredick Färg and Emma Marga Blanche features a metal frame that mimics the shape of trouser braces. (more…) View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a senior product designer with Faye Toogood, whose interactive installation for design brand Established & Sons is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

A pair of conference rooms are housed within a sculptural glass and plywood volume at the centre of this Los Angeles office, created by California studio Domaen in a converted warehouse (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

At 320-metres-high the Bestseller Tower, designed by Danish firm Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter for the small town of Brande in Denmark, will be the tallest in western Europe. Read more

Australian firm CM Studio has added a pair of white-painted extensions to an end-of-terrace house in Sydney dating back to the 1880s, and remodelled its interiors with grey marble and pale timber finishes (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for the Royal College of Art's head of architecture programme. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Sou Fujimoto Architects has stopped using interns in its Tokyo office, amid an ongoing row about unpaid internships in architecture studios. Read more

Construction has begun on Japan's tallest building, a 330-metre-tall skyscraper in Tokyo designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects. Read more