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Masahiro Kinoshita of KINO architects has completed a house in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, designed to afford views towards the nearby castle from the third floor living room. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Verdant greenery contrasts with the concrete benches and grey metal walls of a hotel in Medellín, Colombia, designed by Plan:b Arquitectos. Read more View the full article

Here’s a selection of projects by Japanese architects SANAA, who have been named 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureates (see our earlier story). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Systematic racism is prevalent in architecture, says Sylvia Aehle, a Part 2 architectural assistant in London, who describes her experience as a black female in the profession. Read more View the full article

Shanghai Expo 2010: photographer Montse Zamorano has sent us some photographs of the completed French Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010, designed by Jacques Ferrier Architectures. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the Shenzhen Stock Exchange building by OMA topped out today – see press release below. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Emmanuelle Moureaux of Tokyo has created an installation from interlocking coloured sticks at three Issey Miyake fashion stores in Tokyo. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Nelson Garrido has sent us his photographs of a visitors’ centre by Paulo Gomes that’s nestled into the rock face at an archaeological site in Murça, Portugal. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swedish designer Pål Rodenius sells sheets of plywood printed with the outlines of furniture components. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: artists Studio Job will present this cabinet with an enormous bronze key in Milan next week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed by Robert Andriessen of Designguide.tv, designer Dirk Vander Kooij explains his robot that prints chairs made of recycled refrigerators. The project was one of three winners at this year’s DMY Awards, announced at a ceremony in Berlin last night. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London studio VW+BS have designed an office building for Singapore that resembles a giant periscope. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Nobody likes hospital waiting rooms. Barcelona design agency Fuelfor have designed a series of conceptual improvements to make them a little more bearable. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Space: up next at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space is University of Sheffield graduate Thomas Hudson, with his fictional model of a home for early twentieth-century intellectual Walter Benjamin. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2011: best known for his grown-up furniture that would be quite at home in a fairy tale, Amsterdam designer Bo Reudler presents a collection of children’s furniture in Eindhoven as part of Dutch Design Week this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A team of illustrators and graphic artists camped out for a week in this Rococo-style dome hidden under a carpark in Soho, London, covering every surface and arch with a sinister, sprawling illustration for new restaurant and bar Meat Liquor. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Hong Kong firm O Studio Architects have completed a stark concrete church on the side of a sacred mountain in China. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: this movie by Jonathan Gales of architectural animation studio Factory Fifteen imagines the whole of London as a construction site, caught in a state of change that could mean dramatic decay or intensive development. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan studio AtelierFORTE have built a sauna in the northern Italian countryside that has wings like a bird. (more…) View the full article

Designed in Hackney: illustration collective Le Gun have collaborated with footwear designer Tracey Neuls to create a range of shoes inspired by items discovered inside a suitcase in a Hackney basement. (more…) View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Po-Chih Lai has designed a skateboard that can go down stairs (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

The staircase in this west London house by Tigg Coll Architects has a glass balustrade and open treads to allow light to flood through from above (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The Normal Vivid watch designed by Tokyo designer Ross McBride is now only £100.00 (UK and EU) or £83.33 (rest of the world) in the Dezeen Watch Store end of summer sale. Buy now » (more…) View the full article

London firm Zaha Hadid Architects has completed a 330,000-square-metre retail, office and entertainment complex in Beijing (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Californian firm amphibianArc was inspired by images of spacecrafts to come up with two different skyscraper proposals for the headquarters of a Chinese machinery company in Changsha (+ slideshow + movies). (more…) View the full article