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Yancey Strickler, founder of Metalabel and Kickstarter, wrote an interesting piece titled What’s the difference between an artist and a creator? An artist is a self-directed artistic expressor. They work for themselves and express what they want. There’s no one beyond their anxiety looking over their shoulder telling them what to do. A creator is …

“The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” – Vincent van Gogh

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” – Viktor Frankl

A fifty-metre-long skylight cuts through the centre of Kitaoka Group Head Office Building, renovated by Tokyo studio Wataru Architects in Mima City, Japan. Read more

Architecture studio BIG has unveiled designs for a waterfront home for Hamburg State Opera, which will be enclosed by a series of interconnected terraces. Read more

Members of Norwegian design collective Fold Oslo have unveiled an assortment of lamps made from found objects and waste materials. Read more

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing the Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art in China, designed by BIG. Read more

The renovated Union Terrace Gardens in Aberdeen by architecture studios Stallan-Brand and LDA Design, which are shortlisted for the RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award, feature in this video by Jim Stephenson. Read more

Italian architecture firm Novembre Studio has completed a polycarbonate padel centre at Milan‘s CityLife development, which was designed in response to the adjacent CityWave office by BIG. Read more

Dezeen takes a look inside the late critic Charles Jencks‘s architectural masterpiece in this video produced by Dezeen for The Cosmic House. Read more