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Dezeen School Shows: a proposal for micro housing which promotes sustainability is included in this latest school show by students at the University of Waterloo. Read more

California studio LOHA has completed a residential and retail building called Bellevue53, which features a rooftop swimming pool and stepped elevations clad in white metal. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: onion bulbs and conchigliette pasta are among the organic shapes that informed this collection of ceramic pandant light clusters by Indian manufacturer Naaya Studio. Read more

Promotion: Estonian timber supplier Thermory has announced the winners of its annual wooden architecture design awards, including a swooping addition to Lisbon’s Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian by Kengo Kuma. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: two L-shaped aluminium sheets create « the illusion of a single rectangular base » in this characterfully geometric coffee table by New York furniture designer Orlando Pippig. Read more

Textured tiles and exposed surfaces feature in the rehabilitation of this historic home in Valencia completed by local interior design studio Paloma Bau. Read more

German studio Ingenhoven Associates has redesigned Calwer Passage, a former shopping centre and office block in Stuttgart, adding a « natural curtain » of trailing plants to its facade. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: designer Jaime Hayon worked with Spanish furniture brand Viccarbe to extend the Aleta seating family with the launch of an executive chair. Read more

Design studio Policronica has transformed the interior of Hotel Elysée Montmartre in Paris, relying almost exclusively on a single species of wood. Read more

A whole chess set was translated into wearable accessories in this prototype by French designer Louis Le Joly Senoville, a fan of the game who wanted to make it possible to play anywhere at any time. Read more