An aluminium church in China features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features a church in Qingdao, China, designed by German-Chinese architecture practice Büro Ziyu Zhuang.

Büro Ziyu Zhuang has completed a church featuring walls and a tower made from dozens of spaced-out aluminium ribs.

The Chamber Church was designed as part of Chinese property developer Sunac's Aduo Town project in the Qingdao Zangma Mountain Tourism Resort.

Commenters are amazed. One said, "What an utterly beautiful structure".

Twelve Chinese architecture projects completing in the Year of the Tiger

Other stories in this week's newsletter include our roundup of 12 major Chinese architecture projects set to complete in the Year of the Tiger, a centuries-old canal house in Amsterdam that has been recently renovated, and the demolition of architect Marcel Breuer's Geller I house in Long Island.

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A snaking Shanghai bridge features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features a bridge that incorporates spaces for play, rest and planting.

Brearley Architects + Urbanists (BAU) created a bridge connecting two areas of wetland across Shanghai's Yuandang Lake.

The 586-metre-long bridge for cyclists and pedestrians is a "hybrid structure", blending architecture, infrastructure and landscape with the existing pathways and nature on the site.

Commenters are wowed. One said, "This is just gorgeous. I like everything about it."

Ten homes centred around bright interior courtyards

Other stories in this week's newsletter include our latest lookbook, featuring ten homes with beautiful courtyards at the heart of the interior, Adidas' floating recycled-plastic tennis court and news of a planning law in Brighton and Hove, England, that calls for new buildings to include special bricks for bees.

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The set from The Girl Before features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features the set of BBC television series The Girl Before, which was designed to feel both like a sanctuary and a prison.

Written by British author JP Delaney, The Girl Before is a psychological thriller novel set in a fictional one-bedroom house called One Folgate Street in Hampstead, London.

Production designer Jon Henson drew on minimalist Japanese architecture to create the house, which acts "like a fourth character" in the series.

One reader commented, "Minimalists would gladly live in this nightmare".

Pink concrete covers "fun house" on English coast by RX Architects

Other stories in this week's newsletter include a pink concrete holiday home in East Sussex, the Sou Fujimoto Architects-designed Hida Takayama University in Japan, and Rutgers professor Jason Barr's proposal to extend the tip of Manhattan Island to build more homes.

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Renovation of Oxford college features in today's Dezeen Weekly

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features the redevelopment of St Hilda's College at the University of Oxford.

London studio Gort Scott amazed readers with its revamp of the university campus, which saw two buildings added in a bid to reconnect the college with its riverfront setting.

The redevelopment provides new accommodation, teaching and event spaces for St Hilda's, while also attempting to unify the campus' string of existing buildings with the landscape.

One commenter called it a "worthy candidate for the Stirling Prize".

An open-plan farmhouse extension in Italy features in our round up of 10 homes where indoors meets the outdoors

Other stories in this week's newsletter include a round up of ten homes where verdant indoor trees create calming interiors, an exclusive interview with Nabr co-founder Bjarke Ingels, who explained how his housing startup intends to revolutionise the construction sector, and a wood-clad house in Minnesota that takes its cues from Japanese architecture.

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A pine-cone-informed apartment block features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features a mixed-use apartment block on Queensland's Gold Coast.

Australian firm Koichi Takada Architects has amazed readers with its design for an apartment block that features retractable slatted wooden screens and thin balconies that reference the form of a pine cone.

The heritage-listed Norfolk pine trees surrounding its site gave the project its name, Norfolk, and informed the design approach.

One commenter said, "This architect is a breath of fresh air".

PARA Project designs surreal pavilion floating on a Belgian canal

Other stories in this week's newsletter include a wooden pavilion on a canal in Bruges, Belgium, a Hampshire house that Ayre Chamberlain Gaunt has designed for a client who is a wheelchair user, and a laptop with modular components that can be repaired and replaced.

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Balenciaga's Berlin store features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features Balenciaga's first Berlin retail space, which pays tribute to the city's modernist architecture.

Continuing the brand's raw architecture aesthetic, the store's monolithic concrete interior contrasts with the grade II-listed neoclassical building in which it is housed. Commenters are divided over the design, with one likening it to a "large city's sewer system".

The newsletter also included the news that two of the UK's leading architects – high-tech architecture pioneer Richard Rogers and WilkinsonEyre co-founder Chris Wilkinson – passed away this week.

Other stories in this week's newsletter include a nature-filled Italian farmhouse by Carlo Ratti Associati and Italo Rota, a mixed-use high-rise in the Netherlands designed by MVRDV and our round up of the 10 most impressive British architecture projects featured on Dezeen this year.

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The world's second-tallest building features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features the Merdeka 118 skyscraper in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Australian studio Fender Katsalidis has designed what is now the world's second-tallest building, standing at 678.9-metres-tall.

Located in downtown Kuala Lumpur, the 118-storey megatall skyscraper reached its full height with the completion of its pointed spire.

One reader said, "It looks like a trophy for the world's tallest skyscraper".

Eight projects by young Chinese architects that "challenge Western understanding of sustainability"

Other stories in this week's newsletter include an exhibition highlighting a new generation of Chinese architects at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, 10 home interiors that celebrate the tactility of concrete blockwork, and Michelle Ogundehin's opinion piece on Pantone's choice for colour of the year.

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A house built on a tiny plot in Vietnam features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features ODDO Architects' design for a family home in Hanoi, Vietnam.

ODDO Architects has built a five-storey home on a small site in Hanoi. The plot is just four metres wide and six metres deep.

Readers are wowed. One said: "This is what architecture is all about".

Dezeen's top 10 home interiors of 2021

Other stories in this week's newsletter include a roundup of the top 10 home interiors featured on Dezeen this year, a collaboration between Mercedes-Benz and designer Virgil Abloh and controversial plans to restore Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris.

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An emergency cabin features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features an emergency cabin perched on the Dolomite Mountains in Italy.

Architecture practice Demogo has built a small cabin within the dramatic Marmarole mountain range in Northern Italy's Dolomites.

The structure has a full-height window that gives the impression of almost falling over the edge of a cliff.

Readers are wowed. One said: "This project is superb in all aspects".

Nate Dalesio clads his Upstate New York family house in corkboard panels

Other stories in this week's newsletter include a cork-covered home in Upstate New York, our round up of 10 high-profile building projects that were never actually built and Burberry's mirrored pop-up store on Jeju Island in South Korea.

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The architecture project of the year features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features Lina Ghotmeh's Stone Garden apartment block in Beirut, Lebanon, which was named architecture project of the year at Dezeen Awards 2021.

Stone Garden is Ghotmeh's first architecture project in her hometown of Beirut and was designed to symbolise the resilience and long history of the Lebanese capital.

"Stone Garden is full of wonder and poetry," said the Dezeen Awards judges.

Readers agreed. One said, "A worthy winner. It reads and reinterprets its complex cultural context to perfection."

The holiday home was built atop reused foundations

Other stories in this week's newsletter include a ski cabin in Chile designed by Iragüen Viñuela Arquitectos, a roundup of ten unusual fireplaces and Herzog & de Meuron's Tour Triangle skyscraper, which will be the largest skyscraper to appear on central Paris' skyline since 1973.

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