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1 day ago | dezeen.com | Jon Astbury

Australian practice Equity Office has completed the Wangun Amphitheatre in southeastern Victoria, a performance space for the First Nation community that is sheltered by steel-framed fabric canopies. Developed both with and for the Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation (GLaWAC) on a bushland site in Kalimna West, the 100-seat amphitheatre was created to showcase and celebrate the culture of the Gunaikurnai people.

1 day ago | dezeen.com | Jane Englefield

Italian architect Giuseppe Porcelli sought to bend gender norms when transforming this Milanese apartment into an "intimate homoerotic" backdrop for his inaugural furniture collection. Porcelli's interior scheme was influenced by the history of garçonnières or bachelor pads – traditionally masculine apartments inhabited by single heterosexual men.

2 days ago | dezeen.com | Jon Astbury

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2 days ago | dezeen.com | Jon Astbury

London practice Studio Hagen Hall has completed the refurbishment of Pine Heath, a 1960s townhouse in Hampstead, restoring and complementing its mid-century design with a rich palette of cherry wood and stainless steel. Originally designed in the late 1960s by South African architect Ted Levy, Benjamin & Partners, the five-storey home is part of a row of five townhouses that were informed by Cape Town's coastal developments.

2 days ago | dezeen.com | Rupert Bickersteth

The proliferation of touchscreens in cars is "dangerous" and designers will shift back to analogue switches, British architect Norman Foster tells Dezeen in this interview. The Foster + Partners founder was speaking at the launch of a shimmering transportation hub at the Venice Architecture Biennale. "The touchscreen – literally, ergonomically – has become almost a reflex," he said.