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This week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen we reported on Steven Holl's long-delayed Queens library, Jean Nouvel's first skyscraper in New York and a family home built into a granite rock face in Stockholm (pictured). Click through for a roundup of architecture and design news from the past seven days, plus our regular featured music track.
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![You Make It Mobile](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2015/05/Make_Lindsey-Adelman-lighting_dezeen_468_11.jpg)
We reported on New York's burgeoning lighting scene and interviewed Lindsey Adelman about how she became a pioneer of the city's brightest new trend.
![UC Innovation Center by Elemental](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2015/05/UC-Innovation-Center-by-Elemental-DOTY_dezeen_sq.jpg)
Google's self-driving car, a proposal for clearing plastic waste from the world's oceans and a concrete university building were announced as category winners for this year's Designs of the Year awards. See the full list of category winners »
![Brutalist playground installation at the RIBA by Assemble](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2015/05/RIBA_Brutalist-playground-by-Assemble-and-Simon-Terrill_dezeen_sq.jpg)
Turner-nominated architecture studio Assemble revealed plans for a Brutalist-inspired playground and we paid tribute to the late industrial designer Jacob Jensen, who developed the flat silver and black aesthetic that became synonymous with audio products company Bang & Olufsen.
![Kolkajen Ropsten by Adept](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2015/05/Kolkajen-Ropsten-by-Adept_dezeen_sq01.jpg)
Adept and Mandaworks were chosen to transform three sites within one of northern Europe's largest urban development areas and the winners of a competition to design a new cultural quarter at the London 2012 Olympic Park were announced.
![A-House-for-Essex_FAT_Grayson-Perry_Jack-Hobhouse_dezeen_784_1](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2015/05/A-House-for-Essex_FAT_Grayson-Perry_Jack-Hobhouse_dezeen_784_15.jpg)
A fairytale-inspired house designed by FAT and Grayson Perry was completed and MAD showcased designs for its first project in Japan.
![Bordeaux Stadium by Herzog & de Meuron](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2015/05/Bordeaux-Stadium_Herzog-de-Meuron_dezeen_sq.jpg)
Herzog & de Meuron completed a new stadium in Bordeaux supported by 900 slim white columns and actor George Clooney described Santiago Calatrava's cultural complex in Valencia as "insane".
![217 West 57th Street South_New York_Steven Holl_Opinion_dezeen_sq](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2015/05/217-West-57th-Street-South_New-York_Steven-Holl_Opinion_dezeen_sq.jpg)
In other architecture news, leading US architect Steven Holl attacked New York's new obsession with skinny skyscrapers.
![Seashore-Library-by-Vector-Architects_dezeen_784_16](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2015/05/Seashore-Library-by-Vector-Architects_dezeen_784_161.jpg)
Popular projects this week on Dezeen included a Chinese library situated on a beach, whimsical installations designed for Brooklyn Bridge Park and Zaha Hadid's recently completed pebble-shaped towers in Beijing.
![Photograph by Cristiano Bianchi](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2015/05/Wangjing-Soho-by-Zaha-Hadid-photo-Cristiano-Bianchi_dezeen_SQ01.jpg)
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