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VDF products fair: Australian bathroom accessories brand Phoenix has released its Axia collection of taps, which feature a minimalist design and thin cantilevered spouts. Read more View the full article

South Korean product designer Ramei Keum has designed a clothes rail where the ends of the frame are shaped like hangers. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2011: these lamps with a mechanism derived from marking tools were among a collection of furniture presented by German designer Bao-Nghi Droste at imm cologne. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here is a collection of projects by product design students from ECAL – Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne, based on the Axor Bouroullec bathroom collection by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec (see our earlier story). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec have designed a bathroom collection for German brand Axor. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A zigzagging structure of spruce beams supports the roof of a science laboratory at the Eleanor Palmer Primary School in Kentish Town, London, designed by AY Architects. Read more

The white and grey walls of this dental clinic in Iran are shaped and angled to maximise the amount of light allowed into the interior. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: contemporary architecture and design magazine Azure has revealed the five-strong international jury that will decide the winners of the 2015 AZ Awards, including designer Philippe Malouin. (more…) View the full article

Architecture studio Azab has added under-floor storage and bright yellow walls to make this formerly characterless attic apartment in Bilbao, Spain, suitable for a young family of four. Read more

A bubblegum-pink corridor and a forest green kitchen feature inside this Bilbao apartment, which architecture studio Azab has brightened up with bold hues. Read more View the full article

Floor-to-ceiling curtains carve up the interior of this open-plan apartment in Bilbao, Spain, which has been overhauled by architecture studio Azab. Read more View the full article

Spanish architect Julio Barreno has completed an extension to a school in Cádiz, Spain. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architects Geneto used screens decorated with grooves to divide this Tokyo apartment. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Music: tanks, helicopters and jets chase a group of people across a shifting landscape of colourful circles in this animated music video directed by London duo Bif for electronic artist Azel Phara (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

A translucent garden pavilion made from 3D-printed plastic blocks provides a lightweight counterpoint to a robust, stone-clad house by AZL Architects in the Chinese village of Shanyinwu. Read more View the full article

AZL Architects has completed Song House, a concrete five-bedroom house adapted to the needs of its elderly and infirm occupants in the rural village of Nansong, China. Read more

News: a trio of international architecture firms will redevelop and add new facilities to Montreal's natural science museum, housed in a vast glass velodrome within the grounds of the city's former Olympic park. (more...) View the full article

The most significant works of the late couturier Azzedine Alaïa are displayed against backdrops created by designers including the Bouroullec brothers and Marc Newson for an exhibition at London's Design Museum. Read more View the full article

Despite being surrounded by electricity pylons, this hillside cabin in Japan by San Francisco firm Anderson Anderson Architecture generates all its own energy and heating using photovoltaic panels and a ground-sourced heat pump (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Fashion designer Hussein Chalayan presents work including these moulds used to make his Inertia series of dresses (see our earlier story) at Spring Projects in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Heavy concrete walls anchor this family home in Queensland, Australia, to its beachside setting, while hiding it from a busy road nearby. Read more View the full article

The extension to this refurbished house in Australia includes a covered outdoor space built around the trunk of a large lemon-scented tree (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A mixture of transparent and translucent glazing creates varying levels of privacy inside this dimly lit office created for a mortgage broker in Melbourne (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: Piero Ambrogio Busnelli, founder of Italian furniture brand B&B Italia, has died aged 87. (more...) View the full article

Business news: luxury brand B&B Italia could be sold to a major American furniture group, Dezeen understands. (more…) View the full article