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New York studio Ray Kingston Inc. has developed a wireless speaker that you wear over your sneakers. (more…) View the full article

Israeli studio Paritzki & Liani Architects has squeezed a house with an exposed brickwork interior into the space between two existing properties in Tel Aviv (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This spiralling stone house in Vietnam by architect Vo Trong Nghia has grass on its roof and an oval courtyard at its centre (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London print designers Eley Kishimoto teamed up with Icelandic design collective Vík Prjónsdóttir for DesignMarch in Reykjavík last week, where they presented a seal-shaped blanket inspired by an Icelandic folk tale. (more...) View the full article

Revellers at this year's Coachella festival in California can visit a silent disco inside a dome of colour-changing balls by Spanish designer Héctor Serrano (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: the new president of Milan's Salone Internazionale del Mobile has revealed plans to rebrand the fair, replace its "terrible" website and tackle hotel overpricing and transport chaos that are damaging its image (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Danish architects 3XN have completed a star-shaped regional headquarters for the United Nations in Copenhagen - complete with a spectacular staircase rising through the centre of the atrium (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Amsterdam designer Maurizio Montalti explains how biological organisms such as fungi could be harnessed to create new sustainable materials in this movie filmed in Eindhoven. (more…) View the full article

Interview: following the popularity of the hyper-realistic computer renderings of Staithe End house that we published earlier in the month, Henry Goss, the architect and visualiser who produced the renders, talks to Dezeen about how 3D visualisations are becoming indistinguishable from real photographs. (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2013: Dutch design brand Moooi has installed its Unexpected Welcome collection in its London showroom, alongside giant photographs by Dutch artist Levi van Veluw. (more...) View the full article

Portuguese studio DNSJ.arq has completed a cluster of three white houses on the outskirts of a small town in southern Portugal (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: a survey of UK design and digital agencies has revealed annual increases in salaries and bonuses that indicate a recovery from the financial crisis affecting the design industry, though unpaid internships and free pitches are still on the rise. (more...) View the full article

Huge round cushions in shades of mustard yellow and cornflower blue add colour to the pale concrete and timber interior of this kindergarten in western Austria by local studio Bernardo Bader Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This pendant lamp based on a flower by Russian designer Constantin Bolimond would open and illuminate when it senses low light. (more...) View the full article

This wooden extension to a school library near Melbourne, by local firm Branch Studio Architects, creates a reading lounge and balcony nestled among the branches of surrounding trees (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen exclusive: Zaha Hadid Architects has released a movie documenting the spaces of the firm's recently completed Jockey Club Innovation Tower (JCIT) in Hong Kong, as well as new shots by photographer Iwan Baan. (more...) View the full article

Opinion: by excluding architects and focusing on research for this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, Rem Koolhaas has given the world an insight into what he thinks about architecture. The result is less than encouraging, says Kieran Long. (more...) View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Offer Canfi has envisioned a future for cycling in which inductive bicycle lanes could be used to wirelessly charge electric bikes and other devices on the go. (more...) View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an architect at Hopkins Architects, who designed the Velodrome for the London 2012 Olympic Games (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

News: residents of one of the tallest residential skyscrapers in the world have been gradually returning to their homes after a fire that caused more than a thousand people to be evacuated. (more…) View the full article

Opinion: the refurbishment of London's Imperial War Museum by Norman Foster is a "botched" job, but it's hardly surprising given the UK's strange attitude to its own history, says Owen Hatherley. (more...) View the full article

Guide: As Design Miami – the final major design event of 2014 – prepares to open tomorrow, we're launching a new, easy-to-use version of our international architecture and design event listings for 2015. Go to Dezeen Guide 2015 » View the full article

Design Miami/Basel 2015: a blackened-wood structure by Seattle studio Olson Kundig Architects houses the VIP lounge at this year's Design Miami/Basel fair (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Pomo summer: Memphis Group founding member Michele De Lucchi has designed a ribbed aluminium coffee moka for Alessi, which will launch during London Design Festival 2015. (more…) View the full article

Emerging French designer Rémi Bouhaniche has unveiled a chair that he created by folding "a trapezoidal shape of foam and fabric like origami" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article