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Architecture Cotugno Thiry has transformed a 19th-century brewery building in Belgium into La Bouteillerie, a simple house with rugged brick walls. Read more

Dezeen promotion: Biennale Interieur returns to Kortrijk, Belgium, from 17 to 26 October 2014, with a special exhibition of new work by nine past winners of the event's Designer of the Year award. (more...) View the full article

Architecture studio GAFPA used low-cost materials to build this Japanese-inspired weekend retreat in northern Belgium, which features a slender spiral staircase (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2o14: the curators of the Belgian Pavilion visited 260 homes around the country, using their findings to produce a minimal recreation of common domestic architecture within their Venice biennale exhibition (+ slideshow + interview). (more...) View the full article

Belgium's Venice Biennale pavilion is being used as a forum for debate about the future of Europe, in a bid to prevent the continent becoming further divided. Read more View the full article

Engineering studio Close to Bone has announced plans to rebuild and enlarge the cantilevered viewing platform it built in Flanders, Belgium, which was severely damaged in an apparent explosion. Read more View the full article

Ammar Basheir and Flower Michelin Limited have designed a retail interior for a west London boutique where garments are displayed within a series of bespoke metal screens (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A sweeping, white-brick pavilion in Southwark Park in London by architecture studio Bell Phillips curves along the park's historic pathways. Read more View the full article

Hood-like roofs funnel natural light into these brick terraced houses in London by Bell Phillips Architects, which provide cost-effective homes for elderly and disabled residents (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Japanese designers Nendo have designed these three wooden bells containing mechanisms from children’s musical boxes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Central Saint Martins graduate Belle Smith combines discarded pistachio shells with precious metals to create her jewellery pieces. Read more View the full article

Designer Benjamin Hubert has created this laptop bag which expands to become an overnight bag, in collaboration with Nava. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architect Tomohiro Hata has completed a house in Kyoto, Japan, with a wooden core built through the centre. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Rooms are shared between two matching concrete blocks at this house in Israel by architects Shilo Benaroya. (more…) View the full article

New York-based designer Ben Denzer has attracted a fleet of followers on Instagram with his ice cream photography series, which see tasty frozen treats matched with aesthetically pleasing books. Read more View the full article

Surveillance culture and climate change are the focus of the campaign for band The 1975's latest release, which features augmented reality, neural networks and glitchy graphics. Read more

Cults, memes and incel culture informed The 1975's music video for their song The Birthday Party, which sees band members transformed into digital avatars. Read more View the full article

British designer Ben Thompson has combined the grandeur of a Georgian manor with the informality of a modern farmhouse for the interiors of a new hotel in Hampshire, England. Read more

Faced with a sharply sloping plot in Portland, Oregon, architect Ben Waechter chose to "build up rather than out" to create a cost-efficient house for a family (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Laser-cut leather, wetsuit material and antique metal all feature in designer Damien Fredriksen Ravn's Spring Summer 2013 collection inspired by armour. (more...) View the full article

A black steel-framed glass house by architecture studio Bence Mulcahy extends a 19th-century villa in Mount Stuart, Tasmania. Read more View the full article

Japanese firm Ryuji Nakamura Architects installed these vinyl hammocks in a department store in Tokyo. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This bench by London studio Raw Edges comprises three different benches that interlock to create a pattern of horizontal and vertical stripes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: this bench inspired by the way wood is stacked for drying is by London designer Richard Shed and is one of ten benches exhibited by The Lollipop Shoppe during the London Design Festival this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival: Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, Jasper Morrison and AL_A are among the designers who have created benches with British design brand Established & Sons for the central courtyard of the V&A museum (+slideshow). (more…) View the full article