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Following our story earlier this week on Planning Korea’s bridge for Seoul incorporating a library and museum (read it here), we’ve gathered together a selection of stories from the Dezeen archives featuring brilliant bridges. See all the stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Sudraba Arhitektüra has reinforced the dilapidated shell of an abandoned 20th-century railway warehouse in Riga and turned it into a concert hall. Read more View the full article

Our latest Dezeen Watch Store pop-up opens next week at SuperDesign in London, where we’ll be showing the latest watches in our collection, including the Trapezoid series by Naoto Fukasawa for Issey Miyake (above). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group have won a competition to design multistorey, prefabricated wooden housing for Kouvola, Finland. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2011: French designer Eléonore Nalet presented this chair with long cushions woven through its metal frame at imm cologne in Germany last month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Chile-based designer Margarita Talep has created a sustainable, biodegradable alternative to single-use packaging, using raw material extracted from algae. Read more

Designer Yinka Ilori has used his signature colourful and graphic style to create the exhibition design for Get Up, Stand Up Now, a show celebrating half a century of black creativity in the UK. Read more

Dezeen Screen: in the second instalment of our video interview with Rem Koolhaas, the OMA co-founder discusses two of his current preoccupations: the countryside, which he is addressing for the first time; and generic architecture, which could result in neutral, copyright-free building forms. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American firm Choi + Shine Architects designed these conceptual electricity pylons shaped like human figures to march across the Icelandic landscape. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Italian-Singaporean studio Lanzavecchia + Wai created these paper lamps in collaboration with a Singaporean craftsman who makes masks for a traditional lion dance. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

For our review of 2019, Sebastian Jordahn selects the best videos produced by Dezeen Studio, including an interview with Norman Foster about high-tech architecture, our Glastonbury Festival design highlights and a profile of Frida Escobedo. Read more View the full article

These patterned false eyelashes made of paper by Paperself are the latest addition to the range of designer goods on sale at our pop-up The Temporium in London next month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Urko Sanchez Architects has designed a concrete compound in Djibouti for the charity SOS Children's Villages International as a home for vulnerable children. Read more

British lighting brand Astro has launched its three-piece Capsule Collection Volume 01, which includes a bathroom lamp with a grooming mirror attached called Orb, as part of the VDF products fair. Read more View the full article

In our latest competition, we're offering 10 readers the chance to receive a book of sketches and watercolours by Mikkel Frost, a founding partner of architecture studio CEBRA. Read more

So what sets one organization’s waiting room apart from another? I recently talked with designers who offered up these suggestions: 1. Better layouts: Offer a variety of settings for different social experiences, including niches for professionals looking to do some work on their laptops to kid-friendly nooks where parents and kids can pass the time without disturbing others. 2. Good lighting: Having a variety of lighting sources (including overhead, tabletop, and decorative) and bringing in natural light with views to the outdoors are sure ways to improve the overall feel of a space. 3. Hospitable furnishings: Efforts to provide a comfortable place to sit …

In this short interview we conducted as part of our Food and Design report for luxury kitchen appliances brand Scholtès, French designer Philippe Starck talks about the dining room’s evolution and its effect on relationships. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The New Amsterdam Pavilion by Dutch architects UNStudio has opened to the public in New York’s Battery Park. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve teamed up with new London brand 1ina100 to give readers the chance to win one of three T-shirts from their inaugural collection of limited-edition designs. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New York practice John Puttick Associates has won the competition to redevelop the Brutalist 1960s bus station in Preston, England, with a design that features a rooftop football pitch, a climbing wall and a skate park. (more…) View the full article

Vienna Design Week 2010: London designer Philippe Malouin made bowls from rolls of till paper at Vienna Design Week Laboratory. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: Dezeen and Austrian architect Hans Hollein have teamed up to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of his new monograph. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we have teamed up with Rafael Viñoly Architects to give away five copies of their new monograph, written by Rafael Viñoly and critic Philip Jodidio. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the latest RIBA Future Trends Survey suggests architects are becoming more optimistic. See press release below. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: this cardboard interior by London designers StudioXAG has giant hands suspended above it and houses products by University of Arts London graduates. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article