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These handmade electrical plugs allow you to plug a second appliance into the back. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A fabric cloak stretched across the glass facade of this golf ball-shaped office and showroom shades it from direct sunlight. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s the full transcript from the first Peroni Collaborazioni Talk in which Italian designer Fabio Novembre talks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about his work, his influences, what it means to be Italian and how to lead by example. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This hilltop house by Japanese studio Tato Architects comprises a metal barn on top of a glass box (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Thomas Heatherwick’s design for the Olympic Cauldron stole the show at the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony on Friday night. Here’s a round-up of all our stories about Heatherwick; highlights include our video interviews with him about the cauldron, about his “hairy” UK pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010; and the new London double-decker bus. Click here to see all our stories about Thomas Heatherwick View the full article

Architect Norman Foster (above) has designed the entrance to the Corderie Arsenale exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale, where the names of generations of architects, critics, designers, landscape architects and planners are projected over the floor, columns and visitors. (more…) View the full article

A wave-like wooden ceiling undulates above the heads of students at this chapel by architects Gensler in the basement of a Los Angeles university. (more…) View the full article

Dutch Design Week: a Victorian scientist’s laboratory experiments inspired Dutch designer David Derksen to create these glass lamps and vases, which have double walls like a Thermos flask. (more…) View the full article

News: Aric Chen, curator of art and design for the new M+ museum for visual culture in Hong Kong, says the museum will take an unprecedented stance in “placing Asia at the centre” of design history, rather than on the periphery as western curators have done (+ audio + transcript). (more…) View the full article

This week the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas included a car that drives itself, a vibrating fork that warns dieters when it's time to stop eating (above) and the unveiling of the Pebble smartwatch. Scroll on for more highlights from Dezeen plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of Todd Saunders' new monograph of architecture, including artists' studio on remote islands and lookout points over Nordic fjords. (more...) View the full article

Stockholm design studio PJADAD used tiny cubes and chunks of food to create this miniature landscape as a visual identity for the Swedish Atelier Food project and restaurant. (more...) View the full article

The partners of new Vancouver studio Scott & Scott Architects created this remote snowboarding cabin for their own use at the northern end of Vancouver Island. (more...) View the full article

Spanish studio Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos has created an arts centre in Madrid by installing a demountable structure behind the concrete walls of an old industrial building (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Florida interiors studio Poggi Design has teamed up with design brand Luminaire to fit out a tropical estate on La Gorce Island in Miami Beach. (more…) View the full article

Blackened wood buildings teeter on the edge of a precipice at this housing development in Sweden by Scandinavian firm Arkitema Architects. (more...) View the full article

Designer Hella Jongerius and architect Rem Koolhaas have renovated the North Delegates' Lounge at the United Nations buildings in New York (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: Dutch designer Arian Brekveld based the design of this lounge chair on the shapes of seats in cars. (more...) View the full article

Eindhoven designer Erez Nevi Pana has developed a dough made from soil and fungus that can be baked in an oven to create stools and chairs strong enough to sit on. (more...) View the full article

News: a fighter jet incorporating 3D-printed parts has successfully completed a test flight, making it the first combat aircraft produced using additive manufacturing. (more...) View the full article

Small wooden houses contain play areas and swinging furniture at this Buenos Aires cafe for both adults and children by architect Íris Cantante (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A lone computer-generated figure marches forward whilst morphing through an array of architectural structures that include geodesic domes pixellated blocks and complex lattices, in this animation by multimedia studio Universal Everything (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

News: Dutch studio MVRDV has revealed its competition-winning design to create a bowl-shaped art depot for the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam with a mirrored exterior and a rooftop sculpture garden. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: Danish furniture brand Republic of Fritz Hansen will revive the 1958 Drop chair designed by Modernist architect Arne Jacobsen in Milan next week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese architect Tadao Ando has inserted a sweeping concrete wall into the new Milan store of fashion brand Duvetica. (more...) View the full article