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Behind our fifth advent calendar window is Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura, who was awarded the 2011 Pritzker Prize and designed the red concrete museum dedicated to artist Paula Rego (pictured) in his home country. See more architecture by Eduardo Souto de Moura » View the full article

News: online design retailer Fab has changed its strategy yet again, ending its relationship with external designers and brands across Europe and instead focusing on selling its own custom-designed furniture. (more...) View the full article

Swiss designer Fabienne Felder has worked with University of Cambridge scientists Paolo Bombelli and Ross Dennis to develop a way of using plants as "biological solar panels". (more...) View the full article

A triangular section of frame at the top of this mirror by German design duo Kaschkasch Cologne allows it to rest neatly in the corner of a room. (more...) View the full article

We're heading to Milan to report on the city's annual festival of design exhibitions, installations and parties next week. You can see all the products launched during the Milan 2014 furniture fair and satellite events on our new Pinterest board, which we'll be updating daily. See our new Pinterest board » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: Rem Koolhaas explains the concept behind his Monditalia exhibition, in which dancers and musicians perform amongst the architectural exhibits, in the second part of our video interview filmed in Venice. (more...) View the full article

A small town on the Danish island of Bornholm has become another destination for harbour swimming facilities, thanks to a series of new walkways and structures by Swedish firm White Arkitekter (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Stone tiles and horizontal cement boards were used to define the various volumes of this house in South Korea by architecture studio SPLK (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Interieur 2014: the winners of the spaces category at this year's Interieur Awards have built their concept bar proposals in the halls of Kortrijk Xpo for the biennial design event. (more...) View the full article

Design Miami 2014: a domed structure conceived by American Neo-Futuristic architect Buckminster Fuller as an "autonomous dwelling machine" has been installed in the Miami Design District. (more…) View the full article

Adjaye Associates has unveiled plans to transform a collection of post-war buildings opposite The Ritz hotel in central London into a hotel and apartment complex. (more…)

DepA has transformed an 18th-century palace in Pinhel, Portugal into a cultural centre and added a mirrored glass box in its central courtyard to house a ticket office (+ slideshow). (more…)

Dezeen promotion: Lee Broom and Eley Kishimoto are among 21 designers who have customised the toy Eames Elephant for the charity project at this week's designjunction exhibition in London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This "floating" art and literary museum by American studio OLI Architecture is housed in a grouping of textured concrete blocks, which are elevated over a lake in China's Zhejiang Province (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: British designer Jasper Morrison has created a collection of furniture for Danish brand Fredericia, which will launch during this year's Stockholm Furniture Fair (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London company Primo Toys has designed a "hands on" wooden play set that aims to teach three-year-old children the principles of coding without the use of screens (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2016: the latest designer rocking horse comes from Stockholm studio Front, which has based its minimal design for Gebrüder Thonet Vienna on an old bent-wood chair from the furniture brand's archive. (more…) View the full article

Marks Barfield Architects and Davis Brody Bond have teamed up to design an aerial "gondola" that would stretch over the city of Chicago and serve as a major tourist attraction. (more…) View the full article

Eindhoven studio Wenink Holtkamp Architecten has converted a former grain silo in the Dutch city of Deventer into a community food hall overlooking the harbour (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Thick, galvanised-steel frames highlight a selection of windows on the concrete facade of this apartment block in Tokyo designed by Japanese studios Sasaki Architecture and Atelier O (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Belgian designer Pierre-Emmanuel Vandeputte has created a portable desk divider that allows users to actively isolate themselves from the noise around them (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Soho House & Co's in-house design team and London architects Michaelis Boyd have overhauled a run-down farm in Oxfordshire to create Soho Farmhouse – a hotel that combines English countryside style with "upstate New York cabin culture" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Movie: Dezeen goes behind the scenes at the factory where the fibreglass blocks that comprise BIG's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion were made in this exclusive video produced for material manufacturer Fiberline. (more…) View the full article

Hump-like protrusions extend down from the brick ceiling of this restaurant in London's Marylebone by Andy Martin Architects, referencing the domed interior of pizza ovens. Read more View the full article

An Auckland wetlands reserve featuring "woven" timber structures has been named World Landscape of the Year 2016 at the World Architecture Festival. Read more View the full article