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Sports brand Puma has unveiled its Puma Fi trainers, which have laces that can be tightened at the swipe of a finger. Read more

Sliding polycarbonate screens are set in front of the windows covering the stepped facade of this house in Barcelona by Spanish studio H Arquitectes. Read more View the full article

One year ago Dezeen readers looked ahead to the apocalypse, when an armoured cabin might come in handy, while Frank Gehry unveiled controversial designs for a business school with a crumpled-up facade. We featured a chair made from squashed-up fibre cement and a pair of 3D-printed shoes that one reader called “blister-tastic”. Meanwhile, a youth hostel filled with fabric bedroom pods opened in a former factory in Italy and a futuristic, cave-like bar made a few readers feel nauseous. We revealed the news that industrial designer James Dyson was succeeding Terence Conran as Provost of London’s Royal College of Art and our most popular stories of the week were a pair …

The covers of subway ventilation ducts have been used as walls, railings and storage closets in this renovated Montreal apartment designed by Canadian architect Jean-Maxime Labrecque. Read more View the full article

Slovenian graphic designer Jure Tovrljan has redrawn the logos of brand including the Olympics, Starbucks and Nike to show how the coronavirus has impacted our everyday lives. Read more View the full article

Eindhoven designer Jalila Essaïdi has turned manure into haute couture, creating a poo-based fabric that has been used to make clothes (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for an architectural designer at DUS Architects in Amsterdam, which recently built a 3D-printed micro home (pictured) and is also working on a 3D-printed canal house. More › View the full article

Dezeen Screen: here’s a live stream of a debate with all seven partners of architects OMA, taking place at the Barbican Art Gallery in London tonight. Watch the live stream on Dezeen Screen » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Beijing's Forbidden City is the backdrop for this tea house created by Chinese studio Cutscape Architecture in place of two dilapidated warehouses (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: London trade show designjunction is set to collaborate with British design brands Anglepoise and ercol to curate an exhibition and charity auction, during next week's London Design Festival. (more...) View the full article

Bureau Rhizome's interior for this contemporary Russian restaurant is influenced by a neighbouring Danish design school. Read more View the full article

San Francisco designer Yves Behar has designed the inaugural product from new Danish mobile phone brand Æsir. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A colourful cashmere sofa, bronze chandeliers and stained-glass sculptures are among the mix of plush and sculptural objects American designer Misha Kahn is displaying at New York gallery Friedman Benda. Read more View the full article

US firm Aamodt Plumb Architects has created a spacious, oceanfront home in the Hamptons with a sturdy exterior shell that protects the dwelling from coastal storms. Read more View the full article

Architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro and landscape designers James Corner Field Operations have completed Section 2 of the High Line, a 1.5 mile-long elevated park on an abandoned railway in New York. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Kazunori Fujimoto Architects & Associates used corner windows for a concrete house with views of the sea and Itsukushima Shrine in Japan's Hiroshima prefecture. Read more View the full article

Dezeenwire: Alice Rawsthorn takes a look at the colour trends companies have forecast for this year and why they’re likely to be a self-fulfilling prophecy - New York Times </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

News: crafts will no longer be considered part of the creative industries under proposals published by the UK government this week. (more...) View the full article

Two monolithic concrete walls by designer Luca Fortin are arranged "like an opened book" to form a passageway inside a Quebec City park. Read more View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2013: after day two at the World Architecture Festival, the final category winners for the awards programme have been revealed. (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2011: here are some photos of an installation by Japanese designers Nendo at the headquarters of design brand Established & Sons during the London Design Festival this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the Design and Technology Association is urging people to complete an online petition to retain design and technology as a compulsory part of the UK’s National Curriculum. Design and technology is one of the subjects that could become optional in schools following the government’s announcement in January that it intends to slim down the curriculum. The petition is supported by key members of the creative and manufacturing industries, who believe the subject to be vital to the UK’s economic development. Anyone wishing to support the campaign should visit the the Design and Technology Campaign website to sign the online petition or contact their local MP. …

British architects Liddicoat & Goldhill constructed their own north London home using black engineering bricks and slabs of white marble. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Underwhelmed by BIG and Heatherwick's latest plans for Google's new California headquarters, readers are describing the design as "dystopian" and "oppressive" in this week's comments update. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the world’s longest sea bridge has opened in eastern China, spanning 22.6 miles across Qingdao Jiaozhou Bay - Xinhua Net </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article