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This renovated apartment in Berlin features raw concrete ceilings and floors that combine oak parquet with decorative tiles (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: a range of products inspired by a young designer's dyslexia has won the New Designer of the Year Award (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Australian architect Louise Nettleton has shoehorned a coffee shop for comic-book lovers into a narrow gully formerly used as a driveway, near Sydney's Central Station (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Portuguese architect João Branco has revamped a cluster of farm buildings and animal pens to create a weekend retreat for a family in Portugal's Sierra de Janeanes district (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Opinion: in his first Opinion column for Dezeen, Dan Hill reflects on the recent sale of Finland's two most iconic design brands - Artek and Nokia - and suggests what the country's design industry should do next. (more...) View the full article

Diagonally laid timber planks create zig-zagging patterns across the exterior of this church in Cologne by German architects Sauerbruch Hutton (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our next movie from Miami, show director Marianne Goebl discusses the trends that emerged from Design Miami 2013, including a renewed focus on female designers such as Charlotte Perriand and Maria Pergay. (more...) View the full article

This radical redesign of a door by Austrian artist Klemens Torggler uses a folding and pivoting system to collapse and roll to one side. (more...) View the full article

British architect Richard Overs has converted a deserted bakery in Cambridge, England, into a modern home for his family (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: design brand TOG launches in Milan this evening and will unveil a range that includes customisable outdoor furniture by British designer Sebastian Bergne. (more...) View the full article

A vibrant turquoise door marks the entrance to this small asphalt-clad house in the Chilean countryside by local studio Mas Fernandez Arquitectos (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New York designer Joe Doucet has launched a solid birch chair with a silicone tubular backrest that flexes to the shape of the sitter. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: a surfboard for the city, smart boxing gloves and "the world's first" open-source greenhouse are among the winners of the LaunchBox new product contest. (more...) View the full article

Music: tying in with our series on Brutalist architecture, this music video by director Callum Cooper follows British band Metronomy around London's Barbican Estate (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Interieur 2014: condensation droplets pattern the inside of the balloon-shaped shade of this lamp by French designer Arturo Erbsman, which has won an Interieur Award at the Belgian design event. (more...) View the full article

Number four in our festive A-Z of iconic chairs is the birch plywood Domus Chair by Finnish Modernist designer Ilmari Tapiovaara. (more…) View the full article

London firm Stanton Williams has completed a house in leafy north London with a timber and stone exterior, green sedum roofs and an entrance that brings residents over a bridge (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Italian designer Massimo Faion has created a set of bespoke falconry stands for a live performance at this year's Design Days Dubai fair. (more…) View the full article

Slender batons of untreated larch cover two extensions erected in the garden of this semi-detached home in London, as part of a refurbishment and remodelling by architecture studio Haptic (+ slideshow). (more…)

Furniture and surfaces at this restaurant in Bangkok's EmQuartier shopping precinct are almost exclusively ash, creating a monochrome interior that looks like it's made from balsa wood (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels claims his Copenhagen housing development has accomplished the social mission Brutalist architects Alison and Peter Smithson set out to achieve with their "streets in sky" concept in the 1960s and 1970s. (more…) View the full article

Following the bankruptcy and collapse of Architecture for Humanity in 2015, local chapters have banded together to create a new organisation called Open Architecture Collaborative (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Zaha Hadid 1950-2016: Pritzker Prize laureates paid tribute to Zaha Hadid at a private dinner before this year's Pritzker ceremony in honour of Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, which took place in New York on Monday. (more…) View the full article

Open Platform for Architecture is moving forward with plans to build a subterranean residence that will slice into a mountain near Beirut and feature a glass swimming pool for a roof (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The Jenga-like form of Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron's residential skyscraper in Tribeca, New York, has been captured by Instagram users ahead of its imminent completion. (more…) View the full article