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Toronto design studio Castor has launched a set of accessories for marijuana users that resembles a vintage candy dish, ahead of Canada's expected legalisation of the drug later this year. Read more View the full article

Toronto-based industrial design studio Castor has managed to induce an electric current through a 2,500-pound marble slab, causing a glow from a fluorescent tube simply laying on its top. Read more View the full article

Feline furniture brand Meyou has launched its first collection with three designer cat beds (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2014: holes and tunnels in the top of this wooden desk by Hong Kong-based designer Hao Ruan of LYCS Architecture have been designed to provide a playground for cats (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The window frame of this Beijing boutique by Japanese studio Nendo is repeated into the depths of the store. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design student Jiyoung Seo has created a little shelf with a flap of silicon to keep books in place. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This movie by Protein features supermodel Erin O’Connor wearing a dress that incorporates a catalytic converter. This is the first part of a collaboration between designer Helen Storey and chemist Tony Ryan to create clothes that filter pollution from the air. Music is by Radiohead. Watch the movie » Above image is by Adam Mufti </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2013: Spanish designer Jaime Hayón has created a chair with armrests that stretch outwards like limbs for Danish brand &tradition. (more...) View the full article

British product designer Hans Ramzan has created a pocket-sized device that enables people to test themselves for HIV from the comfort of their own home. Read more View the full article

Japanese studio Torafu Architects have designed a lidded bowl that can be split into two parts and mounted on the wall as shelves. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Music: the face of Australian actor Cate Blanchett decays to a mummy-like state in the music video for Massive Attack's The Spoils track (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Chilean studio Great Things to People (gt2P) has built a machine to generate pottery objects using an analog version of parametric design. (more...) View the full article

Rammed earth and glass form the walls of this house by US studio Feldman Architecture, which was designed for a hilly property in an eco-friendly residential development near the ocean. Read more View the full article

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has paid homage to the northern lights by constructing a titanium-clad cathedral that spirals up towards the sky (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The Roman Catholic Church has said it is in a "catch-22 situation" over the A-listed St Peter's Seminary in Scotland, as it can't sell, demolish or give away the Brutalist ruin designed by Gillespie, Kidd and Coia. Read more

Morfoza is an ethereal lighting collection that Catrinel S.tudio is launching during the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

Studio Ryte's Catssup collection can be attached to shelves or furniture to provide a world for cats to explore without compromising the human living space. Read more View the full article

Models at a Norwegian fashion event walked along this looping wooden catwalk designed by Oslo studio Gartnerfuglen Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The legs of this stool covered in a skin-tight coating of black rubber were formed using silicone moulds cast from raw cauliflowers (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: visitors to the Milan showroom of Italian tile company Ceramiche Refin can play a board game developed using ceramic tiles next week. (more...) View the full article

Cavaa Arquitectes has stripped back the interior of an apartment in Barcelona's Poblenou neighbourhood, creating an open-plan living space featuring traditional vaulted ceilings. (more…) View the full article

News: construction has started on a hotel resort that will nestle into the 100 metre-high rockface of an abandoned water-filled quarry outside Shanghai. (more...) View the full article

Koichi Takada Architects has unveiled the first interiors it has built within Jean Nouvel's National Museum of Qatar in Doha, Qatar, featuring undulating wooden surfaces. Read more

Criss-crossing concrete beams brace the excavated walls of two new stations that have been added to the metro network in Budapest by local studio Spora Architects. (more…) View the full article

California firm CAW Architects used prefabricated elements and economical materials to create a series of light-filled buildings on an agricultural campus operated by Stanford University. Read more