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Dezeen promotion: Japanese kimono dresses informed the design of this bed-like sofa by Spanish brand Sancal, which features quilted fabric covers ideal for afternoon napping. Read more View the full article

Arlo Hotels has renovated Miami Beach's historic Nautilus Hotel to maintain its mid-century aesthetic, and include a co-working space and a barber shop. Read more View the full article

This medical research centre in Lisbon by Indian architects Charles Correa Associates has a curved stone form with circular cut-aways. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with Australian company Makedo to give away ten sets of their reusable connector system for creatively recycling waste materials. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2014: a grid of thin wooden strips supports the surface of this table by German designer Ruben Beckers to make it extremely lightweight (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Spanish designers CuldeSac have designed this high-chair with removable legs and accessories so that it’s still useful when the child starts to grow. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Following the controversy surrounding the release of the official London 2012 posters last week, graphic designer Sarah Hyndman has come up with a set of alternatives. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the winners of the garden unique competition to design outdoor dining products will exhibit their work at spoga+gafa garden trade fair in Cologne from 2 to 4 September 2012 and Dezeen readers can apply for 100 free tickets to the event. (more…) View the full article

This Hong Kong boutique has an undulating ceiling of woven cables and a checkout inside the changing rooms. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architects atelierA5 have completed this four-storey house in Tokyo enclosed by a perforated metal screen. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture firm OMA has designed a temporary auditorium for the basement of London department store Selfridges (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: plans for branches of the Guggenheim, Louvre and other museums in Abu Dhabi by leading architects have been dealt a blow by delays to a key construction contract, according to a report in today’s Financial Times. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In this short interview we conducted as part of our Food and Design report for luxury kitchen appliances brand Scholtès, Dutch designer Marieke van der Bruggen explains Public Pie, an open-air kitchen where the food is cooked in front of you. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designer Lotte Douwes has created a charging solution for Danish brand Menu, which swaps discreet wall sockets for power stations that hang from the ceiling. Read more View the full article

A electronically controlled stone wall slides across the facade of this house in Warwickshire, England, to conceal a large window. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Czech architecture studio Formafatal has used blackened wood, perforated aluminium panels and a green roof to form this low-lying holiday home in Costa Rica. Read more View the full article

Architect Bruno Stevens has added a sunken slate-clad ceramics studio to a house on a sloping site in Belgium. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: in her latest article for The New York Times, design critic Alice Rawsthorn examines the symbols and slogans adopted by the Occupy protest movement in cities around the world. Rawsthorn explains that the name ‘Occupy’, which originated at the Occupy Wall Street protest against the banking and democratic system, “is a stellar example of both what is known in marketing as an umbrella brand name and what the anti-corporatists in the movement could call beating them at their own game.” She adds that the use of hashtags and slogans short enough to send on social networks such as Twitter have helped the movement spread globally and could represent a new protocol …

Unparelld'arquitectes has turned four buttresses supporting a party wall in the town of Olot, Spain, into an arched public shelter that aims to "catalyse activity" on the street. Read more View the full article

Japanese architects Ikeda Yukie have completed a house with rounded edges for an elderly couple. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Canadian camouflage company Hyperstealth Biotechnology has patented the technology behind a material that bends light to make people and objects near invisible to the naked eye. Read more View the full article

Get up to 40% off LunaTik watch kits, designed to convert your iPod Nano into a multi-touch timepiece, in the Dezeen Watch Store’s summer sale. This limited edition camouflage TakTik model is now only £54 (UK and EU) or £43.20 (rest of the world). Buy now » Don’t forget you can get 10% off any product at Dezeen Super Store at 38 Monmouth Street, London WC2 with this flyer. View the full article

To kick off today's VDF collaboration with Beatie Wolfe, we're exclusively streaming the online premiere of the singer-songwriter's documentary Orange Juice for the Ears: from Space Beams to Anti-Streams. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this interview filmed for our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform, Portuguese designer Manuel Netto presents his Dock Lamp that can only be turned on by moving the bulb. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Chairs that double up as ladders, clotheshorses, shelves or lamps are part of a collection of furniture by Korean designer Seung-Yong Song. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article