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A patchwork of wood shingles and stone form this Toronto home that local practice Batay-Csorba Architects has extended and renovated. Read more View the full article

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

SANAA has built a small passenger terminal shaped like a cloud for a port on the Japanese island of Naoshima, which is famed for its contemporary art scene. Read more View the full article

Rama Estudio has fronted this apartment block in Ambato, Ecuador with wooden louvres to encourage interactions between residents and passersby. Read more

Competition: we’ve teamed up with Figtree Factory Studios to give readers a chance to win one of five pairs of their 01M OneMoment 100% biodegradable shoes. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the opening of our Christmas pop-up store The Temporium on Thursday 1 December coincides with the Seven Dials shopping event and you can receive a 20% discount on all Dezeen Watch Store products as well as at other nearby stores on the evening by registering on the Seven Dials website. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In the first of three posts about the Digital Crystal exhibition at London’s Design Museum, we look at a mechanical projector built by London design studio Troika which uses Swarovski crystal lenses and LEDs to create portraits on the gallery wall (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

For her collaboration with VDF, singer-songwriter Beatie Wolfe has written an essay about the power of music to transform lives, particularly during difficult times. Read more View the full article

News: visitors to the National Building Museum in Washington DC can now get lost inside a concave wooden maze installed by Danish architecture firm BIG (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Winning an award for best architecture, interiors or design studio at Dezeen Awards can have a huge impact, according to last year's winners – and there are less than 20 days to enter and save 50 per cent. Read more View the full article

US designers Yitan Sun and Jianshi Wu have proposed transforming Manhattan's Central Park into a sunken landscape encircled by a below-grade megastructure with office, housing, retail and cultural space. (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Studio Egret West and HawkinsBrown, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with architects MAD, fashion brand JOY and more… (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this interview filmed at Dezeen Space, London designer Dominic Wilcox talks about his Moments in Time series of one-off, customised time pieces commissioned by Dezeen. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Fashion designer Ying Gao has fabricated a pair of dresses that writhe around and light up when someone stares at them (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Czech studio Kibardindesign have created a 3D version of a digital clock face. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: in a review for The Guardian, architecture critic Jonathan Glancey says that the new Maggie’s centre in Nottingham is like something out of a fairytale and “is clearly designed to make visitors smile” – The Guardian Glancey claims that architect Piers Gough of CZWG and fashion designer Paul Smith, who was responsible for the interior, have triumphed in their attempt at creating a homely environment for those affected by cancer, adding: “From a purely architectural and design point of view, few hospital buildings – this side of the other eight Maggie’s Centres built in Britain since the 1990s – are as welcoming.” See our original story on Maggie’s Nottingh…

Visitors can save 40 per cent on display furniture on the final day of IKEA Festival in Milan, which also features the return of yoga and a painting robot. Read more View the full article

A bevelled cantilever contains the living room of this house in Nagoya, Japan, by architects Studio SKLIM. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Sports brand Nike has created the Air Max 2090 to demonstrate what it sees as being the future of trainer design. Read more View the full article

Photographer Edmund Sumner has sent us these images of a shimmering steel visitors centre at a Mumbai museum. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: supporters of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei have been posting photos of themselves naked on a website as a protest against the Beijing police’s decision to question his assistant, who had taken nude pictures of the artist and four women – The Telegraph Ai was detained for 81 days earlier this year by the Chinese government on charges of tax evasion, during which time he was also asked about the photographs that he says have no deeper political meaning. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architectural photographer Fernando Guerra has sent us his images of a nursing home in Alcácer do Sal, Portugal, by Portuguese studio Aires Mateus Arquitectos. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish studio Arquitectura-G have renovated this apartment in the El Born area of Barcelona by adding wooden storage and mezzanines. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve just sent the latest issue of Dezeenmail – take a look at it here. Dezeenmail contains a selection of Dezeen’s best stories and comments, along with all our latest competitions and jobs. You can subscribe here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An exhibition of Norwegian design will return to the London Design Festival in September, with a new focus on the country's manufacturing industry (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article