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Concrete block and fibre-cement boards were among the materials used by American firm In Situ Studio to create this hillside home for a retired couple living in North Carolina. Read more

Opinion: there's no excuse for excluding women from the design conversation in Milan, says Kieran Long who offers a ready-made Rolodex for a fairer male/female split. (more...) View the full article

American firm Ward + Blake Architects has completed a residence and guest house in western Wyoming, which features rustic materials and sweeping views of the surrounding mountains (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: sports brand Nike have created a range of running shoes with knitted uppers made in one piece. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture studio Offhand Practice created textured walls and faux skylights within this Shanghai design gallery to evoke the feeling of being inside a cave. Read more View the full article

Design studio Vidivixi has teamed its furniture collection with works by US artists and designers to create a series of moody sets in its Mexico City showroom. Read more View the full article

Architects and designers should look to the insect world to find solutions for the survival of our own species, says Japanese graphic designer Taku Satoh. Read more

Product news: Gothenburg studio Design Stories and recycling workshop Returhuset have created a range of drawstring lamps made of waste material from local factories. (more...) View the full article

Japanese architect Jo Nagasaka of Schemata Architecture Office has completed another Tokyo store for skincare brand Aesop, this time in an old shoe shop. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This Virtual Design Festival school show features work by industrial design students from the Zurich University of the Arts, including a deceptive VR experience and a handbook that addresses waste in design. Read more View the full article

Shane Davis has overhauled an industrial building in Brooklyn's Gowanus area into a spot that functions as a vegan cafe by day, and a bar and restaurant, complete with a nightclub, after dark. Read more

Australian studio Wolveridge Architects ran a brickwork pathway through the inside and outside of this timber-clad extension to a house in Melbourne, using old bricks found in the garden (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week, Dezeen reported from Sweden on the best installations, product launches and events at Stockholm Design Week 2020. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Music Project: a choir of outdated computer equipment and games consoles performs a rendition of Carol of the Bells in this music video by Glasgow filmmaker James Houston. (more...) View the full article

VDF's collaboration with musician Rosey Chan continues with this video showing Chan's performance at the opening of Fredrikson Stallard's Hybrideae exhibition. Read more View the full article

A gold pyramid and a suspended rock face feature in British artist Anish Kapoor's abstract set design for the English National Opera's production of Tristan and Isolde (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Harriet Harris, dean of the Pratt Institute School of Architecture in New York, will speak to Dezeen in this live Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch above from 2:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Patagonia's rolling topography and challenging weather informed the design of this slightly bent rural dwelling designed by Chilean architect Ignacio Correa. Read more

Dezeen Wire: in her latest article for The New York Times, design correspondent Alice Rawsthorn profiles Studio H, a humanitarian design project has spent a year teaching design skills to school children in a deprived part of North Carolina - The New York Times Rawsthorn describes the process that Studio H founders Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller undertook with the pupils – providing basic skills that resulted in the creation of a 2,000-square-foot pavilion at a local farmers market – and outlines the benefits of teaching design to students at a formative age. See links to more articles by Alice Rawsthorn here. </img> </img> </img> </img&g…

Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: Chile's Silver Lion-winning pavilion at the biennale centres around a prefabricated concrete wall that is closely tied to both the country's political history and its 20th century housing stock (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The Temporium: these handbags made from old binocular cases by Studio Toogood will be on sale at our pop-up department store The Temporium, opening in London next week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Martino Gamper has curated an exhibition at London's Serpentine Sackler Gallery featuring classic and contemporary shelving systems that display objects chosen by friends and colleagues including Ron Arad, Marc Newson and Ross Lovegrove. (more...) View the full article

Opinion: by excluding architects and focusing on research for this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, Rem Koolhaas has given the world an insight into what he thinks about architecture. The result is less than encouraging, says Kieran Long. (more...) View the full article

Architecture firm Imbue Design has designed this low-lying off-grid residence on a desolate, grassy lot in Idaho for a family to "distance themselves from social stresses". Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: former Foreign Office Architects co-founder Alejandro Zaera-Polo has opened his new studio, Alejandro Zaera-Polo Architecture (AZPA). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article