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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

Dezeen Space closes on Sunday 16 October so hurry down if you haven’t already to check out our micro-exhibition that changes daily, see specially commissioned sculptures by Dominic Wilcox, browse our latest Dezeen Watch Store pop-up, hang out at the Dezeen lounge and pick up your copy of the new Dezeen Book of Ideas for just £12. See you there! Dezeen Space Until 16 October Monday-Saturday 11am-7pm Sunday 11am-5pm 54 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3QN </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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

London designers Studiolav have declared the pencil redundant and redesigned it for life in a pencil-pot graveyard. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Theodora Alfredsdottir speaks to Dezeen in a live Screentime conversation sponsored by Philips TV & Sound as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch the broadcast from 2:15pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Architect@Work, an international trade fair showcasing architectural supplies, will take place in London on 27-28 January 2016 from 1-8pm. (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

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

News: Storm Thorgerson, the British graphic designer who created the iconic album sleeve for Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, has died aged 69. (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

As cities grow and bee populations continue to dwindle, designers are increasingly looking for ways to bring nature to urban areas. In celebration of World Bee Day, we've rounded up seven urban shelters for the vital insects. Read more View the full article

This week Thomas Heatherwick unveiled the prototype of his New Bus for London, Snøhetta released proposals for a Maggie’s cancer care centre in Aberdeen and Foster + Partners won a competition to design a high-speed rail station in northwest Spain. Readers decided Zaha Hadid’s car park for Miami beach must have been designed with action movie settings in mind and two New York designers sent us pictures of their handy riot-shield-cum-coffee-table invention. English heritage announced that the iconic 1986 Lloyd’s of London building designed by Richard Rogers is to be given Grade I listed status and a team of Dutch designers including Hella Jongerius, architect Rem Koolh…

Tel Aviv's Studio Amit has opted for colourful details to add flair to this retirement housing development in Israel. Read more View the full article

The Media-ICT office building by Cloud 9 Architects has won the World Building of the Year 2011 at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona. You can see more information on the winning design here and our previous stories on the World Architecture Festival here, including announcements of all of the category winners. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year we featured a couple of wacky clocks – a timepiece of unfurling paper that creates ever-changing shapes, and a belt-driven clock for an architect. We also revealed the news that Norman Foster was working on proposals for a new California campus for computer giant Apple, which we published in the summer. Meanwhile Singaporean designer Tan Lun Cheak produced a glass table that doubles up as a cooker and Milan designer Emanuele Pizzolorusso created a set of paper maps that can survive being screwed up in a pocket or rucksack. We featured a residence clad in tarred black shingles from the Living Architecture series of holiday homes, as well as a large ho…

This adaptable shelter system is providing temporary housing for refugees displaced by conflict in their home countries. (more…) View the full article

German industrial designer Luigi Colani, renowned for his curvaceous product and transport designs, has died in his home country at the age of 91. Read more

London designer Giles Miller installed this bar for Inside World Festival of Interiors at a former petrol station as part of Clerkenwell Design Week in London last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

One year ago Zaha Hadid Architects unveiled designs for an enormous undulating arts centre in Chengdu, China and Michael Graves & Associates completed a building for the Dutch national automobile museum inspired by a traditional carriage house. A Japanese home with stairs covering the façade divided opinion, with some of our readers saying it looked like stadium bleachers, while one reader described a monolithic office and residential complex by Erick van Egeraat as an “ugly big charmless building!”. Meanwhile, British designer Robin Day passed away aged 95, architects Carmody Groarke designed an interior for a fashion exhibition with backlit partitions that resem…

A major initiative aiming to rid a rubbish-riddled area of the Pacific Ocean from its discarded plastic will begin work within the next 12 months. Read more View the full article

Milan 2011: Design Academy Eindhoven will host a series of talks with academy graduates plus designers including Jurgen Bey and Piet Hein Eek and moderated by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs in the Porta Romana district of Milan on 13 April. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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

In the fourth part of today's collaboration between Virtual Design Festival and Forward Festival, artist and designer Sarah Illenberger discusses how she makes illustrations from everyday objects. Read more View the full article

British illustrator Toby Melville-Brown imagines impossible architectural structures in his latest drawing series. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this next movie from our series filmed at the opening of OMA/Progress at the Barbican in London, OMA partner Iyad Alsaka explains how the firm charted the Libyan desert, having been asked how to best exploit it for tourism. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article