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Mexico City's AG Studio has turned a colonial house in San Miguel De Allende, Mexico into a boutique hotel featuring tiled archways and yellow walls that look like a "large corn cob". Read more View the full article

Buck Studio played with colour and texture inside this restaurant in Warsaw, which features boldly contrasting orange fixtures and grooved teal surfaces. Read more

Architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro have proposed a medical education centre at New York’s Columbia University that appears to have had its skin peeled away from its skeleton. (more…) View the full article

The lower floor of this live-work building in Japan was designed by architects SNARK and OUVI as a barber shop, while the upper level contains an apartment featuring a spacious loft (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

McDonald’s restaurants in France will soon be kitted out with designer outdoor furniture by Patrick Norguet and Italian brand Alias. (more…) View the full article

Every attendee at our Dezeen Day conference in London on 30 October will receive a free Herschel backpack worth £60. Read more

Dutch studio MVRDV have won a design competition to build a Comic and Animation Museum in Hangzhou, China, formed of eight giant balloon-shaped forms. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Two designers from different sides of the globe have used a fictional design company to launch a new version of Comic Sans, with added spurs to lend it a "vintage, Mid-Western American aesthetic". (more…) View the full article

Customers of male grooming brand Harry's are taken back to 1950s confectionary advertising, through the comic strip packaging of their Mystery Item product. Read more

Coming to London this summer? Visit us at our pop-up watch store and design emporium Dezeen Super Store, which opens at 38 Monmouth Street, London WC2 on 30 June and stays open throughout the Olympic Games and the London Design Festival until 30 September. (more…) View the full article

London interior designers Studio Toogood have installed a pile of boxes decorated with multi-coloured electrical tape at the Comme des Garcons Aoyama flagship store in Tokyo.The project is Studio Toogood’s second for the fashion label, following their Sneaker department at Dover Street Market in London last year (see our earlier story).Here’s some more information from [...]</img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Concrete is the muse for a new fragrance by Japanese fashion house Comme des Garçons, which comes in a bottle made from the building material. Read more View the full article

Rei Kawakubo is one of the world's best known fashion designers, but never sketches. In this exclusive interview, she discusses her unusual design process, how she set up Comme des Garçons and why she won't be pigeonholed. Read more

Models were disguised within oversized forms made from layers of wadding at this season's Comme des Garçons Autumn Winter 2017 show during Paris Fashion Week. Read more View the full article

Swathes of lace and satin textiles were tied into stuffed bundles and bows to create Japanese fashion house Comme des Garçons' Autumn Winter 2015 collection shown at Paris Fashion Week. (more…)

The German postal service has released a postage stamp, designed by visual artist Thomas Mayfried, to commemorate the 200th birthday of Karl Marx. Read more View the full article

This week, readers pondered the long-term impact of the coronavirus and shared their opinions of Frank Gehry's twisting tower in France. Read more View the full article

Design studio Common Accounts imagines the funeral of the future, where liquefied bodies are used to fertilise plants and flowers, and social media accounts generate a virtual afterlife. Read more View the full article

This movie by filmmakers Stretch documents the ongoing work by Cape Town studio Noero Architects to create a cultural centre within the barracks of Port Elizabeth that were once used as a concentration camp. (more…) View the full article

Brooklyn studio Commoncraft has designed this eatery in the borough's Williamsburg neighbourhood, which is intended as a playful tribute to the owner's grandmother. Read more

LA studio Commune Design has transformed a Mid-Century Modern office building in Durham, North Carolina, into a boutique hotel with geometric patterns and vintage-style decor (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Los Angeles studio Commune has used plaster walls, wood built-ins and terracotta tile floors to create a rustic feel inside this bakery in Santa Monica. Read more View the full article

Catalan designer Martí Guixé has created a series of containers for Italian design brand Alessi, which have arrows and speech bubbles for the user to write messages on. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Square windows with various dimensions sporadically puncture the plain brick exterior of a community centre in Hungary. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The faceted buildings of this community centre look like meteorites that have landed in a rural village in southern Austria (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article