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The Open House programme, which gives the public a chance to see buildings and sites that are usually off limits, comes to New York this weekend. Here's 10 places we recommend to explore over the next two days. Read more View the full article

Atelier Rua has arranged living spaces in this pared-back Portuguese holiday home around an enormous living room, which has three different vistas of its verdant surroundings. Read more View the full article

News: developers are building a private city on the outskirts of Guatemala City as a safe haven from the crime-ridden capital. (more...) View the full article

Our Christmas shop, The Temporium, opens next week and we’re excited to announce more participants – including British brands Established & Sons and Another Country, and Spanish textile designer Cristian Zuzunaga… as well as Diego Ramos and his chocolate moustaches (above). We’ll also have flying Christmas cards, USB stick necklaces, diamond-shaped lights and much more…(more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stockholm 2012: Londoner Benjamin Hubert has designed a fruit bowl for Swedish brand David Design with concentric circles milled out of a slice of oak, cut deeper as they approach the centre to form a stepped dish. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Yinka Ilori has used his signature colourful and graphic style to create the exhibition design for Get Up, Stand Up Now, a show celebrating half a century of black creativity in the UK. Read more

Maison&Objet 2015: Canadian lighting brand Bocci has launched a light made by forcing molten glass into a loose heat-resistant fabric pillow. (more…) View the full article

Movie: in this second movie from our series in anticipation of an exclusive event we’re hosting at the Nike+ House of Innovation on Thursday, Nike‘s global creative director for the Olympics Martin Lotti explains how they created the Nike Flyknit Racer running shoe with an upper that’s knitted like a sock. (more…) View the full article

Architect Smiljan Radić has designed this secluded black-concrete house among woodland in Vilches, Chile, to feature three huge rooflights that extend at odd angles. Read more View the full article

Adidas has partnered with Danish textile manufacturer Kvadrat to release an edition of its iconic Stan Smith sneakers covered in dotted fabric. Read more View the full article

. This week’s highlights include starchitects excavating a London park, a movie involving Dita Von Teese and a stiletto and a chocolate penis… read on for full details of the week on Dezeen. (more…) View the full article

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

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

Behind a shimmering aluminium facade, the rooms of this Montreal house are organised around a three-tiered courtyard that allows daylight to funnel through to every storey (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Coronavirus will lead to "value shift" in housing design according to architect Alison Brooks, who rejected the trend for micro-homes because "nobody wants less space". Read more View the full article

In the second part of today's collaboration between Virtual Design Festival and Forward Festival, Erik Spiekermann shares seven propositions for designers to remember. Read more View the full article

Bicycles are displayed in backlit boxes at this Barcelona bike store designed by architect Joan Sandoval. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Furniture designers are ditching the skinny look for plump forms that appear to have been pumped full of air. In our latest roundup, we look at 10 designs that represent the trend. Read more View the full article

People have become more sensitive to noise during the coronavirus pandemic, highlighting the importance of good sound design, according to sound artist and designer Yuri Suzuki. Read more View the full article

Architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photos of three health centres in Madrid by Spanish architects Estudio Entresitio, all with identical floor plans but executed in different materials. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Continuing our look back at 2011, here are the five most popular stories from February: first place goes to this house with a slide connecting all three storeys. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In this movie, filmed at Ventura Lambrate in Milan, Arjan van Raadshooven from Vij5 talks to Dezeen about Newspaper Wood, a wood-like material made from recycled newspapers. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A timber pavilion called Biobasecamp at Dutch Design Week brought together projects that demonstrate the potential of the "concrete of the future" to fight against climate change. Read more View the full article

DezeenTV: Vienna designer Marco Dessí kicked off the third day of our Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents, talking us through some of the work he has produced since first exhibiting there in 2006. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Italian brand 3D Surface have launched their inaugural collection of relief wall panels. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article