News Feed

This house near Hamilton, Ontario, relies on a combination of fireplaces and straw walls to keep it warm, with a rooftop meadow adding to its green credentials (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Aviation firm Airbus have unveiled a conceptual aeroplane with a transparent cabin and virtual golf course. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Paris 2012: Spanish designer Jaime Hayón presents these figurines for porcelain brand Lladró at Maison & Objet in Paris this weekend. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This sculpture of a boy and rocking horse by Berlin artists Elmgreen and Dragset will be the next installation on top of the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This range of colourful vessels by Swiss designer 
Dimitri Bähler is intended to "question the concept of usefulness in our homes". Read more View the full article

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

Dezeen promotion: a personalised flower generated by an algorithm has won the wallpaper category in the Samsung Mobile Design Competition. Read more View the full article

Concrete surfaces and just a smattering of furnishings provide a "silent stage" for members using this Berlin co-working space, designed by Annabell Kutucu. Read more View the full article

The "hellish and beautiful" architecture of Wes Anderson's new film Isle of Dogs takes its cues from the work of Japanese architect Kenzo Tange, says production designer Paul Harrod. Read more View the full article

A steep wooden roof covers the staggered levels of this family house in the Japanese city of Fujieda by architect Yoshiyasu Mizuno, concealing its full scale from certain angles. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio FREAKS has clad an old printing warehouse in France shiny corrugated metal cladding and converted it into a research centre for lighting company Sammode. Read more View the full article

This office and residential building near Quito, Ecuador was designed by local studio Diez+Muller to enclose a staggered atrium for yoga classes and gardens. Read more View the full article

London Design Festival 2011: architect David Chipperfield has installed two metallic glass pavilions outside the Royal Festival Hall in London as part of the London Design Festival (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Our last Dezeen Mail this year leads with the recently opened Stonehenge Visitor Centre and also features the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 183 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Dezeen's videos received over 30 million plays in 2016. For our review of the year, studio director Ben Hobson has selected the 10 that sum up the year, including our interview with Bjarke Ingels at the opening of this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion and our video tribute to the late Zaha Hadid. Read more View the full article

A London exhibition of animated gifs allowed visitors to view artworks via a custom-designed app on a smart phone or tablet using augmented reality. (more...) View the full article

Opinion: the restored heritage site of Dubrovnik, with its Game of Thrones-buoyed tourism industry, is a historical drag act that exposes conflicting tensions between history, reconstruction and modernity, says Sam Jacob. (more...) View the full article

Another Country's adjustable Work Series furniture is designed to combat perceptions of the office as "cold and clinical". Read more View the full article

This installation by South Korean studio ArchiWorkshop involved wrapping the interior of an abandoned house in Seoul in a layer of gauzy fabric to evoke a shamanistic death ritual. Read more

Figures appear as ghostly silhouettes behind the translucent white fabric that partitions these New York offices by architects SO-IL. (more…) View the full article

This time last year Foster + Partners completed a solar-powered urban development in Abu Dhabi and unveiled plans for a museum in the same city with wing-shaped towers designed to act as thermal chimneys. Dezeen compiled an extensive report for kitchen appliances brand Scholtès that explored the relationship between food and design, Yves Béhar of Fuseproject sent us early sketches of his Jambox speaker and we rounded up all of our stories on education buildings. Zaha Hadid Architects’ proposal for a theatre in Morocco was described by one reader as looking like “a giant mobile phone or maybe a vacuum cleaner,” and architect Álvaro Leite Siza designed a home for himsel…

Gary Hustwit will speak to Dezeen in a live Screentime conversation as part of Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with the filmmaker. Watch the talk above from 2pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Cakes decorated like creepily realistic babies and pencils with the alphabet painstakingly carved into their tips are among the exhibits at power of Making, which opened at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London yesterday. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In his latest contribution to Virtual Design Festival, architecture video blogger Martin van der Linden reveals some of Tokyo's "invisible" waterways, which flow beneath the city's roads and pavements. Read more View the full article

Decorative tiles salvaged from different apartments are rearranged in stripes across the floor of this Barcelona residence by Spanish studio Bach Arquitectes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article