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Clay bricks infused with metal shavings make up the orthogonal exterior of an office and warehouse in Amsterdam designed by a graphic design agency. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Online retail giant Amazon is celebrating the birthday of legendary designer Charles Eames with a pinboard that collects together replicas of his designs sold on the site. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: architect Steven Holl has been named as the winner of this year’s AIA Gold Medal. See all our stories about his work here. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Steven Holl Architects has brushed off criticisms of its Hunters Point library in Long Island City, which opened in September with a number of areas inaccessible to people with disabilities. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: New World Development has added a greenery-filled clubhouse alongside its Fleur Pavilia residences in Hong Kong, to help inhabitants escape the bustle of urban life. Read more

Inside awards: as part of our series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Andy Walker from Nike Football and Sean Pearson from RUFproject about the Football Training Centre in Soweto, which won the culture and civic category. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year the Groninger Museum re-opened in the Netherlands following a renovation including areas designed by Studio Job, Maarten Baas and Jaime Hayón. Also in the Netherlands, Marcel Wanders created a dinner service for Dutch airline KLM and Hella Jongerius presented 300 porcelain vases at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, where forty of them were damaged when a visitor to the museum became ill and fell over. Popular stories on Dezeen included a city with buildings that roll around on train tracks, a bright yellow nursery school outside Stockholm and conceptual packaging design for well-known supermarket products with stripped-back packaging.…

Dezeen Watch Store: Mutewatch, a new touch-screen watch with silent alarm, is now available at Dezeen Watch Store and at our Christmas shop The Temporium. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Our most popular story in April was a giant timber canopy by Architects J. Mayer. H in Spain. Scroll on for our roundup of the rest of the month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A sprawling grid of timber cubes covers the ceiling of a restaurant in Singapore by designers Brewin Concepts. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Argentinean architect Alejandro Sticotti has elevated a wood-clad box above the glazed kitchen and dining room of his family's holiday home on the coast of Uruguay. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this third movie in our series of interviews with OMA co-founder Rem Koolhaas he talks about his new book Project Japan, Metabolism Talks… written in collaboration with curator Hans Ulrich Obrist. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stones and shells from the seashore fill the walls of these eight contemporary British beach huts that London office Pedder & Scampton designed for the seaside town of Southend (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

ECAL graduate Kacper Hamilton has designed a luxury axe with carbon-fibre in its handle and interchangeable heads. (more…) View the full article

Italian studio Park Associati has overhauled a 1960s office block in Milan and added new glass and burnished aluminium facades (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Italian architecture studio Iosa Ghini Associati has worked with Russian firm Mosproekt-3 to complete 47 high-rise buildings clad with colourful panels on the outskirts of Moscow. Read more View the full article

Creative studio Production Club has designed a personal protective suit for clubbing in the time of coronavirus, which includes features for phone integration and beverage and vape consumption. Read more View the full article

Dezeen celebrates its 10th birthday on 17 November 2016! To mark the first Dezeen Decade, we're launching a year-long celebration. Read more View the full article

Japanese designer Kei Harada has created two chairs made completely out of rubber. (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2012: Note Design Studio present a collection of furniture inspired by camping and field trips at Stockholm Design Week this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Colombian practice A5 Arquitectura ran steel balconies and staircases up the front of The Somos hotel so visitors can enjoy the year-round good weather in Medellín. Read more View the full article

Walking along this elevated pathway by German artists Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth is like being on a roller coaster. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Two stone-walled volumes with grassy roofs are embedded into a rural site in Ecuador to form this house, designed by Quito's Rama Estudio. Read more

In the third part of Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with Zoomed In festival, we are streaming a discussion on architectural photography in the media with Anthony Coleman, Edmund Sumner, James Brittain and Robert Torday. The talk will be live-streamed at 5pm UK time. View the full article

This week Richard Meier & Partners unveiled designs for a 34-storey tower in Mexico City, SOM won a competition to design a skyscraper for China with proposals that incorporate a 30-storey-high opening window and the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat in Chicago released a report that revealed a record number of skyscrapers were completed in 2011. Meanwhile Neri&Hu delighted readers with their latest house in Singapore and our most popular story showed visuals of a triangular house to be constructed on a rocky harbourside plot in Sweden. imm cologne is well underway in Germany and you can see all our stories about it here, including a lamp covered in ap…