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Dezeen Wire: the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and the Design Council have expressed support for a new housing strategy announced by the UK government that aims to deliver high quality homes rather than a higher volume of poor standard properties. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The public library for an arts centre in South Korea is condensed into a cube at the centre of a room. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architects 403architecture have turned the floor of this refurbished apartment in Hamamatsu into a huge chest of drawers. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s another new watch from our 2012 Dezeen Watch Store collection. The stainless steel BN0042 is a square-faced timepiece from the Braun range. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This track by Jordan Mitchell starts off innocently enough with an intricate repeating acoustic guitar riff, before a big, dirty synth bass-line drops in taking the track in a completely different direction. About Dezeen Music Project | More tracks | Submit your track View the full article

Designed in Hackney: Hackney designer Gitta Gschwendtner is best known for her anthropomorphic furniture and lamps, and this movie by Justin Anderson brings them to life in a surreal living room setting. (more…) View the full article

This snaking concrete pavilion by Norwegian studio Reiulf Ramstad Architects winds down from a road to the beach along the edge of the Arctic Ocean. (more…) View the full article

Google‘s new London headquarters by designers PENSON features Union Jack flags, balcony gardens and allotments where staff can grow vegetables (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Norwegian designer Kristine Five Melvær has designed a series of lamps that look like buds about to burst into bloom. (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: it’s day two of the World Architecture Festival in Singapore and today 17 more award winners have been announced, including a house for New Zealand, a school with caged balconies and three projects by architects Hassell. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow feature: this set of images by Dutch architectural photographer Iwan Baan shows the scene in New York over the past week as the city recovers from the effects of Hurricane Sandy that swept across Manhattan last Monday, cutting the electricity and flooding the streets and subways. (more…) View the full article

News: Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer has died in Rio de Janeiro aged 104. (more…) View the full article

Bright red columns interrupt a monochrome interior inside this fashion boutique in a Montreal warehouse by Canadian firm Saucier + Perrotte Architectes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: designer Werner Aisslinger of Berlin and Singapore has created a storage system for German brand Flötotto that's held together by plastic clips. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Dutch tile company Mosa has launched three ranges of ceramic wall tiles that use graduated colour, contrasting textures and embossed surfaces to modulate light falling across a wall. (more...) View the full article

This outdoor urinal by French design studio Faltazi slots into a straw bale to recycle pee from festivalgoers into compost. (more...) View the full article

Mesh cloaks and structured veils in this fashion collection by Nicolas Alan Cope and Dustin Edward Arnold conjure ghostly apparitions. (more...) View the full article

This sofa by New Zealand design graduate Marvin Reber can be taken apart and reassembled to form play apparatus for children (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Product news: this collection of office furniture by Japanese design studio Nendo can be screwed together with a coin rather than tools (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Music: British director Ruffmercy drew influence from the work of American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat for this fast-paced animated video for a track by rappers Young Thug, Freddie Gibbs and A$AP Ferg. (more…) View the full article

News: New Zealand firm Martin Aircraft Company has been given permission by the country's Civil Aviation Authority to conduct manned test flights on what it claims is the world's first practical jetpack. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen broke the three biggest stories of the London Design Festival this week: the news that graphic designer Peter Saville won the London Design Medal and is working on a new visual identity for Kanye West; and the announcement that the V&A museum has acquired the first 3D-printed gun. Read on for more of this week's best bits... (more...) View the full article

Following a string of rural cabins for artists, Saunders Architecture of Norway has completed a hotel and gallery on stilts for the picturesque Fogo Island in Canada (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

We've been soaking up the sun at Design Miami this week, where a previously unbuilt house by Charlotte Perriand (pictured) and 3D-printed wearable sculptures are among the projects on display. Read on for more of the week's top architecture and design news. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: French botanist Patrick Blanc, the inventor of green walls, explains how he created the hanging gardens on the outside of Herzog & de Meuron's new Pérez Art Museum in our next movie from Miami. (more...) View the full article