News Feed

From residential interiors to hotels and restaurants, terrazzo has been widely used by architects and designers in recent years. Our updated terrazzo Pinterest board includes the latest projects published on Dezeen that feature the design. Read more View the full article

The colour of light emitted by this lamp can be controlled using syringes filled with red, green and blue ink (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

We've reached the final day of our festive countdown, so in the first of three final posts today here's Chinese architect Li Xiaodong, whose projects include a school that bridges a creek between two castles and a library clad with firewood (pictured). See more architecture by Li Xiaodong » View the full article

A warm material palette is used to transport customers from the urban grit of New York City into this cosy bakery designed by local firm GRT Architects. Read more

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

Stockholm 2013: Swedish studio Front has designed a collection of glassware with frosted bottoms for Danish brand Stelton. (more...) View the full article

Danish designer Simon Legald has added a two-seater sofa to his Era lounge collection for Normann Copenhagen, responding to market demand for smaller sofas (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Perforated wooden shutters allow the residents of this São Paulo apartment building by Studio MK27 to control the levels of daylight in their living spaces (+ slideshow). (more…)

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

Forty-five years of innovative fashion and design by Issey Miyake are on display at the National Art Center in Tokyo (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

You can now order Dezeen Book of Ideas at the reduced price of only £10 instead of £12. This special offer will run for a limited time so get yours quickly! Read on for more details or buy your copy online here. (more...) View the full article

Architecture firm OMA and landscape studio Olin have released updated visuals for 11th Street Bridge Park – a raised garden that will extend over Washington DC's Anacostia River. Read more View the full article

News: surgically implanted chips that feed digital information directly into the brain will supersede wearable technology, according to the co-founder of a leading 3D imaging studio. (more...) View the full article

Italian design office Make That Studio has unveiled a jug based on the water-smoothed shapes of riverbed pebbles (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London studio 6a Architects has renovated a seaside house in Devon, England, transforming its old dark rooms into bright, tactile living spaces. Read more

Dezeen promotion: check out the future of hotel design in the Sleepotel conceptual hotel installation at The Sleep Event in London later this month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen discusses the future of urban spaces in this talk with furniture brand Vestre, design studio Front and landscape architect Thorbjörn Andersson. Watch the talk from Stockholm Design Week live from 5:30pm UK time. Read more

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

Japanese studio Nendo has designed a collection of ceramic tableware with handles to help store them in compact spaces and carry hot food. (more…) View the full article

The Chinese government has issued a decree "strictly prohibiting" the plagiarism of buildings in the country and severely limiting the construction of supertall skyscrapers. Read more View the full article

Zahira Asmal, an urbanist from South Africa, has been forced to cancel a planned lecture in London after a "humiliating" experience with UK visa services. Read more

Dezeen Wire: British architect Richard Rogers has warned that plans by the UK government to simplify planning regulations could lead to unmoderated urban sprawl, “with rust belts and towns joining each other” – Daily Mail He added: “If the framework is not improved it will lead to the breakdown and fragmentation of cities and neighbourhoods as well as the erosion of the countryside.” Rogers’ concerns about the government’s new National Planning Policy Framework are shared by environmental campaigners who say they don’t offer a clear enough definition of sustainable development. Richard Rogers was involved in a planning battle in 2009 over his proposed redevelopment of…

Roberto Escobar, brother of the infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar, has launched a gold folding phone using a raunchy campaign featuring women in their underwear. Read more View the full article

Fourteen Dutch designers show solutions for a more sustainable future in Channelling Change: Inside A Designer's Brain, a virtual exhibition presented here as part of VDF x Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

Dara Huang, founder of architecture studio Design Haus Liberty, will speak to Dezeen in this live Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch above from 2:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article