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Dezeen Watch Store: Michael Young’s brand new Hacker watch is now available at Dezeen Watch Store, both online and at our Christmas shop The Temporium from tomorrow until 24 December at 65 Monmouth Street, Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9DG. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Check out the latest issue of Dezeen Mail for all the best stories and comments from Dezeen, including the new look for McDonalds, flying robotic construction workers and sex-doll shoes. There’s also an update from Dezeen Wire, the latest movies on Dezeen Screen, all our new competitions and jobs, plus news on our Christmas shop The Temporium. Take a look at it here. Dezeen Mail is sent out every couple of weeks and you can subscribe here. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Seoul studio Cloud and Co have designed this discrete bottle-shaped desktop humidifier. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Kingston University graduate Wen Jing Lai has fused western and eastern cutlery to create a series of hybrid eating utensils. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: design a speaker cover for Copenhagen audio brand Libratone for the chance to win a Libratone Live Airplay sound system worth £599. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: London interior designer Linda Morey Smith is one of the judges of the Inside awards. In this movie filmed by Dezeen she talks about designing the headquarters for Sony Music in London. Watch the movie » Dezeen readers can save 25% on the price of entering the Inside awards and attending the festival in Barcelona from 2-4 November – simply quote VIP code DEZEEN when entering online at www.insidefestival.com. Entries close on 30 June. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: this movie filmed by Dezeen in Milan features Nick Regan, one of the co-founders of kinetic object company Laikingland, presenting their recent work at Ventura Lambrate. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week London firm Stanton Williams completed a home designed to evoke "the spirit of a treehouse" (pictured), and we featured interviews with world-famous architects Zaha Hadid, Moshe Safdie and Álvaro Siza. Read on for more architecture and design highlights. (more…) View the full article

Canadian studio Architecture Microclimat has created a simple athletic facility in Ontario with a lofty ceiling that enables gymnasts to hang high in the air (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: a meals-on-wheels service that brings home cooked food to elderly residents is one of three projects that will share £100,000 awarded by the UK government’s Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) to the winners of a competition that called for innovative ideas to help elderly citizens live more independent lives. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

US architecture firm Studio Dwell has stacked a rectangular volume clad with black zinc on top of a pale brick structure to form this residence on a corner lot in Chicago. Read more View the full article

Stockholm studio Andreas Martin-Löf Arkitekter has completed a cluster of affordable apartment blocks in the Swedish capital, featuring facades with alternating opaque and transparent sections. Read more View the full article

Forensic Architecture and Invisible Institute have created six-video investigation into the killing of an African-American barber Harith Augustus by the police for this year's Chicago Architecture Biennial. Read more

In this week's comments update, readers are poking fun at the Zaha Hadid-designed stadium in Qatar, which will host matches during the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Read more

Dezeen Wire: a feature-length documentary outlining the dangers of poor urban planning and including contributions from leading architects such as Rem Koolhaas and Norman Foster has been released by film director Gary Hustwit. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Customers can get a glimpse of gelato being made inside this ice cream shop in Melbourne, which local studio Ewert Leaf has completed in shades of blue and pink. Read more View the full article

A radical redesign of a door and a fantasy house on stilts (pictured) lead Dezeen Mail issue 189, which also features the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 189 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Danish architects Henning Larsen and Norwegian landscape architect Gullik Gulliksen have won a competition to design municipal offices and a public square in Trondheim, Norway. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

News: relaxing planning restrictions on the green belt would destroy London's vitality "even more surely than it would despoil the countryside," architect Richard Rogers has warned. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen in Israel: elaborate origami sculptures diffuse the light from these lamps by Tel Aviv studio Aqua Creations and origami artist Ilan Garibi. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New York firm SHoP Architects has designed an irregularly stacked office building for the US Embassy in Bangkok. Read more

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

Japanese firm Mount Fuji Architects Studio have squeezed a narrow gate house between two existing Tokyo residences, leading to a main house on the L-shaped site behind. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London studio Logical Art has created a series of papery necklaces with delicate cut-out patterns (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

DesignMarch 2016: product design student Ari Jónsson has combined red algae powder with water to create a biodegradable bottle. (more…) View the full article