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This lamp by German designers Tobias Sieber and Samuel Treindl is cast from 10kg of copper, so its value will increase with metal prices. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Each facet that makes up the facade of this community building in Poland by OVO Grabczewscy Architekci is covered in a sheet of shiny ridged copper to create the impression of flames (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architect Ariel Claudet has introduced a network of copper pipes to an otherwise simple studio apartment in Paris, to help it stand out on Airbnb. Read more View the full article

Panels of shimmering copper form the scaly skin of this fire station in Chamonix, which is designed by Studio Gardoni Architectures to reflect the massive Alpine peaks that rise behind it. Read more View the full article

An arched framework of curving pine ribs gives this chapel in Finland by Sanaksenaho Architects a shape more akin to a boat than a building (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Untreated copper cladding will gradually change colour from golden brown to vivid turquoise on the walls and roof of this house near Ghent by Belgian studio Graux & Baeyens Architecten (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Copper panels and local timber clad the exterior of this houseboat in the Netherlands by BYTR Architects, which is moored beside a wooded parkland (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This lagoon-side residence featuring a green copper exterior and a warm cherry-wood interior is part of a series of architect-designed houses built in the grounds of Steven Holl's Nanjing Sifang Art Museum in China (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A modernist house built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon in Hertfordshire, England, has been given a new life with a renovation by architecture studio Coppin Dockray. Read more

DMY Berlin: eight students of the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin presented copies of work by famous designers at DMY Berlin last week as part of a workshop with critic Lucas Verweij. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

DMY Berlin: Zurich designers Kueng Caputo exhibited copies of fellow exhibitors’ work at DMY International Design Festival in Berlin last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A new copyright law in the UK will "wipe out" design book publishing and cripple design education, according to author and publisher Charlotte Fiell. (more…) View the full article

Typically calm colours have been abandoned in favour of bolder hues inside the Haeckels House day spa in Margate, England, designed by the brand's founder Dom Bridges. Read more

Swiss architects Group8 have completed this residential block covered in pink sun screens in Geneva. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: French designer Amaury Poudray has designed this waste-paper bin to be burnt with its contents for design brand Fabrica. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Product news: ten metres of electrical cord are coiled around to form the shade of this pendant lamp by Italian designer Nicolò Barlera. (more…) View the full article

A twisting tower signals the presence of this cultural centre and historical archive in Spanish city Córdoba, which features a huge sloping public square on its roof. Read more View the full article

Architecture practice Core Collective has completed a house in Tasmania featuring a robust material palette of concrete, steel, masonry and timber that complements its rural seaside setting. Read more View the full article

This calming pilates studio in Kensington, London, by Studio Wolter Navarro is divided by a central timber wall inspired by Mexican celosías. Read more

Hong Kong designer Michael Young has designed a showroom in Shanghai to showcase applications for solid surface material Corian. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Nimtim Architects has added a extension clad in cork with contrasting pink windows to a Victorian terrace house in south London. Read more

Slideshow: Israeli studios Monkey Business and Reddish have designed these pins for making little animal characters from wine corks at the dinner table. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British artist Cornelia Parker has created an installation based on the mansion from Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho for this year's Roof Garden commission at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London studio Nicholas Hare Architects used a palette of yellow brick, bronzed aluminium and unfinished timber to construct this secondary school in Essex, England (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

German brand Tecta have put into production a series of storage boxes on sticks originally designed by the late British architect Alison Smithson in 1988. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article