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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

Architecture firm Morphosis has designed a 15-storey mixed-use development in Los Angeles comprising an angular white structure cradling a plant-covered glass tower. Read more View the full article

MAD has transformed a vacant courtyard house in one of Beijing's ancient hutongs by adding two bubble-like workspaces to its roof. Read more View the full article

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

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

Layers of sediment left by the gradual shift of China’s famous Yellow River were the inspiration behind the undulating facade of this arts centre that will be constructed near the city of Yinchuan later this year. (more…) View the full article

Austrian studio [tp3] architekten have completed a stark white house in northern Austria with translucent sliding walls around a grassy courtyard. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A group of University of Tokyo students overseen by architect Kengo Kuma have developed a 3D-printing pen that can be used to create complex architectural structures out of plastic sticks. (more…) View the full article

Researchers at the University of Cambridge and the University of Queensland have created the HappyShield, a origami face shield that is made by folding a sheet of clear plastic. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: Customisable floor lamps and ceiling lights make up the Stem Series lighting collection by Canadian design company Bocci. Read more View the full article

Corten steel columns alternate with floor-to-ceiling glass to bring stripes of light and shadow into this funeral home outside Barcelona by Spanish firm Batlle i Riog Arquitectes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architecture studio FREAKS has clad an old printing warehouse in France shiny corrugated metal cladding and converted it into a research centre for lighting company Sammode. Read more View the full article

London architects Carmody Groarke arranged temporary timber pavilions around the trees in Regent’s Park for this year’s Frieze Art Fair. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Matthew Nurse, director of Nike Sport Research Lab, takes Dezeen behind the scenes at the laboratory where Nike tests new technologies and introduces us to Hal, a sportswear-testing robot that perspires as he runs. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Screen: the latest instalment in our series of interviews with exhibitors at Dezeen Platform features London-based Canadian designer Philippe Malouin, who showed his modular bowls made of waxed concrete at Dezeen Space last autumn. Watch the movie » You can now watch the entire series on Dezeen Screen here. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Watches by popular brands such as Braun, Mondaine and Rosendahl have been reduced by up to 40 per cent in Dezeen Watch Store's biggest ever mid-season sale. Read 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

Stockholm 2014: all of the solid wood furniture in Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune's collection for Japanese brand Matsuso T has five sides (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with bi-monthly publication Architectural Design to give away five copies of their latest issue, Experimental Green Strategies. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This holiday home in Mexican beach town Zihuatanejo was designed by Zozaya Arquitectos to step down a steep slope towards the Pacific Ocean. Read more

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

We've having a busy month... Dezeen Watch Store has relaunched with a new look, a blog and an expanded collection of designer watches. (more...) View the full article

This week on Dezeen: Renzo Piano Building Workshop released new images of its 30-storey Soho Tower in New York this week, while the firm revealed a scaled-down version of its skyscraper proposed for London. (more…) View the full article

Tokyo firm Schemata Architects has created an expandable changing room inside furniture made from shipping crates in this Paris boutique (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

There's a lot more to sound design than special effects, says Yuri Suzuki. The London-based designer talks Dezeen through seven projects that show how he is using design to improve our relationship with noise. Read more