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French architect Patrice Taravella and engineer Terry de Waal have completed a snaking tunnel to create the ideal conditions for growing lilies on a farm in the Western Cape of South Africa. (more…) View the full article

To coincide with the final weeks of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, here’s an interview we filmed at the opening in May with Pierre de Meuron of architects Herzog & de Meuron, in which he talks to Dezeen about how the pavilion was realised in cork to appeal to all the senses and “not only your eyes”. (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with industrial designer Benjamin Hubert (pictured above), design brand Moroso and The Royal College of Art, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with UNStudio, Lee Broom, Theis + Khan and more… (more…) View the full article

A 30-metre-long felled poplar tree protrudes either side of this kiosk by Swedish studio Visiondivision to support a row of playground swings at a country park in Indianapolis (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

New York firm Steven Holl Architects has completed the Sliced Porosity Block, a cluster of five towers around a public plaza in Chengdu, China (+ slideshow + photographs by Hufton + Crow). (more...) View the full article

This dressing table by London designer Florian Schmid comprises a circular mirror with a two-legged table slicing halfway across it. (more...) View the full article

Here are some photos from an exhibition of David Bowie memorabilia that opens this week at London's V&A museum, featuring costumes, album artwork and set designs from his personal archive. (more...) View the full article

The ground floor of Dezeen's north London office The Surgery has been transformed into a walk-in watch shop by local studio Post-Office (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A huge concrete beam appears to balance on its edge along the roof of this Hawaiian house by Californian architect Craig Steely (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A sauna is housed within this wooden hut by Andre Tchelistcheff Architects, which perches on a grassy knoll overlooking the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains in upstate New York (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Sportswear brand Reebok has launched a range of running shoes that shrink to fit the wearer's foot when heated with a hairdryer. (more...) View the full article

Architectural photographer Maxime Delvaux challenged students at Brussels University to create scale models that would appear realistic when photographed (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This house in Kanazawa by Japanese architect Takuro Yamamoto is punctuated by a series of interconnecting voids, including a terrace with a shallow reflecting pool (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: internet giant Google has unveiled a simplified logo that flattens its colours and ditches the drop shadow. (more...) View the full article

Product news: designer Michael Young has created a wooden dining chair for Hong Kong design brand EOQ. (more...) View the full article

Spanish design studio Masquespacio chose hospital colours for the exterior, interior and branding of this smartphone and tablet repair shop in Valencia (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The stem of this task lamp designed by Bao-Nghi Droste forms an exaggerated loop behind the conical shade (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The not-yet-realised interior of Herzog & de Meuron's Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg can now be toured by computer and tablet users via a fly-through model created by digital studio Neutral (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

News: Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has unveiled plans for a tower block shaped like a pine cone with balconies sprouting outwards in all directions, as part of a series of "modern follies" underway in Montpellier, France (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: the Salone Internazionale del Mobile fair opens in Milan today, where Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec are showing a range of metal and carved wood chairs for Italian brand Mattiazzi. (more...) View the full article

A barrel-vaulted roof sits atop this family holiday home, completed by architect Mats Fahlander over the rocky terrain of a Swedish national park (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Stacked concrete and timber boxes frame the rooms of this guesthouse near Australia's Great Ocean Road, by Melbourne studio Whiting Architects. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: UK design show designjunction will bring together showrooms across central London to form the West End Design Quarter during this year's London Design Festival. (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2014: this copper pendant light by London-based Paul Crofts Studio alludes to pastry-cutting utensils, a reference to the patisserie it was originally designed for. (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers nai010 to give readers the chance to win one of five compendiums filled with the most innovative projects by Dutch designers completed over the past year. (more...) View the full article