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Japanese studio Sides Core has created a space inside a hair salon for the owner's books, art and music (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Designers and artists including Paul Smith, Quentin Blake, Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen and Tracey Emin have customised classic Ant chairs by Arne Jacobsen, which will be auctioned in order to raise money for Jamie Oliver’s Better Food Foundation. (more…) View the full article

It's day five of Milan design week and this year's best exhibits at the Salone del Mobile furniture fair are emerging on our #milanogram2017 hashtag, including standout installations from the Euroluce lighting fair. Read more View the full article

Lund University graduate Anna Gudmundsdottir created this homeware collection "backwards" by starting with the manufacturers' input rather than the design. Read more View the full article

Trace Architecture Office designed zigzagging ramps running round Huandou School in Haikou, China, to encourage interaction and play between students outside the classroom. Read more View the full article

Architects, designers and industry figures including Patrik Schumacher, Michael Young, Alison Brooks and Lee Broom joined Dezeen at London's Ace Hotel last week to celebrate the launch of the inaugural Dezeen Hot List. Read more View the full article

Hundreds of circular holes puncture a faceted bronze extension to a fortified museum in Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland, that is set to reopen next month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Montreal design studio Lambert & Fils has used the limbo of lockdown to create four "brothers and sisters" for its popular Dorval 01 light, which are being displayed digitally for the first time as part of the VDF x Sight Unseen collaboration. Read more View the full article

In the third part of today's collaboration between Virtual Design Festival and Forward Festival, Freitag creative director Pascal Dulex explains how the Swiss accessories brand evolved from making bags out of truck tarpaulins to creating compostable clothes. Read more View the full article

Walking along this elevated pathway by German artists Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth is like being on a roller coaster. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Copenhagen studio Moebe has designed a storage system that can be assembled without tools and uses wooden wedges to hold its shelves in place. Read more View the full article

An assortment of windows are randomly scattered across the timber facade of this budget hotel outside Le Mans, France. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers Myrdle Court Press to give readers the chance to win books about Trenton Oldfield's time spent behind bars after disrupting the Oxford-Cambridge boat race. (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

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

Dezeen promotion: Improving sustainability, encouraging community and helping people navigate the data economy are some of the things that media architecture can offer. Read more

This week on Dezeen we launched a Virtual Design Festival featuring a live video interview with Li Edelkoort and messages from architects and designers from across the world. Read more View the full article

The Temporium: illustrator Vic Lee‘s intricate prints documenting London streets are on show at our Christmas shop The Temporium, open 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

Opinion: "smart" technology promises to make our lives easier by learning what we like and giving us more of it, says Reinier de Graaf. But who will really be in control when the machines know everything about us? (more…) View the full article

Los Angeles studio Dan Brunn Architecture has designed this Las Vegas boutique with clothes hanging on blackened-steel frames and shoes displayed on glass shelves that light up. Read more

The culture, climate and resources of Tanzania's Kilimanjaro region informed the design of this refuge for victims of domestic violence, made up of various yellow buildings arranged around a courtyard (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A black steel-framed glass house by architecture studio Bence Mulcahy extends a 19th-century villa in Mount Stuart, Tasmania. Read more View the full article

Milan 2015: Danish studio Norm Architects has created a collection of bathroom furnishings and accessories, including a matching wash basin and bathtub perched on slim metal legs (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

To coincide with Design Shanghai, we've curated a Pinterest board celebrating the best architecture and design that the city has to offer, including a shopping centre with a tessellating diamond facade by UNStudio and iridescent furniture created from electroplated stainless steel. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›