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Glasgow School of Art graduate Erlend Prendergast has designed a modular robotic device that talks back to Amazon's virtual assistant Alexa in order to protect users from digital surveillance. Read more

Dezeen has changed. We've revamped our site to make it as beautiful as the architecture and design projects we write about. Read more View the full article

A veil of smoke clouds the window of this jewellery shop in Athens, behind which Kois Associated Architects has installed display cases modelled on trees (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Roberto Escobar, brother of the infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar, has launched a gold folding phone using a raunchy campaign featuring women in their underwear. Read more View the full article

"More stuff will not make us happier," say the designers and brands behind this year's Norwegian Presence showcase, who are calling for an industry-wide shift towards recycled and recyclable objects. Read more View the full article

Fourteen Dutch designers show solutions for a more sustainable future in Channelling Change: Inside A Designer's Brain, a virtual exhibition presented here as part of VDF x Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

This week a boat-shaped apartment washed up on the roof of the Southbank Centre in London, dRMM completed a shimmering golden wedding chapel in the British seaside town of Blackpool and we showed images of Renzo Piano’s new wing at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Our most popular stories featured a precariously cantilevered museum in the Alps and a playground pavilion in Copenhagen with funhouse mirrors covering its gabled ends. Meanwhile fuseproject unveiled a tablet version of their One Laptop Per Child project, Nendo previewed the new work they’ll show during Maison & Objet in Paris next week and Konstantin Grcic unveiled his new school chair to …

Exposed concrete is paired with white furnishings in this two-level Kyoto property that Japanese studio UME Architects has converted into a photographer's home and atelier (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A covered street cuts through this new university campus building in northern Brazil designed by Rede Arquitetos, Croquis Projetos and Neudson Braga, providing a shaded and breezy area for students to socialise between classes. Read more

The Seoul office of Dutch designers Studio Dumbar has re-designed the national road signage system for South Korea. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A flight of stairs wraps around the exterior of this mixed-use concrete tower in Seoul's busy Gangnam district, freeing up prime rental space on the ground floor (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: architect Pernilla Ohrstedt's stand design for the Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition will visualise the 3D data driverless cars use to navigate, which she claims will gradually produce a "perfect" digital model of our cities. (more...) View the full article

DMY Berlin: Leipzig designer Yi-Cong Lu presented these collapsible lamps at DMY Berlin earlier this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

March is up next in our roundup of the most popular stories from each month in 2011, with a sixteenth-century house in Girona converted into two contemporary holiday apartments at number one. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Tel Aviv architect Asaf Lerman has renovated a library building designed by Oscar Niemeyer for Israel's Haifa University, and added a new wing to complement its brutalist concrete and glass construction. Read more View the full article

The latest edition of Dezeen Weekly includes a controversial concrete house in Mexico and films with impressive interiors to watch during lockdown. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly › View the full article

London Design Festival 2016: Canadian studio UUffie has embedded metal into the growth lines of wood to create a set of textured tables (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architects working in Morelia, Mexico are choosing to make bold additions in eye-catching white. Here are five striking projects, including a house punctured by trees and a food market. Read 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

In our latest competition, we've teamed up with Tom Faulkner to give a reader the chance to win three cocktail tables from the designer's Lily collection. Read more

London studio (and near-neighbours of Dezeen) Raw Architecture Workshop have designed a partly submerged wooden house for the Scottish Highlands. (more…) </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

Portuguese architects Cerejeira Fontes inserted this slatted timber chapel inside a school for friars in Braga, Portugal (photos: Nelson Garrido). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Orange or Red introduces Dashes, tapestries designed for multifunctional spaces, as part of the VDF x Ventura Project collaboration. Read more View the full article

ÉCAL graduate Marina Daguet has designed a cleaner, modern alternative to the traditional prayer candles found in churches. Read more