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VDF products fair: Californian manufacturer Meteor Lighting's Lance series features cylindrical, outdoor wall lights, designed to accentuate the architectural elements of a building. Read more View the full article

Five aluminium-clad volumes are stacked up like a pile of horizontal skyscrapers at this office complex outside Oslo by Norwegian studio A-Lab (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A glowing wall that gently pulsates and chairs that showcase a spectrum of light and colour form the huge installation that Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka and LG have created in Milan. Read more View the full article

Architects Oyler Wu Collaborative wound more than 13,000 metres of rope through steel frames to create this screen wall for Dwell on Design 2012 in Los Angeles (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

This week high-profile architects have been making the news, as Frank Gehry completed two homes for hurricane victims (above) and Zaha Hadid revealed designs for a limited edition speedboat (below). (more…) View the full article

Windows of various shapes and sizes give this weekend retreat on the south coast of Japan the appearance of a children's shape-sorter toy. (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

The Wing, a co-working club dedicated to women, has opened a hub in Chicago featuring details that draw on 20th-century architect Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie-style. Read more

Sea Stone is a concrete-like material made from seashells that Newtab-22 is introducing during the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

The SpaceX port that Elon Musk is building in Boca Chica, Texas, for launching commercial rockets to Mars, is at risk of being cut in two by Donald Trump's US-Mexico border wall. Read more

New York firm Studio Zung has reinterpreted the traditional wooden barns of Long Island to design this house in one the high-end seaside communities of the Hamptons (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen is proud to have been included in a list of the top 100 “people who count” in the design world in the latest issue of French magazine Architectural Digest. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Estonian architects KAMP have completed a timber house outside Tallinn that’s cranked around an oak tree. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dublin designers Notion have established their own design brand called NTN with an inaugural collection featuring wooden sunglasses, an aluminium watch and a table with a hammock underneath (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Slideshow: Russian architect Peter Kostelov has removed the welded metal walls of an apartment he first completed seven years ago and replaced them with light timber partitions. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Many brands are altering their logos to promote social distancing and creating adverts to encourage staying at home during the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

Studioshaw has won an ideas competition for the Scottish city Dundee with its plans for a sunken courtyard to race drones and prototype virtual reality games. Read more View the full article

This rug by Barcelona designer Martín Azúa is woven like the soles of espadrille shoes. (more…) View the full article

UK prime minister Theresa May highlighted the importance of creativity to the nation on a day when over 100 leading artists claimed government policies were putting the creative industries at risk. Read more View the full article

Amsterdam museum Looiersgracht 60 is hosting a solo exhibition of work by Dutch designer Aldo Bakker that consists of just five jugs. (more…) View the full article

Five years ago this week Dezeen arrived in Milan for the 2007 Salone Internazionale del Mobile, where we saw a lamp comprising a cluster of writhing human bodies and a vase made by bees. Both Phillippe Starck and Ron Arad were presenting new chairs for furniture brand Driade, while Toyo Ito showed a spherical light made from layers of delicate fibre mesh. Elsewhere Established and Sons launched their cartoon graphics-style cabinets alongside Jasper Morrison’s storage units that look like crates. Back in the UK, we revealed the news that Jean Nouvel was to design the new Philharmonie de Paris, although a series of financial problems have stalled its construction, and UNS…

Dezeen Screen: in this next interview filmed at Dezeen Space, designers LingJing Yin, Mark McKeague and Ting Chung Jessica Cheng demonstrate how they created a soundscape at Dezeen Platform by channeling the electrical charge in people’s bodies, then amplified the sound by asking visitors to link up. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

For the second lecture screened exclusively for the VDF x reSITE collaboration, Marianthi Tatari of Dutch architect UNStudio talks about how technology can help architects design neighbourhoods that serve people better. Read more View the full article

News: Herzog & de Meuron, Zaha Hadid and Grimshaw are among the shortlisted architects in a competition to overhaul Melbourne's iconic nineteenth-century railway station at Flinders Street. (more...) View the full article

VDF products fair: Canadian design company Bocci has launched a range of table lamps with sculptural glass shades. Read more View the full article