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Foster + Partners has revealed visuals of Le Dôme winery that is designed to blend in with the rolling hills of the historic commune Saint-Émilion in France. Read more

Home rentals website Airbnb has launched its own design studio, creating a house of the future for a Tokyo exhibition as its first project (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Today VDF teams up with Schloss Hollenegg for a live tour of the historic castle in Austria with curator Alice Stori Liechtenstein at 6:00pm UK time. Read 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…

Nigerian designer Nifemi Marcus-Bello has designed a flat-pack desk that can store its own legs for easy transport. Read more View the full article

A glass bridge connects a concrete house with wonky windows to an artist’s studio in Puebla, Mexico. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect David Chipperfield has attacked the way the British press reports on architecture and accused journalists of damaging the profession. (more…) View the full article

Mountain Bar and Restaurant in Guizhou Province, China by ZJJZ Atelier has sliding glass doors and a screen of wooden louvres that can be folded back. Read more

Californian architects amphibianArc have designed a shape-shifting “transformer building” for a Chinese machinery company, with a facade that flaps like the wings of a huge insect (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

VDF products fair: the Squar tile collection by Italian designer Giovanni Barbieri features three-dimensional elements to bring a relief-effect to walls. Read more View the full article

Students from the Collaborative and Industrial Design program at Helsinki's Aalto University have created five new concepts for coffee machines and other household products, aiming to "simplify and clarify" existing models (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Greek architects K-studio have completed a rustic pizzeria modelled on an Italian courtyard in the centre of Athens. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A faceted glass shroud cloaks these former shipbuilding warehouses in Elsinore, Denmark, which architects AART have converted into a cultural centre. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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

Lisbon architecture office Cais has renovated and extended an outdated house in the city, preserving its existing facade and creating an open-plan interior that extends into a new terraced garden at the rear (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka will present a series of clear acrylic furniture for Italian brand Kartell in Milan next week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architects Takeshi Hosaka have completed this office building in the Tokyo suburb of Yoyogi. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An exhibit of furniture by American artist Donald Judd is on display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, accompanied by a guide with photographs of his New York and Marfa studios. Read more View the full article

LA-based architect and visual artist Dan Huh has created a set of images that depict Paul Rudolph's original design for the celebrated Milam Residence in Florida (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Today is Dezeen’s actual fifth birthday! Thanks for all your lovely tweets – we’ll publish a selection of them below. We’ve also been compiling our five most memorable parties, stories and projects since we launched in 2006 – take a look back with us here. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Huge photographic prints conjure the illusion of translucent marble over the glass walls of this music library at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Lighting brand Plumen is the latest to enter the children's design market, adding strands of colourful bunting to its low-energy pendants (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Today Virtual Design Festival teams up with Lisbon's MAAT museum to present its collaboration with architect SO-IL. First, Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu of SO-IL explain their Beeline installation in this exclusive video. Read more View the full article

The asymmetric timber roof of this distillery by architects Hammerschmid, Pachl, Seebacher rises up amongst the trees of a valley in Upper Austria. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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