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Beijing Design Week 2011: Beijing architect Naihan Li presented crates that unfold to become a collection of furniture at a pop-up disco lounge for Beijing Design Week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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

Slideshow: this underground house by London studio De Matos Ryan tunnels beneath a listed stone tower in Gloucestershire, England. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Brazil's Museu Nacional is exhibiting its efforts to recreate ancient artefacts as part of VDF's collaboration with Ventura Projects. 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

Most Loved: London designer Sebastian Wrong reflects on living with the distinctive sound made by his 2007 Font Clock for Established & Sons in the latest movie in our exclusive video series. (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

Dezeen promotion: Italian firm Refin are launching a collection of patterned ceramic tiles with graphic design studio FM Milan at the Cersaie 2012 design event in Bologna this week. (more…) View the full article

Margaux de Penfentenyo is launching Landscape Lamp, a sculptural lighting collection, during the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

World Architecture Festival: in this movie we filmed, architect Vo Trong Nghia explains how the house he designed with a vertical garden on its facade incorporates natural daylighting and ventilation systems that are invaluable in Vietnam, which experiences heavy rain and high temperatures, but often suffers day-long power shortages. (more…) View the full article

The French government has announced plans for a sustainability law that will ensure all new public buildings are built from at least 50 per cent timber or other natural materials. Read more View the full article

German car manufacturer BMW has revealed a new minimalist, flat logo with a transparent backdrop. Read more View the full article

Pegboard display walls and a partition made up of maze-like shelving are just some of the clever storage solutions squeezed into the small homes and tiny apartments that feature in this week's Pinterest roundup. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio Lipton Plant has turned a small space at the side of a Victorian house in north London into the glazed entrance for a basement extension focused around an oak staircase (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival 2016: Bert & May has partnered with London design label Darkroom to create a range of handmade tiles featuring simple geometric shapes (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our latest captioned movie shows The London Mastaba, a 20-metre-high sculpture designed by artists Christo and Jeanne Claude. Read more View the full article

Photographer Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre has sent us these photographs of a curved concrete library in San Sebastian with a narrow courtyard driven through its centre. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house designed by Canadian studio MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple for a site on the Nova Scotia coast comprises a cluster of Corten-clad buildings that are influenced by traditional fishing huts. Read more

Every floor of this Tokyo house by Japanese studio Keiji Ashizawa Design opens onto a garden or terrace. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Renderings of Takei Nabeshima Architects' inverted-pyramidal concrete holiday home and images of the temporary structures erected at this year's Burning Man festival feature in the latest edition of our weekly newsletter, Dezeen Mail. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail › View the full article

Pockets of greenery are used to contrast the bright "canvas" of this white house that Mexican studio Jaime Juárez R Arquitecto has completed in Morelia. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Quentin Blake, the man responsible for illustrating many of author Roald Dahl‘s famous novels, has been announced as the winner of this year’s Prince Philip Designers Prize. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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

Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch, the husband-and-wife team behind design firm Roman and Williams, have created a lofty two-storey emporium in Manhattan's Soho district. Read more View the full article

Curved walls and metallic details bring drama to this family house in southwest London, by architecture studio Eldridge London. Read more View the full article