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Dezeen Screen: in this movie that we filmed at Qubique 2011, Philipp Mainzer, founder of German furniture brand E15, talks about the furniture and accessories the company showed during the Berlin design fair. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: Australian bathroom accessories brand Phoenix has released its Axia collection of taps, which feature a minimalist design and thin cantilevered spouts. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: UK designers have two more days to take part in a government survey aimed at improving intellectual property laws. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Artist Max Siedentopf has created a series of art works, called Home Alone – A Survival Guide, that depict challenges that can be taken on at home during coronavirus lockdown. Read more View the full article

Designers Reed and Delphine Krakoff have created a series of "archetypical" seats in grey felt for British brand Established & Sons. (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

British designer Ben Thompson has combined the grandeur of a Georgian manor with the informality of a modern farmhouse for the interiors of a new hotel in Hampshire, England. Read more

Comedy skyscraper stories dominated August, when a Spanish residential tower was reportedly built without a working elevator and a Chinese businessman made himself a home resembling a fake mountain on top of a Beijing housing block (pictured). (more...) View the full article

French designer Philippe Starck has created an aerosol spray that lets users enjoy alcohol without getting drunk or hungover. (more…) View the full article

In collaboration with PechaKucha, Virtual Design Festival is broadcasting a live programme of talks from 3:00am UK time featuring speakers in Wuhan, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Orlando and Tokyo. Read more View the full article

A Back to the Future-style hoverboard (pictured), Kengo Kuma's first public commission in America and 11 lost icons of Postmodern architecture feature in Dezeen Mail issue 265. There's also the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 265 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Skyscrapers in Seoul: Chicago architects Murphy/Jahn have designed two towers under one roof for the western side of South Korea’s new commercial centre, the Yongsan International Business District of Seoul. (more…) View the full article

A colonial house in Mérida, Mexico has been revitalised into a cultural hub for the city's annual festival of lights by local studio Workshop Architects. Read more View the full article

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has sculpted marble into a convincingly rippling pool for his Petite Loire installation, created for this year's International Garden Festival (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Stilts elevate this small winter cabin by Delordinaire above a snow-laden slope in Quebec, sheltering beneath its base an outdoor living space with a warming stove. Read more View the full article

Manufacturers in Spain are reopening their factories after two weeks in total lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus, with brands to promising to "bounce back". Read more View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2011: components for this furniture by Rotterdam designers Minale-Maeda can be downloaded, 3D-printed and assembled locally. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The rippled timber core of this reindeer observation pavilion by architects Snøhetta mirrors the curves of the surrounding Dovre Mountains in Norway. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designer Matali Crasset presents a series of vessels shaped like horns, speaker components and loudhailers at Mica Gallery near Rennes in France. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Major high-rise developments are razing the architectural past of Los Angeles at a rapid rate, says the production designer behind the 1960s sets of Quentin Tarantino's movie, Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood. Read more

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a product designer to join Patricia Urquiola's Milan studio, which recently designed the first new hotel to be built on the shores of Italy's Lake Como in decades. More › View the full article

A plant-filled stack of timber beams forms the reception desk of an environmental association’s headquarters in San Francisco. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Daniel Svahn's chairs for a town hall in Stockholm are made from upcycled unwanted tabletops that were destined for the dump. Read more View the full article

News: Finnish studio ALA Architects has won the international competition to design a new public library in Helsinki with plans that involve a mass of twisted timber (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Hackney designer Magnus Pettersen will contribute a side table from his Locker furniture collection to the Stepney Green Design Collection curated by Dezeen. (more…) View the full article