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Dezeen Screen: this bookmark designed by Oscar Lhermitte hovers over the page as you read, poised to dive between the correct pages automatically as you shut the book. Watch the movie » (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Offset gabled volumes form a new classroom and play area at this infant school in Oxfordshire, England, by local firm Jessop and Cook Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Another Country's adjustable Work Series furniture is designed to combat perceptions of the office as "cold and clinical". Read more View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers are pondering the possibility of adding a pool bar, water slide and sharks to an infinity pool on top of a skyscraper. Read more

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

Check out the latest issue of Dezeen Mail for all the best stories and comments from Dezeen, including a Snoopy-shaped border checkpoint and stocking-shaped blood pack. There’s also an update from Dezeen Wire, the latest movies on Dezeen Screen, all our new competitions and jobs, plus news on our Christmas shop The Temporium. Dezeen Mail is sent out every couple of weeks and you can subscribe here. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects' vast transit hub in downtown San Francisco will eventually connect 11 regional, state and national public transport modes, and is topped with a public park. Read more View the full article

Designer Fabio Novembre questions the desire to return to normal after the coronavirus pandemic, claiming that "the virus is in the system we used to live in", in a video message recorded for Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

Webbed fabric is stretched over crossed wire hoops to form these cocoon-like pendant lamps by New York studio Rich Brilliant Willing. (more...) View the full article

Models were suspended in vacuums between plastic sheeting during Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen's Autumn Winter 2014 show at Paris Fashion Week. (more...) View the full article

This pendant lamp based on a flower by Russian designer Constantin Bolimond would open and illuminate when it senses low light. (more...) View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a technical director at Bjarke Ingel's firm in Copenhagen, whose projects include a combined power plant and ski slope that blows smoke rings (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

American arts administrator Bettina Korek has been appointed CEO of London's Serpentine Galleries following Yana Peel's resignation earlier this year. Read more View the full article

Margo Konings, co-founder of Dutch design agency Organisation in Design and co-organiser of Milan's Ventura Lambrate design district, has left the company. (more…)

The street-facing elevation of this brick and steel extension to a 1920s Montreal property echoes the proportions of the original building, but at the rear a large angular outcrop projects over the back garden (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

French studio Bang Architectes has converted a former peanut factory in Calais into a skateboarding park with a bright orange mesh facade (photos by Julien Lanoo). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year Christmas cards from architects Zaha Hadid, Threefold, and Coop Himmelb(l)au, as well as designers Tom Dixon, Studio Job and Marcel Wanders were getting everyone into the festive spirit. We took a break from eating mince pies to feature windows that create constantly changing shadows in response to the wintery weather outside, a chair shaped like an oar and a picnic pavilion comprising a giant pillow on stilts. Our most popular stories over the holidays were two concrete houses by Japanese architects Apollo, one that readers thought could do with windows and another that was inspired by a drawer being pulled out of a box. See all our stories from…

Architectural designer John Pawson has transformed a pair of second world war telecommunication bunkers into an art and furniture museum in Berlin's Kreuzberg neighbourhood. Read more View the full article

Architect Lorenzo Grifantini stacked the bedrooms of his own house in Puglia, Italy, inside a 12-metre-high white tower overlooking a large courtyard. Read more View the full article

Forty-five years of innovative fashion and design by Issey Miyake are on display at the National Art Center in Tokyo (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Inside 2011: Bar Code Office by Singapore studio Ministry of Design has just been announced as the winner of the offices category at the inaugural Inside awards in Barcelona. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stackable football pitches could be erected on disused or temporarily empty plots across London, according to Amanda Levete and her London-based studio AL_A. Read more View the full article

Members of the Royal Institute of British Architects, including a past president, have signed a letter calling for UK prime minister Boris Johnson's honourable fellowship to be taken away. Read more

Italian design office Make That Studio has unveiled a jug based on the water-smoothed shapes of riverbed pebbles (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Finnish graduate Mikko Hannula based the design of this faceted metal chair on a 3D scan of a traditional wooden seat called a Windsor chair (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article