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The Consumer Electronics Show has returned the Innovations award it rescinded from female-led sex toy company Lora DiCarlo earlier this year, following accusations of gender bias in the tech industry. Read more

Opinion: in the first of his bi-weekly columns for our new Opinion section, Sam Jacob describes the way that sites like Dezeen have unleashed a "design tsunami" and discusses how "the endless spewing of design imagery" is affecting design culture. (more...) View the full article

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, co-founders of Grafton Architects, are the first all-woman pair to be awarded the 2020 RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture. Read more

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

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

The students and tutors of a design and build workshop in Istanbul have constructed a seaside temple from oriented strand board. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: design brand Fritz Hansen has created a walnut version of the classic Lily chair by Danish architect and designer Arne Jacobsen to celebrate the product's 50th anniversary. Read more View the full article

The Australian Institute of Architects has named 46 winners in its annual awards, ranging from a brightly coloured hospital to a house split up into a "village" of blocks and a new home for the Melbourne School of Design (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Luxury lifestyle brand Equinox has partnered with workspace provider Industrious to create a flexible co-working space in New York's Hudson Yards. Read more View the full article

Graduate shows 2016: a toaster that sneezes out bread crumbs and a vacuum cleaner that poos when it's full are among a range of "cute" products created by Royal College of Art graduate Hyerim Shin (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

We've reached the final week of the year and and to get into the holiday spirit we've been publishing festive projects that include computer equipment and games consoles that sing Christmas carols and a series of geometric street lights in Berlin (pictured). (more...) View the full article

Could this modern concrete and glass house have been the catalyst for the end of a marriage? Yes, according to a black and white movie made by Studio MK27, the architects behind the project (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

British brand Another Country has commissioned designer Ian McIntyre to create a series of pewter jugs and bowls to complement his original tableware collection for the label. (more…) View the full article

Swathes of lace and satin textiles were tied into stuffed bundles and bows to create Japanese fashion house Comme des Garçons' Autumn Winter 2015 collection shown at Paris Fashion Week. (more…)

Design studio Miniwiz, Taiwan's government and Fu Jen Catholic University Hospital have created a prototype for a modular ward using recycled aluminium panels, which would allow hospitals to quickly be adapted to fight coronavirus. Read more View the full article

Huge window bays project from the fat cylindrical volume of this apartment block in Tilburg, the Netherlands, by Dutch architects Bedaux de Brouwer. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A mobile theatre will visit Clerkenwell Design Week in London this May, inspired by a miniature concert hall above a coal-shed that used to be in the area in the seventeenth century. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

WeWork has unveiled images of its first foray into the co-living trend – a residential block with shared living spaces in New York's financial district, run by new sister company WeLive (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

German firm Archequipe has renovated a townhouse in Cologne's Deutz district with a gabled facade that steps back and forth to respect the boundaries of a neighbouring residence. (more...) View the full article

Slideshow: a Ferrari automotive museum designed by the late Czech architect and Future Systems founder Jan Kaplický has opened in Modena, Italy. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Global firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill used a restrained palette of concrete, steel and glass to create a new home for a photography museum in a once-derelict area of Manhattan (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Foster + Partners have won a competition to design a high-speed rail station for the city of Ourense in northwest Spain. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this third of four interviews with some of the designers who’ll be part of Dezeen Watch Store and friends at the Interiors UK exhibition in Birmingham from 22 January, Swedish designer Johan Lidehäll presents his Bookman bicycles lights. Watch the movie » Dezeen Watch Store and friends will be at stand G31 in the Design Village at Interiors UK, which takes place at the NEC Centre in Birmingham from 22-25 January featuring furniture, lighting, flooring, soft furnishings and accessories from over 600 exhibitors. Register to attend here. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full art…

Interior design will evolve, innovate, adapt and improve in 2020, says Michelle Ogundehin. Her trend report includes provocative collaborations, cork, Ukrainian design and a rejection of digital technology. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Hong Kong studio Daydreamers Design has reinterpreted a traditional Chinese burning tower as a spiralling pavilion made from recycled plastic around a geometric flame sculpture. Read more View the full article