News Feed

As part of VDF x Sight Unseen, our second roundup of projects from this year's Offsite Online: Selects exhibition features furniture, homeware and lighting that places the material front and centre. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the latest watch from American brand Projects takes its unusual dial design from a drawing produced in the 1920s by influential Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky. (more…) View the full article

In the freezing winter months this wooden sauna on a Finnish island can be towed like a sledge over a frozen lake to find the right spot for a plunge pool. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Charred larch slats now cover the exterior of this Modernist house in north London, thanks to a "macabre" upgrade intended by architecture studio Denizen Works to reference the nearby Highgate Cemetery (+ slideshow) (more…) View the full article

A trio of Danish architects has won a competition to design Denmark's first new-build architecture school, a sprawling campus on the outskirts of Aarhus. Read more View the full article

Installations formed by blending coloured lights, and a lamp based on jellyfish were produced by Dutch designer Dennis Parren for the Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne 2015 (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Stripy glass screens obscure views between rooms at this dental clinic in Torres Vedras, Portugal, by MMVArquitecto (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Treatment rooms sit within a translucent house-shaped enclosure at this dental clinic in Kobe, Japan, by Tato Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A house-shaped white box seems to float above the dark grey reception of this dental clinic in Porto by Portugese architect Paulo Merlini (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Spanish architects Estudio Hago have completed a dental surgery with walls of rounded wooden panels and white-tinted glass. (more…) View the full article

Dutch studio Shift has converted a suburban house in the south of the Netherlands and turned it into a dental surgery with a new zinc-clad wing (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Denton Corker Marshall has built the new Australian Embassy in Jakarta, adding an assortment of metals mined in Australia and acoustic panels decorated with national landmarks (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

With the 2015 Venice Art Biennale kicking off next month, architecture firm Denton Corker Marshall has unveiled the new pavilion Australia will now use for its exhibitions – an austere black box looming over a canal (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Breezeblocks form walls in this disaster relief shelter near Guatemala City by DEOC Arquitectos, which was proposed after the deadly eruption of Volcan de Fuego in 2018. Read more View the full article

Rio 2016: a 2.5 million-square-metre area west of Rio de Janeiro has been transformed by Brazilian firm Vigliecca & Associados to become one of two major locations during the city's Olympic and Paralympic games (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

An undulating golden plane blankets the new Islamic art galleries at the Musée du Louvre in Paris, which opened to the public this weekend (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

German studio Sieger Design present this flat square tap for design brand Dornbracht at ISH 2011 in Frankfurt, which opens tomorrow. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

UK charity Art Fund's crowdfunding campaign to save artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman's cottage in Dungeness from being sold to a private owner has been successful. Read more View the full article

Sue Architekten has converted a 1930s outhouse near Vienna into a writing studio, guest room and playhouse, accessed via a trapdoor (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

US studio Desai Chia Architecture has overhauled a country home in Long Island, New York, and created an extension that is meant to be an "expressive counterpoint" to the main dwelling. Read more View the full article

American studio Desai Chia Architecture wanted to capture the "intellectually playful aspects" of Quartz in the design of the digital media outlet's new headquarters in Manhattan. Read more View the full article

New York firm Desai Chia Architects has built a home on Lake Michigan with blackened timber walls and a roof that extends out to shelter an outdoor seating area. Read more View the full article

The remains of a former miner's residence in the Arizona desert provided the foundations for this tiny steel and concrete retreat by designer David Frazee (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A team of scientists in the UK have developed a low-carbon construction material using desert sand that could take pressure off increasingly scarce natural resources. Read more View the full article

Qubique 2011: Tel Aviv designer Nir Meiri uses desert sand to create these tactile moulded lights. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article