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East London designer Roger Arquer has made a bench out of materials he salvaged from his local hardware shop before it closed down, which he is contributing to the Stepney Green Design Collection curated by Dezeen. (more…) View the full article

News: Finnish design company Marimekko‘s classic floral print will appear on the livery of two Finnair aeroplanes as part of a collaboration that also includes a range of textiles and tableware for use onboard. (more…) View the full article

A hospital lounge for recovering patients is the next extract chosen by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs from our Book of Ideas. (more…) View the full article

This staircase concept by Canadian architect Andrew McConnell is based on a whale's backbone (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Russian studio Arch Group has filled an old building in Moscow with its portable sleeping capsules to create the first Sleepbox hotel. (more...) View the full article

News: architect David Adjaye has been commissioned to design a fashion hub in Hackney as part of efforts to regenerate the area after the 2011 riots. (more...) View the full article

Our movie about Philips' Lumiblade OLED lighting is shortlisted in the Technology category of the Webby Awards! Vote for us to win the People's Voice award. (more...) View the full article

Swedish studio Belatchew Arkitekter wants to transform a Stockholm skyscraper into a wind farm by covering it in thousands of electricity-generating bristles. (more...) View the full article

News: leading Italian furniture brand Driade has been rescued from bankruptcy by a private finance company. (more...) View the full article

Wooden ceiling beams extend beyond the walls of this boxy black house in Japan by Apollo Architects & Associates, creating a canopy above a secluded entrance courtyard (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This coat stand by Stockholm designer Kyuhyung Cho appears to defy gravity, with a hovering metal ring keeping four diagonal sticks from crashing to the ground. (more...) View the full article

Our new Pinterest board features architecture for education, encompassing schools, kindergartens, research centres and universities. See our new schools Pinterest board » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » View the full article

Product news: Austrian design collective Mostlikely has created a set of posters that can be cut up and folded into lampshades shaped like cartoon animal heads. (more...) View the full article

These wooden storage boxes by Japanese designers Torafu Architects stack up to make little trolleys (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This house situated in an old fishing village in Sweden features pale pine floors, high ceilings and a wood-burning stove inside a concrete block (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

We wrap up our review of this year's architecture and design news with December, when our top stories were all about wearable technology including 3D-printed shoes that could repair themselves overnight. (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Lars Müller Publishers to give readers the chance to win one of five copies of a book documenting the last century of design in Switzerland. (more…) View the full article

The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games get underway this Friday with an opening ceremony inside a Fabergé egg-inspired stadium by sports architecture firm Populous. (more...) View the full article

News: British curator Beatrice Galilee has been appointed to a newly created role as curator of architecture and design at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. (more...) View the full article

Architect and photographer Marc Gerritsen designed this house for himself on a Thai island, with an skeleton-like structure that frames sea views (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This cliffside home by Dualchas Architects on the north-west coast of Scotland's Isle of Skye mixes silvery larch wood with traditional Scottish stone. (more...) View the full article

Architecture students Angus Ritchie and Daniel Tyler have designed and built a mirrored lookout point in a Scottish national park that both frames and reflects views of the surrounding lochs and glens (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: architect Jane Duncan has been elected to become the next president of the Royal Institute of British Architects. (more...) View the full article

Architect Jamie Fobert combined pale brick walls with a sunken concrete floor and bronze embellishments to create this south-west London home – one of six projects shortlisted to receive the RIBA Manser Medal for best house of 2014 (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2014: in our second movie for designjunction, Deborah Spencer introduces the stores that took part in this year's West End Design Quarter, including The Conran Shop, Domus and Another Country. (more...) View the full article