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VDF products fair: Swiss brand Geberit has launched three new material finishes for its Sigma50 and Sigma21 flush plates to suit a range of bathroom interiors. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: art and architecture critics have been offering their opinions on Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture, 1915-1935, an exhibition presenting the revolutionary imagery of communist Russia at the Royal Academy in London.(more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Leandro Garcia has renovated an apartment for a family's holiday home near the beach in Matinhos, Brazil and filled it with vintage Brazilian furniture. Read more View the full article

Japanese architect Shinya Miura has completed a house in Shizuoka with three courtyards concealed inside. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Chinese architects Neri&Hu have completed this private member’s club in Beijing. (more…) View the full article

Italian design studio Supercake has created a customisable shelving system for growing and displaying plants, which is aimed at people living in rented accommodation (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Stacks of rough stone and concrete form the campus of Yan'an University in China, designed by the Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University to recall the city's famous cave dwellings. Read more View the full article

London designer Marcin Rusak has cut this set of resin works into unusual shapes that are intended as "hybrids of domestic furniture". Read more View the full article

Milan 2012: Konstfack University College student Nick Ross will present this bar with a hood for sharing secrets in crowded places at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan this week. (more…) View the full article

British architect Sevil Peach speaks about how office design is responding to the changing role of work in society in this livestream from Stockholm Furniture Fair. Read more View the full article

A+Awards: next up in our collaboration with Architizer's A+Awards is an apartment building in Austria that is covered in mirrors to reflect the facades of surrounding historic buildings. (more…) View the full article

Mirrors clad the walls and rooftops of this woodland installation by architecture studio STMPJ, so that at first glance visitors might think its timber-lined windows and doorways are floating in midair (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A wooden plank extends through the walls of three rooms in this renovated Tokyo apartment by architects htmn. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2015: a bamboo community centre in Vietnam, a concrete music school in Tokyo and a "vertical village" of apartment blocks in Singapore are among today's category winners at the World Architecture Festival. (more…) View the full article

Slabs of travertine in two different shades create horizontal stripes across the facade of this house in Melbourne by b.e. Architecture (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This holiday home in upstate New York by US firm Gluck+ features an elevated living room that hovers nine metres above the ground (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Australian architect Andrew Maynard has doubled the size of a house in Victoria by adding a row of skinny gabled blocks, intended to make the building look like a small village rather than a monolithic block (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Crinkled fibre-cement panels clad the facade of this theatre extension by Finnish studio ALA Architects in the city of Kuopio, complementing the concrete exterior of the original 1960s building (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A wooden water tower, a nature reserve, and a microlibrary made from recycled ice cream tubs are some of the projects on the shortlist for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2019. Read more

British designer Es Devlin has drawn on the aesthetic of afrofuturism for The Weeknd's stage set at Coachella music festival, which features a massive cracked mask animated by projection-mapped lighting. Read more View the full article

Design studio Z_Lab has included a huge porthole window and sunken bath inside this tiny guesthouse in northern Seoul, which measures under 30 square metres. Read more View the full article

Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes yin-yang airplane seating, a PPE suit for clubbing and news of Italian factories reopening. Read more View the full article

Architect Rizvi Hassan used bamboo to build a community centre for Rohingya women and girls living in a refugee camp, where they can bathe and access counselling. Read more View the full article

This time last year French designer Matali Crasset completed a village of quirky hotel rooms in the Tunisian desert and Italian silversmith Gianfranco Pampaloni shocked both Dezeen readers and Florence residents by hanging a pierced animal’s heart in his shop window for Valentine’s Day. We featured more of our favourite projects from Stockholm Furniture Fair, which included chairs with leg warmers, lamps designed to look like stretched rubber bands and a nightlight inside an hourglass. Meanwhile, French artist Gwen van den Eijnde invented fantastical characters by creating a set of sculptural costumes for himself and photographer Fernando Guerra sent us some photograp…

These new photographs by Hufton + Crow show Herzog & de Meuron's extension to the Messe Basel exhibition centre now that the three new halls are in use (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article