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Austrian designer Clemens Auer has created a pair of tweezers made from a single loop of metal. (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen have teamed up with Swiss brand Punkt. to offer readers the chance to win a limited edition version of their clock by London designer Jasper Morrison, created to raise funds for recovery from the natural disasters in Japan earlier this year. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The architects behind a campaign to build a floating swimming pool on the River Thames have now revealed plans to resurrect a southeast London lido that was filled in nearly 30 years ago. (more…) View the full article

Designer Dominic Wilcox describes why he chose to hang a row of bird cages above a street in London in the next movie we filmed about the Seven Designers for Seven Dials aerial installations curated by Dezeen. (more...) View the full article

Furniture design studio ATRA has created a modular sofa system upholstered with a hemp-based fabric. Read more View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Madrid firm Office for Strategic Spaces has used low-budget materials to transform an old industrial building in the Spanish capital into a multi-level workspace for creative startup businesses (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Science, aeronautics and NASA inspired the Very Polite Agency's packaging design for ALT, a liquid cannabis product for people who want a mind-expanding rather than purely medicinal high. Read more View the full article

Italian studio LDA.iMdA Architects converted this former warehouse in northern Italy into a design showroom and then concealed it behind gauzy black curtains. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Canadian firm Ancerl Studio has teamed stark white-painted brickwork walls, weathered wooden beams and black steel windows in this renovated house in Toronto. Read more View the full article

Manhattan firm Worrell Yeung has renovated an apartment inside a former factory in Brooklyn's Dumbo neighbourhood, contrasting industrial finishes with the "pure minimal lines" of new fittings. Read more

Architect Lalo Carrillo worked with firms Colombo and Serboli Architecture and SY Arquitectos to design this guesthouse for his family in Córdoba, Argentina. Read more View the full article

Triangle-shaped towers fitted with smart technology form the centre of Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects competition-winning masterplan for Helsinki. Read more View the full article

Aviation consultancy Factorydesign has envisioned how social distancing could be achieved on planes after the peak of the coronavirus pandemic with its Isolation screen divider kit. Read more View the full article

This time five years ago the concrete formwork of Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI Museum of XXI Century Arts was only just beginning to take shape in Rome. The building finally completed in 2009 and went on to win the Stirling Prize the following year. Meanwhile, the Gagosian Gallery in New York revealed images of a new marble table being shown later that month designed by Australian-born designer Marc Newson, who was this year awarded a CBE for services to design in the UK and worldwide. We featured a globe lampshade that slots around a light bulb and a set of bookshelves that fit into any alcove, while our readers were all preoccupied with trying to get their hands on a lycra ca…

Slideshow: Lisbon architects ARX Portugal and Stefano Riva have completed a top-heavy house in the village of Aldeia de Juso with a concrete upper storey settled over the glazed walls below. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

ABIR Architects used pebbles found on the beach to create the layered facade of this house in the English seaside town of Shoreham – which featured in last night's episode of UK television show Homes By The Sea. (more…) View the full article

Following the announcement that writer Alain de Botton plans to build a series of temples for atheists in the UK, here are some images of the first structure planned for the City of London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This Canadian house by Patkau Architects is anchored to a rock by steel rods so that it treads lightly on the ground and cantilevers above the Pacific Ocean. (more...) View the full article

Gucci's creative director Alessandro Michele has announced that the Italian brand will be disregarding the fashion calendar's "stale" deadlines, holding shows just twice a year instead to reduce waste. Read more View the full article

In our latest competition, we've teamed up with The Distillery hotel in London to offer readers the chance to win a two-night stay and a meal for two, as well as the chance to make their own gin. Read more

In our latest competition, we've teamed up with Lindley Lindenberg to offer readers the chance to win a three-night stay at the newly opened hotel in Frankfurt. Read more

British studio United Visual Artists created an "electrical storm" inside Sou Fujimoto's cloud-like Serpentine Gallery Pavilion using LED lights during a performance at the temporary structure last month (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

A trio of buildings with wood and stone-clad walls form this dwelling in Montana by the architecture studio CTA, which was designed to embrace its setting in a verdant valley ringed by trees and mountains. Read more

News: Barcelona officials are outraged over plans to construct a 300-metre "space hotel" - complete with a zero-gravity spa and vertical wind tunnel - on an artificial island off the coast of the city. (more...) View the full article

The bucolic terrain of Canada's Fogo Island and China's landscaped gardens provided the cues for the textural flourishes that Toronto studio Hi Thanks Bye has included in this simple steel furniture collection. Read more View the full article