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Macdonald Wright Architects has added a barn clad in black-stained boards to Caring Wood – a Kent country villa that is vying to be named the UK's House of the Year. Read more View the full article

Architect Peter Cook explains Archigram's concept for a temporary city that can be set up overnight in the third instalment of our exclusive video series with the radical architecture group for VDF. Read more View the full article

Korean design studio 11+ has created a portable humidifier with a transparent bottle, minimal monochrome packaging and a red USB charging cable (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

HBRA Architects drew inspiration from historic Chicago residences by Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan and Henry Hobson Richardson while conceiving this contemporary urban residence in the city's Lincoln Park neighbourhood. Read more View the full article

A bird’s skull inspired the hollow heel of these 3D-printed shoes by Dutch fashion designer Marieka Ratsma and American architect Kostika Spaho. (more…) View the full article

Continuing our review of 2019, Sabina Sohail selects the top 10 hotels of the year including a spa in the Sharjah desert and a hotel built within an abandoned quarry in China. Jungle Keva Hotel, Mexico, by Jaque Studio Located in Tulum, the interiors of this hotel features palm leaf-lined ceilings and wooden fixtures and furnishings – taking cues from its verdant surroundings. Jungle Keva is made up of four 50 square-metre guest lodges, which have been dotted throughout a tree-filled plot of land to create an atmosphere of "being in a small village in the Mayan jungle". Read more on the Jungle Keva Hotel › Al Faya Lodge, UAE, by Anarchitect Anarchitect transform…

Burning Man has cancelled its Black Rock City event this year and revealed plans to host a virtual alternative instead due to the "painful reality of Covid-19". Read more View the full article

Dear readers, there are only two voting days left for the Webby Awards. Help us beat our formidable rivals the Guardian, CNN, Vice and Google... Share the glove. Vote Dezeen! (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Theis + Khan (who designed Bateman's Row, pictured above, which was shortlisted for the 2010 RIBA Stirling Prize), SOA Architects, MAD Architects and Tom Dixon, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Foster + Partners, Habitat, Russell Sage Studio and more... (more...) View the full article

Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Viktor Westerdahl has devised a fantasy scenario where the discovery of a new liquid energy cues construction of a remote city in the middle of the Indian Ocean. (more...) View the full article

Hutong Filter is a studio added to a house in one of Beijing's traditional hutongs by architecture office Zai with pixel-style shingles and timber frames connecting to a communal courtyard. Read more

Stockholm 2012: French designer Inga Sempé presents a collection of LED pendant lamps for Swedish lighting brand Wästberg at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham Architecture speak to Dezeen live from Tokyo today as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch the interview here at 2:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

California company Dvele has designed prefabricated, off-grid houses with solar panels that allow people to stop relying on "antiquated power grids". Read more View the full article

This time last year architects and designers around the world were rallying to come up with creative ways to raise money for Japan, following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that had just struck Sendai. Designs included a video appeal, a variety of posters and images for sale and instructions for making origami cranes. Elsewhere, industrial designer Yves Behar unveiled a mobile phone with staggered square buttons, while architects BIG won a competition to design some prefabricated wooden housing in Finland and a sculptural low-energy light bulb was named design of the year by the Design Museum in London. We featured some offices inside pulped paper caves, as we…

Amsterdam collective Fiction Factory has developed a modular building system of cardboard components, which can be assembled in just one day to form houses or offices (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2014: Dutch designer Hella Jongerius will introduce the latest product from her ongoing relationship with design giant Vitra in Milan this week – a chair that comes with a handle and optional wheels for easy relocation. (more...) View the full article

Apollo Architects & Associates has designed the austere metal-clad exterior of this compact home to disguise a central planted courtyard covered by exposed wooden rafters. Read more View the full article

That was week three of VDF! Highlights include a video message from UNStudio's Ben van Berkel and an exclusive free screening of Gary Hustwit's documentary about Dieter Rams plus a live interview with the director. We also teamed up with Friz Hansen to celebrate the centenary of Vico Magistretti's birth. Read more View the full article

Australian cycling accessories manufacturer Knog has designed an alternative to the traditional domed bike bell – a donut-shaped device that wraps around the handlebars (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in this movie, designer and researcher Amy Congdon explains how tissue engineering could be used to grow new biological textiles for the fashion industry. (more…)

Slideshow: overlapping openings in the walls and ceilings of this Tokyo house by Japanese architects Suppose Design Office create dozens of views between rooms. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An apartment shortlisted for Dezeen Awards has been disqualified after an eagle-eyed commenter noticed that the images submitted were computer renders rather than photos. Read more

Dezeen archive: the mobile sauna in Finland we published earlier this week has inspired this archive of projects that feature wood that’s been charred, stained or painted black. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Surfaces of marble and hardwood spread through the rooms of this renovated apartment in Madrid by Spanish architects Schneider Colao (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article