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This week we're highlighting 10 popular home interiors from our from Pinterest boards that feature an all-white colour palette. Read more View the full article

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

This rustic residence in Aspen has been renovated by Miami-based Oppenheim Architecture in line with the Japanese principle of wabi-sabi, which acknowledges imperfection as beauty (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Studioba is introducing its range of 3D-printed vessels, entitled Now, as part of VDF's collaboration with Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

Photographer Marc Goodwin visited 11 architecture studios in Beijing to create this photoset, which offers a glimpse inside the workplaces of MAD, Zhang Ke and Vector Architects. Read more View the full article

This small rusty cabin designed by Oslo architects Manthey Kula provides public toilets along one of Norway’s tourist routes. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Product news: British designer Benjamin Hubert has created a chair with a hammock-like back for Italian furniture brand Moroso. (more...) View the full article

Perforated metal screens and plants cover the facade of a factory and office complex in Hanoi, Vietnam, designed by Studio VDGA for electronics manufacturer Star Engineers. Read more

A slender steel awning shades artists from the sun on the rooftop of this creative arts space that French-Brazilian studio Triptyque created for drinks brand Red Bull in a São Paulo warehouse (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Vertical strips of travertine stone cover the facades of these apartment buildings in the Swiss village of Crans-près-Céligny by Group8asia, altering the appearance of the structures when viewed from different angles. (more...) View the full article

Tributes have poured in for architect and critic Michael Sorkin, who has died aged 71 of complications caused by Covid-19. Read more View the full article

The designers of an electric wheelchair share scheme and two exoskeletons are among the five finalists of the Mobility Unlimited Challenge who will be given $500,000 each to develop their prototypes. Read more

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 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…

With less than two weeks left to enter Dezeen Awards 2020, we asked our judges what they hope to see from this year's entrants. Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde says he is looking for something radical. Read 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…)

Musician, Solange, has sent us behind-the-scenes photos of the performance she directed at the Richard Meier-designed Getty Center in Los Angeles. In this interview she tells Dezeen why she's targeted major art museums with her music. Read more View the full article

A waterfall is one of the features of this cylindrical boathouse in Austin by Texan architects Bercy Chen Studio. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: The wooden L01 chair by Studio Eva Natasa was designed in response to studio founder Eva Natasa's "need to sit properly". Read more View the full article

Research and design platform Livable has created a rattan frame that is worn over the head and body to increase awareness of the need for social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic . Read more View the full article

Here are our five most-viewed stories from September of this year. Sleepbox came first - a small hotel room for napping in airports. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Australian studio Made Group has completed a pool house for a Melbourne home with a faceted timber ceiling inspired by origami (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Concluding our review of 2011, here are the five most popular stories from December. Up first are two skyscrapers by MVRDV for Seoul that will be joined at the hip by a pixelated cluster. These renders kicked up a lot of controversy, as reported on Dezeen Wire. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: the dark-rendered exterior walls of this house in Switzerland screen top-floor terraces at either end. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This modular chair collection by Thai design studio Kaoi takes cues from the 1980s Memphis Group, featuring four graphic armrests that can be mixed and matched to offer different aesthetic "personalities". Read more View the full article