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Italian architect Enrico Scaramellini squeezed this narrow holiday house into the passageway between two farm buildings in the Alpine countryside of northern Italy. (more…) View the full article

Students on the Master of Architecture postgraduate course at the University of Brighton present their work in this digital student show as part of Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the third new watch in our 2012 Dezeen Watch Store collection is the BN0111, a sports watch from the Braun range. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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

A magazine founder, a chef and a bassist are among the diverse team that has torn down an old motel in western Massachusetts to make way for this wood-clad inn, based on "the aesthetic of a classic American motor lodge". Read more View the full article

Light permeates this civic hall designed by Magén Arquitectos in southern Spain through blocks of alabaster in the facade. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: US firm Aranda\Lasch has unveiled plans for an art park for a Chinese-Indonesian philanthropist, proposed on terraced rice paddies in the Bali countryside (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Rooms and surfaces are generated from a complex web of hexagons at this contemporary arts centre in Córdoba, Spain, by Madrid office Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos (photography is by Roland Halbe). (more...) View the full article

News: Milton Glaser, the graphic designer behind the ubiquitous I heart NY logo, has launched a campaign to raise awareness of climate change. (more...) View the full article

Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet is a spiral-shaped building rising up out of the landscape of Vallée de Joux in Switzerland designed by BIG for the watchmaker to house its collection of timepieces. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: modern design meets function in our latest competition, where Dezeen has partnered with Danish furniture brand Fritz Hansen to give away a shelving unit from its Planner collection. Read more

Lighting designer Dean Skira explains how his Polesano street lamp for Delta Light can be used to light a multitude of different urban settings, in this movie Dezeen filmed for the Belgian lighting brand. Read more View the full article

Architect Oscar Gutiérrez used bright yellow paintwork to pick out often-overlooked details on the clean white facade of this courtyard house in Mexico. (more…) View the full article

Next up we take a look at the favourite five stories from October. Topping the list here is Passing Cloud, proposing an enormous inflatable cloud as a form of transport. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Troubled Scandinavian design retailer Skandium has been acquired by a Danish duo, who have reopened the e-commerce site and plan to open a new showroom on London's Brick Lane next month. Read more

Dezeen announces Virtual Design Festival, the world's first online design festival, taking place from Wednesday 15 April onwards. Read more View the full article

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

Architect Peter Zumthor designed this memorial on an island in Norway to commemorate suspected witches who were burned at the stake there in the seventeenth century (photographs by Andrew Meredith). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This mini version of Apple's Cupertino campus is made entirely of Lego, and was modelled on drone footage taken during construction. Read more View the full article

In this exclusive video from BIG, partner Jakob Lange discusses how its plans for a Hyperloop high-speed transportation system between Abu Dhabi and Dubai will transform how people live. Read more View the full article

Designer Yinka Ilori shares what he's been doing to keep busy during the coronavirus lockdown in this video message recorded for Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

A steel screen zigzags in front of a shampoo area at this dimly lit beauty salon in Gifu, Japan, by architect Hiroyuki Miyake. (more…) View the full article

The stairwell ascending through the centre of this Tokyo house is illuminated from a skylight and glows through translucent glass partitions. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spring is here, and with it a slew of architecture and design events around the world. Check out the highlights for April, May and June in our comprehensive guide to 2019 events include the big Milan design week next week, Copenhagen Architecture Festival, Design Miami/Basel plus design weeks in Bucharest and San Francisco. More ›

Comments update: architect Kunlé Adeyemi's award-winning Makoko Floating School collapsed last week, sparking a debate about the project's credentials and the media's previously flattering coverage of its design. But does the floating-school concept still have a future? (more…) View the full article