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Want more choice in your chocolate box? Mix and match fillings and toppings with these modular chocolates by French designer Elsa Lambinet. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In a movie filmed by Alice Masters for the Design Museum’s annual Designers in Residence exhibition, Lawrence Lek explains how he created a modular system of plywood pieces that can be bent into objects including a stool and a pavilion. (more…) View the full article

At 5:00pm UK time today VDF goes live to Milan, where Bar Basso owner Maurizio Stocchetto will tell the story of the design world's favourite drinking spot and show how to mix the bar's signature cocktail. Read more View the full article

Engineering studio Close to Bone has announced plans to rebuild and enlarge the cantilevered viewing platform it built in Flanders, Belgium, which was severely damaged in an apparent explosion. Read more View the full article

Art and design studio CTRLZAK have launched a collection of tableware where half of each piece resembles traditional Chinese porcelain and the other side features a European design. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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

Sinuous balconies surround a multipurpose space at the centre of this language school in the town of Ikast, Denmark, by Scandinavian firm C.F. Møller. (more...) View the full article

Architecture studio Baranowitz + Kronenberg has enclosed the interiors of a lab-grown-diamond jewellery store in New York's Soho district with charcoal-coloured steel walls. Read more View the full article

Italian brand Seletti has produced a series of cabinets decorated with eye-popping graphic images taken from the pages of Toiletpaper magazine. Read more

Guests can stay overnight in former patients' rooms at this late 19th-century building constructed as a mental hospital, which New York studio Deborah Berke Partners has partially restored and redesigned as a hotel. Read more View the full article

French architects Agence Search have completed a water-sports centre beside the Seine with a roof of undulating waves. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with Brooklyn firm Aminimal Studio to give away five copies of their sketchbooks printed with a city grid on each page. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Hessian sacks, timber planks and wire mesh hint at the former life of this cafe in Tel Aviv, which Studio Ronen Levin and Eran Chehanowitz converted from an orange-packing plant in the historic port of Jaffa that gives the oranges their name. (more…) View the full article

Our new Pinterest board is full of highlights from 2017's World Architecture Festival and Inside events, which both took place in Berlin this week. It features the shortlist for best architecture photograph of 2017, as well as the World Building of the Year and Interior of the Year award winners. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › View the full article

London architecture studio Orproject has installed a forest of illuminated paper trees that join up to form a continuous canopy at a gallery in New Delhi (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Czech studio Refuel Works took cues from buildings by Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha to design this concrete villa nestled into the jungle in Costa Rica. Read more View the full article

Business news: Ahalife, the design marketplace that acquired e-commerce site Bezar earlier this year, has appointed online fashion retail expert Christopher Colfer to its board to help it become the first global design store on the web. (more…) View the full article

As it's New Year's Eve, we've found 10 of the best bar interiors from Dezeen's Pinterest boards, including a Shanghai punch bar with bamboo-lined booths and a Tokyo venue covered in colourful electrical cables. Read more View the full article

A skin of chestnut shingles covers the facade of this multipurpose building at a school in the French town of Hostens by Dauphins (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

German auto brand Volkswagen's XL1, which it claims is the most fuel-efficient production car ever made, has been named the winner of the Transport category at Designs of the Year 2014. (more...) View the full article

Jamie Fobert has received a CBE for services to architecture, Sadie Morgan has received an OBE for services to design advocacy, and Forensic Architecture's Eyal Weizman has been made a MBE in the New Year Honours list 2020. Read more View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with University College London, Dominique Perrault Architecture and Vitsoe, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Nokia, UN Studio and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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

A simple uniform of Irish blue limestone dresses these four mono-pitched extensions to a rural cottage on the south coast of Ireland by London firm Niall McLaughlin Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This video, exclusive to Dezeen, reveals how Japanese artist Hajime Sorayama created the giant female robot that took centre stage at Dior's Pre-Fall 2019 menswear show in Tokyo. Read more