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This single-storey house in the Australian countryside was designed by architect Rob Kennon with a sheltered veranda around the outside and a courtyard at its centre (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

In this movie, Dezeen Awards jury chair Michel Rojkind explains why Matthew Mazzotta's modest, retractable The Storefront Theater beat projects by leading international firms to be crowned Architecture Project of the Year 2018. Read more

Jay Gort from Hackney studio Gort Scott Architects argues that the beleaguered British high street is actually a thriving location of "collision and conflict" in this talk filmed by Dezeen at our Designed in Hackney Day last year. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the Crea collection by Spanish lighting brand Vibia is made up of pendant, ceiling and wall lights that can be customised by designers to suit different spaces. Read more View the full article

Quebec studio Atelier Pierre Thibault's portfolio is filled with remote getaways around Canada. Here are five houses the firm has designed that make the most of their wooded settings. Read more

Disney's research company is developing a method for printing electrostatic loudspeakers in any shape – with trials including a rubber duck and a spiral. (more...) View the full article

German designer Valentin Loellmann used hazel branches to create the knobbly legs of these benches, tables and stools. (more…) View the full article

Graphic designer Vaughan Oliver, who created album covers for bands the Pixies, Cocteau Twins and The Breeders, has passed away at age 62. Read more View the full article

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

Berlin-based designers Martin Binder and Claudio Rimmele have designed a concept for an "infection-free" playground where children could play together safely during the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

Slate-grey bricks applied in zigzagging rows give the walls of this London house extension a faceted texture that contrasts the smooth, pale yellow brickwork of the original property (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

See the latest from our new and improved recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Marks Barfield Architects, Dattner Architects, and David Chipperfield, who won the prestigious commission for the new Nobel Center in Sweden (pictured). This is also the last chance to apply for roles with The Science Museum, Howe, and Acme. (more…) View the full article

Wonder Architects have used pale green ceramic tiles to clad a house extension in Yangqing, China, that mirrors the form of its traditional neighbours. Read more View the full article

Newly positioned windows reveal the overhauled interior of a Rotterdam townhouse that was formerly an abandoned apartment block. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

IKEA's research lab Space10 has developed a series of open-source bee homes that anyone can design themselves for free before having it made using a CNC machine. 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…

A fabric cloak stretched across the glass facade of this golf ball-shaped office and showroom shades it from direct sunlight. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American architects Richard Meier & Partners have unveiled designs for a 34-storey tower in Mexico City. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Product news: an extra surface swings out from underneath this coffee table by Italian designer Roberto Paoli (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Dezeen Watch Store, Herman Miller and Fredrikson Stallard, plus there’s only one more week to apply for roles with Luchford APM, Sruli Recht, AECOM and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Perimeter skylights throw light across a grid of exposed wooden ceiling beams inside our second house this week from Japanese studio mA-style Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

In the next movie we filmed at our Designed in Hackney Day, Gurmeet Sian of Office Sian explains how an emphasis on building relationships with his clients makes him more like a midwife than an architect. (more...) View the full article

Designer Adam Nathaniel Furman will speak to Dezeen in a live Screentime conversation sponsored by Philips TV & Sound as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch it here live at 2:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Traditional embroidery patterns combine with digital stitching technology in this embroidered wallpaper by London-based studio Custhom. (more...) View the full article

New York 2014: Dezeen style editor Dan Howarth picks his top five designers and studios not to miss at New York's Sight Unseen Offsite exhibition, which opens today. (more...) View the full article