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London designer David Amar has created a dressing unit, a daybed and benches with built-in storage, based on floor tiles in a heritage-listed 1920s home in Tel Aviv, Israel (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Indian architect Anupama Kundoo brought a team of Indian craftsman to Italy to construct a replica of a house inside the Arsenale at the Venice Architecture Biennale. (more…) View the full article

New York studio Group Project has designed new rubbish bins for New York City streets that include a "sleek aesthetic, bold recycling messaging, and significant ergonomic improvements." Read 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

Virtual Design Festival has teamed up with Studio Drift to live stream a special performance of Franchise Freedom, the Amsterdam studio's kinetic artwork comprising hundreds of illuminated drones. Tune in from 9pm UK time to watch it live. Read more View the full article

Designers Romain Coppin and Alexis Bondoux, who collaborate as Messgewand, have created a collection of surreal furniture made from collages of found objects. Read more View the full article

American designer Jamie Wolfond has designed a simple glass pipe for smoking accessory brand Tetra, which will debut at fashion store Opening Ceremony. (more…) View the full article

This time five years ago designer Fabio Novembre created an interior filled with winding ribbons of Corian for a shoe shop in Rome and we published images of Tadao Ando’s building for the Issey Miyake Foundation as it neared completion. Australian designer Marc Newson was named Designer of the Year at Design Miami and a fluid tower by Los Angeles firm Morphosis won a competition for a mixed-use development in Paris’s business district. See all our stories from November 2006 » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Chunky concrete boxes form a grid of secluded balconies across the facade of this apartment block in Kyoto by Japanese studio VIDZ Architects. (more…) View the full article

Granby Workshop, the social enterprise set up by Turner Prize-winning architecture collective Assemble, has launched a range of slip cast vessels as part of London Craft Week. Read more

Chicago architect John Ronan has designed a Prairie-style visitor centre to adjoin Frank Lloyd Wright's home and studio in Oak Park, Illinois. Read more

The most significant works of the late couturier Azzedine Alaïa are displayed against backdrops created by designers including the Bouroullec brothers and Marc Newson for an exhibition at London's Design Museum. Read more View the full article

The latest edition of our newsletter Dezeen Weekly has impressive visuals of a theatre in China and Peter Barber's plans to design 365 cities. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly › View the full article

Swivelling wooden walls and a steel I-beam are among the ways that Brazilian studio Nildo José Architects has created partitions in this overhauled São Paulo apartment. Read more View the full article

News: Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut chapel at Ronchamp has been vandalised, prompting calls for urgent security measures to prevent further damage to one of the Modernist architect's finest works. (more...) 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

Swedish architects Claesson Koivisto Rune have completed a house on the coast of a Baltic island, with grey sealant drawing graphic lines across the white concrete facade. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this Dezeen movie Ola Rune of Swedish design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune presents a lamp that they created for lighting company Wästberg at Berlin design fair Qubique 2011. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: as part of the series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Lyndon Neri of Neri & Hu about the Waterhouse at South Bund, a hotel inside a former headquarters of the Japanese army, which won the overall award. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London architecture practice Sam Jacob Studio has created a shelter that combines prehistoric monumental elements with contemporary forms in Shenzhen, China. Read more View the full article

Milan 2013: designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec present a courtyard installation of rotating cork platforms for car brand BMW i (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Mottled grey walls meet black-brick partitions to form the monochromatic interiors of Yakusha Design's self-designed office and showroom in Kiev, Ukraine. Read more

Glass boxes frame a tennis court, gym and pool set into the basement of this Mexico apartment building, which is formed from a series of stacked concrete blocks that cascade down a hill towards a wooded glen (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola has created a bathtub for Italian brand Agape that is supported by a frame of tubular steel. (more…) View the full article

Five years ago this week, after just four months online, Dezeen already had a quarter of a million readers. We published our first story about a sex toy, as well as a globular building that Zaha Hadid had just designed for a square in Budapest. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article