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Studiomama has overhauled this tiny single-storey house in north London with built-in plywood furniture including a fold-out bed, a standing desk and extendable dining benches with pink cushions. Read more View the full article

Artists including Peter Saville and Fergadelic have contributed to the Stick Together sticker collection that is being sold to support the NHS, plus today's other design-related coronavirus news. Read more View the full article

These earrings by Japanese jewellery designer Akiko Oue can be added to and reconfigured since they’re made up of tiny magnetic circles. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Toronto firm StudioAC has used plywood to build custom platform beds and expansive desks for the rooms of this boutique hotel in the city. Read more View the full article

An extensive overhaul of Montreal's Olympic Stadium building by local firm Provencher Roy has opened up the facade of the swooped tower to create offices "bathed in natural light". Read more View the full article

London designer Tom Dixon will launch a range of iridescent stoneware pendant lights at next month’s London Design Festival. (more…) View the full article

Should Notre-Dame's spire be rebuilt as a replica or be given a modern redesign? Dezeen editors Tom Ravenscroft and India Block will be taking over our Twitter account on 15 May at 4pm UK time to answer your questions. Join the discussion using the hashtag #dezeenchat.

Manhattan firm Worrell Yeung has renovated an apartment inside a former factory in Brooklyn's Dumbo neighbourhood, contrasting industrial finishes with the "pure minimal lines" of new fittings. Read more

This 27-storey Barcelona hotel by Ateliers Jean Nouvel is punctured by windows shaped like palm fronds and contains a huge atrium filled with palm trees and tropical vegetation (photos by Roland Halbe). (more...) View the full article

The last of the Ziiiro watches to be featured in the Dezeen Watch Store summer sale is the Mercury watch. Rings of rotating comets display the time, like the Gravity watch. You can now buy Mercury in black and magenta for only £124 (UK and EU) or £103.33 (rest of the world). Buy now » Don’t forget you can get 10% off any product at Dezeen Super Store at 38 Monmouth Street, London WC2 with this flyer. View the full article

Paris 2012: this collection of furniture by Japanese designers Nendo is stable only when objects are placed on it. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The world's biggest e-commerce company, Alibaba, is changing the infrastructure of design, manufacturing and retail around the globe, says Martina Muzi, co-curator of the Design Academy Eindhoven exhibition Geo-Design. Read more

The best escape route from a meeting at the Denmark office of toy brand Lego is down a metal slide. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

US studio Form4 Architecture has designed a Palo Alto office complex that features rectangular structures wrapped in glass and metal, with curved elements that are meant to represent the "highs and lows of exploratory research and development". Read more

Shamil Thakrar, owner and founder of London restaurant Dishoom, laments the disappearance of traditional Irani cafes in Bombay and explains why he's setting them up in London in this movie filmed at Dezeen Live during 100% Design. (more...) View the full article

Bjarke Ingels' firm has created a "retail laboratory" for French department store Galeries Lafayette inside an art-deco bank on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. Read more

British cutlery company Viners has released a collection of kitchen knives with rounded tips in a bid to reduce knife-related incidents. Read more View the full article

Portuguese studio Site Specific Arquitectura has renovated a 1950s school in Lisbon and added a dual-level extension with round openings connecting its outdoor spaces. Read more View the full article

This holiday home in upstate New York by US firm Gluck+ features an elevated living room that hovers nine metres above the ground (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

After an altercation with a tutor, Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Yi-Fei Chen created this visual metaphor to show her personal struggle with speaking her mind. Read more View the full article

Milan 2012: Bangkok designers THINKK studio have created a lamp that slots together like a children’s toy. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: no two items of furniture or pieces of tableware are the same in the dining room that British artist Martin Creed has designed at London restaurant Sketch. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designed in Hackney will showcase world-class architecture and design created in the borough, which is one of the five host boroughs for the London 2012 Olympic Games as well as being home to Dezeen’s offices. Each day from tomorrow until the games this summer, Dezeen will publish buildings, interiors and objects that have been designed in Hackney, creating a unique guide to the borough’s rich and diverse design community. The showcase can be accessed via www.designedinhackney.com. If you’re a Hackney designer or architect and you’d like your work featured, please drop us a line with “Designed in Hackney” in the subject line. The Designed in Hackney logo has been …

Entering Dezeen Awards 2020? Begin your entry before midnight tonight and you can complete it by 9 June and avoid paying the late entry fee. Read more View the full article

Suppose Design Office has reimagined traditional elements of Japanese architecture inside the Tokyo workspace of tech company Slack. Read more