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Readers have been discussing “the abundance of introverted architecture that is coming out of Japan” recently, so here’s another Japanese house that blocks all views to and from the street but still draws light and air inside. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Temporium: today is your last chance to visit our Christmas shop The Temporium – we close at 3pm – and the final window in our Advent calendar features ceramics and glass by Londoner Shan Valla. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2012: Japanese designer Yota Kakuda has created this collection of small wooden storage and display units for French brand Ligne Roset. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the inaugural edition of Design Days Dubai will take place from 18 to 21 March 2012. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Clerkenwell Design Week 2012: British design duo BarberOsgerby talk about designing the London 2012 Olympic Torch in this movie we filmed last week at the Vitra showroom during Clerkenwell Design Week. (more…) View the full article

The timber-framed rooms of this house in Osaka prefacture by Japanese architects Suga Atelier are on show to the street though a transparent facade. (more…) View the full article

Zaha Hadid has completed a streamlined concrete and glass building for three government departments in Montpellier, France (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

More bamboo: this floating tea house in Yangzhou, by Chinese architects HWCD Associates, features brick rooms linked by louvred bamboo corridors and brises soleil. (more…) View the full article

Dutch architects Shift ripped out the walls of this central Rotterdam townhouse and replaced them with a three-storey bookshelf. (more…) View the full article

A ball of cork provides the stopper for this glass container by Czech designer Martin Jakobsen. (more…) View the full article

In the next movie we filmed during Dezeen Live at 100% Design, designer Asif Khan explains how soap bubbles, rubbish bins and a neighbour’s flower bed have all provided inspiration for his work. (more…) View the full article

OMA's research studio AMO installed a domestic interior filled with angular furniture and make-believe windows as the setting to present Prada's Autumn Winter 2013 collection during Milan Men's Fashion Week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of a new book containing over 800 drawings by the Bouroullec brothers. (more...) View the full article

Product news: tables in this collection by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka have tops that appear to balance precariously on angled stands (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese studio SANAA has completed a circular production hall with rippled acrylic walls for furniture brand Vitra, making it the latest addition to the firm's campus of buildings by famous architects in Weil am Rhein, Germany (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Hundreds of colourful bristles emanate from headdresses in Maiko Takeda's millinery collection, presented at the Royal College of Art fashion show earlier this week. (more...) View the full article

Craters in these tables by Canadian studio +tongtong hold different parts of a meal, meaning you can eat your dinner directly off the tabletop (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Brooklyn studio SO-IL has stretched a thin layer of white film over the facade of the Storefront gallery in New York, giving the building a vacuum-packed appearance (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This house in Alabama folds open to provide seating for an open-air performance space (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2013: designers Laetitia de Allegri and Eva Feldkamp have created a collection of furniture and products including a magazine holder that resembles a toast rack (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The pieces in this chess set by American designer Stefan Gougherty are formed from coloured tubes drilled into see-through acrylic blocks (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: a tower under construction in Miami by Porsche Design and Dezer Development is to feature car elevators, allowing some of the world's wealthiest people to park right next to their living rooms (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This baguette shop in Warsaw, Poland, by architects MFRMGR is modelled on market booths and stalls set up in the city during the 1990s (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: new technologies mean the design process is becoming akin to "creating a Hollywood film," says designer Francis Bitonti, who created a seamless 3D-printed dress for burlesque dancer Dita von Teese. (more...) View the full article

These shoes are 3D-printed using flexible, durable filament so they can be folded up and stuffed into a pocket or bag (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article