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In response to increasing electrical waste, design graduate Kasey Hou has developed a flat-pack toaster that can be easily repaired if it breaks down. Read more View the full article

Product news: Bangkok-based design firm THINKK Studio has launched a collection that includes hanging lamps made from concrete and wood, concrete vases with wire frames and a little truck to hold your pens and paper clips. (more…) View the full article

China's days as a major producer of fake designer goods are numbered, according to Design Shanghai's creative director Ross Urwin. (more…)

American firm Bates Masi + Architects took cues from a historic lifeguard station while designing this cedar-clad dwelling on Long Island, New York. Read more View the full article

News that the world’s tallest building is to be constructed in just 90 days leads the latest issue of our weekly newsletter, which also features a 3D photo booth, an indoor cloud and all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 129 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Dezeen archive: recently we’ve featured a huge wearable duvet for two and a squishy pillow helmet that’s perfect power naps (bottom right), so we decided to bring together all our stories about snoozing. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » View the full article

In this movie filmed at our Designed in Hackney Day, Chris Hatherill from Hackney company Super/Collider speaks about the links between science and design and how his team handcrafted a particle accelerator. (more…) View the full article

A grid of 24 red brick arches frames the interior of this Vietnam coffee shop by Wangstudio, which sits between a garden and a reflective pool of water (+ slideshow). (more…)

Movie: Rem Koolhaas was at the ICA in London this morning to launch OMA’s design for the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow. He gave Dezeen a quick introduction to the new gallery, which will be built in Gorky Park in the Russian capital for gallerist Dasha Zukhova. (more…) View the full article

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]

The London 2012 Paralympics begin tonight and over the coming days we’ll be featuring a selection of cutting-edge sportswear designed for the competing athletes, starting with the Nike Spike Pad as worn by “Blade Runner” Oscar Pistorius. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: architect Alex de Rijke of dRMM talks to Dezeen about his practice's Escher-inspired installation of staircases in this movie filmed outside Tate Modern in London. (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

This Vienna apartment, renovated by Slovenian architects Kombinat, features a hybrid living space with room for both cooking and working. Read more View the full article

This plastic maternity vest by design graduate Alice Kim allows people to carry young plants like babies (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Architects Foster + Partners and engineers Halcrow have unveiled proposals for an airport and transport hub on the Thames estuary, 55 kilometres from central London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Room dividers composed of hollow terracotta bricks frame the products within this home decor showroom in the northwestern Indian city of Amritsar. Read more View the full article

From a bed cocooned in an ice vortex to a colourful suite in America's first gay boutique hotel, this week we're counting down Dezeen's most-pinned hotel room interiors from all around the world (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Ramsey Jones Architects has completed a vacation home in Wisconsin that consists of a slender rectangular bar with a square opening that frames views of one of the USA's Great Lakes (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Lindsey Adelman, Apparatus and Rich Brilliant Willing are among 40 design studios and makers in New York City that have put their work in an online charity auction, where all proceeds will support the city's battle during the coronavirus crisis. Read more View the full article

Eindhoven designer Paul Heijnen presented an articulated lamp like a huge wooden insect at Rossana Orlandi's Bagatti Valsecchi 2.0 exhibition in Milan (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Movie: Designer Konstantin Grcic tells Dezeen that American furniture company Emeco had to industrialise its production methods to produce his new Parrish chair in this video interview filmed in Milan. (more...) View the full article

This time last year an orchestral academy designed by Frank Gehry opened in Florida, while architects Scott Brownrigg completed the London offices for internet giant Google. Meanwhile, Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am was appointed director of creative innovation at technology company Intel, OMA published a report claiming the world could be free from fossil fuels by 2050 and a restaurant designed by Tom Dixon opened at London’s Royal Academy of Arts. Dezeen readers debated whether designs for a power plant that will blow smoke rings and double up as a ski slope were bonkers or brilliant, but questioned the sustainable credentials of a chair carved from a tree trun…

Dezeen Screen: in this movie we filmed at Berlin design fair Qubique 2011, Mangus Wästberg of Swedish lighting company Wästberg presents lamps designed by Studioilse, James Irvine and David Chipperfield. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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