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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

Red brick archways define the lower and topmost levels of Cadence, a housing development designed by Alison Brooks Architects next to Coal Drops Yard at King's Cross, London. Read more View the full article

Proctor & Shaw has extended the south London home of a retired teacher, adding a timber-lined snug that can be used for reading or birdwatching. Read more

Architect Zaha Hadid's gallery space in London is to host a show of work by fashion designer Elke Walter, who creates the statement pieces worn by the architect. (more...) View the full article

Glass walls and perforated metal screens help to blur the boundaries between inside and outside for this house in Beijing by architecture studio TAOA. Read more View the full article

Today is Dezeen's eighth birthday! From chocolate penises to houses with slides instead of stairs, we've pretty much written about everything architecture and design related over the years. To celebrate, we're looking back at the most popular story from each year of our existence. (more...) View the full article

Interior design studio MoreySmith has created co-working spaces with a "contemporary industrial" aesthetic in an old factory building in Paris. Read more View the full article

Paper artist Marc Hagan-Guirey has recreated ten modernist buildings from folded and cut paper for his book Le Corbusier Paper Models: 10 Kirigami Buildings to Cut and Fold. Read more View the full article

This Quebec holiday home by Canadian architecture studio Naturehumaine comprises two blackened wood cabins, which are intended to look like they are "sliding over the cliff" below. Read more View the full article

The latest edition of Dezeen Weekly includes the winners of this year's RIBA awards and our round-up of 10 Vietnamese houses. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly ›

This cabin made from scaffolding is one of 22 temporary hotel rooms that popped up around Mannheim, Germany, as part of the Hotel Shabby Shabby event for the city's Theater der Welt festival (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

British architect David Chipperfield has won a competition to rebuild the USA headquarters for luxury watch brand Rolex in New York, with a proposal for a stacked, jagged glass tower. Read more

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 …

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

Berlin designer Yoske Nishiumi has created new canopy patterns for the asymmetric Senz umbrella, which keeps its shape in gale-force winds. (more...) View the full article

A zigzag elevated walkway and a pavilion wrapped in bamboo by West-Line Studio in the province of Guizhou, China, has been revealed in new photos. Read more

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers Arvinius + Orfeus to give readers the chance to win five monographs of work by Icelandic architect Pálmar Kristmundsson. (more...) View the full article

American artist and designer Daniel Arsham has built a blue zen garden complete with a Japanese tea house as one of a trio of installations at Atlanta's High Museum of Art. Read more View the full article

Benjamin Hubert, Alison Brooks and dRMM are among the architects and designers that will create installations for this year's London Design Festival, which is also set to include a crazy golf course part-designed by the late Zaha Hadid (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Autonomous vehicle startup Cruise has revealed its first self-driving, electric car designed for shared ownership, which has no steering wheel or pedals. Read more View the full article

A frameless sheet of glass undulates around this barrel-vaulted conservatory in west London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Chinese furniture designer Mario Tsai has created a pair of tables with frames that allow them to be easily picked up and moved with one hand (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Michael Anastassiades worked with Gebrüder Thonet Vienna to develop this doodle-like lounge chair using the Austrian company's traditional material palette of steam-bent wood and woven cane. Read more

Cologne 2012: these steel pendant lamps with a bulb in each end are on show as part of [D3] Talents at imm cologne, which opens today in Germany. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs gives a tour of our Christmas shop The Temporium, which is open at 65 Monmouth Street, Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9DG until 3pm tomorrow! Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article