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Music: the face of Australian actor Cate Blanchett decays to a mummy-like state in the music video for Massive Attack's The Spoils track (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Czech furniture brand TON presents upholstered chairs based on the shapes of leaves, created by Italian designer Alexander Gufler, during Milan design week next month. Read more View the full article

Architect John Pawson has collaborated with Swedish lighting company Wästberg to design the fourth non-electric light in its Holocene collection. Read more View the full article

Finnish designers Aleksi Hautamaki and Milla Selkimaki have built a self-sufficient summer house on the five-acre island they own on the edge of Finland's Archipelago National Park. Read more

Standard Architecture will speak to Dezeen in this Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch it here live from 5:00 pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Sugary treats are arranged like ingredients for potions inside this dimly lit patisserie in north Athens. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Preservation and hospitality organisation Wildland has collaborated with Groves-Raines Architects to convert former clergy living-quarters into an intimate guesthouse in the Scottish highlands. Read more

Instagram users are posting photos that show the almost-finished pair of twisted towers that Bjarke Ingels' firm is building in Miami. (more…) View the full article

Austin Maynard Architects has transformed the quality of light inside a narrow Melbourne house, by creating a greenhouse-like space at its centre. Read more View the full article

Yinka Ilori, Lee Broom and Arthur Mamou-Mani were among the architects and designers that joined Dezeen at the Delta Light showroom for this year's Dezeen Awards 2019 shortlist party. 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 …

Canadian architecture firm RDHA has added glazed volumes to an old limestone post office in Cambridge, Ontario as part of its transformation into a community centre with makerspaces. Read more View the full article

In the first major exhibition dedicated to 24/7 culture, Somerset House presents "creative responses to this modern malaise" by more than 50 artists and designers, including Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg. 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

A vibrant turquoise door marks the entrance to this small asphalt-clad house in the Chilean countryside by local studio Mas Fernandez Arquitectos (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week Dezeen has been focussed on shoe design. Scroll on for more highlights in architecture and design from the last seven days plus Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with the organisers of the eVolo Skyscraper Competition to give away five copies of their book, which collates 300 of the best entries from the past six years. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This mirror with blurry edges reflects a rather dreamy image of its surroundings. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Interior design studio Drake/Anderson has used muted tones, earthy materials and clean lines to create tranquil rooms with a strong connection to nature inside this 12-year-old home in the Hudson River Valley. Read more

New York 2016: Swiss architect Mario Botta, whose San Francisco Museum of Modern Art building reopens this week with an extension by Snøhetta, is the latest architect to design a vase for crystal house Lalique. (more…) View the full article

Austere concrete interiors offset the verdant surroundings of this pair of holiday homes in southwest Sri Lanka, completed by Norm Architects in collaboration with Aim Architecture. Read more

Paris design atelier and gallery Pierre Augustin Rose has developed a sculptural pendant light featuring a curvaceous shade rendered in rough plaster. Read more View the full article

Berlin-based art collective Plastique Fantastique has created an open-source, retro-futuristic face shield shaped like a fish bowl to protect wearers against coronavirus. Read more View the full article

Architects TYIN tegnestue of Norway have taken an empty slot in a dense residential area of Bangkok and worked with the local community to built a climbing frame and basketball court. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Es Devlin has been named the winner of this year's Panerai London Design Medal, and to mark the occasion we've rounded up 12 of the set designer's key projects. Read more View the full article