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Rio 2016: American artist Anthony Howe has designed a large kinetic sculpture to heighten the impact of the modest-sized cauldron during the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic games (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Milan's Dimore Gallery has reproduced seven pieces of furniture by artist Gabriella Crespi and installed them among piles of sand for an exhibition called Visioni. Read more

Green-coloured subway tiles are paired with lemon-yellow shelving inside skincare brand Aesop's second Milan branch, recently completed by locally based Dimorestudio (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Barber and Osgerby's creative consultancy Map has collaborated with a London startup to create a minimal new smart doorbell called Ding. Read more View the full article

German design studio Ding3000 has created a cast-iron candle holder for Danish brand QDO that holds six coasters within its base. (more…) View the full article

Mork-Ulnes Architects has completed a barn-inspired artist studio in northern California, which includes a white volume that looks like it is growing out of a reclaimed timber-clad building. (more…) View the full article

Chimney-shaped skylights spotlight dinosaur eggs inside this museum with craggily textured concrete walls at China's Qinglong Mountain Geopark. Read more View the full article

Renzo Piano has become the latest high-profile architect to add a building to the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, by completing a tiny wooden cabin with room for just a single inhabitant. (more...) View the full article

Australian furniture producer DesignByThem has teamed up with fashion designer Dion Lee to develop a collection comprising a lounge chair and bench made by slashing and weaving leather. Read more

This exhibition designed by Gitta Gschwendtner for London’s Somerset House displayed fashion drawings on gauze-covered boxes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Pale dresses and jumpsuits were presented against a backdrop of orchid-covered walls at fashion house Dior's haute couture show in Paris (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2011: visitors lower objects into pits of molten wax then hang them from the ceiling to solidify in this installation created by students of the Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design in Geneva at workshops with designer Matali Crasset and curator Alexandra Midal. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Music: director Jonathan Irwin created a carefully lit model cityscape made of paper that he then set on fire for the finale of Aqualung's Eggshells music video (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Dutch designer Dirk Vander Kooij made these vessels from scraps of plastic, melted down and built up in layers by a robotic arm. (more...) View the full article

London restaurant Dirty Bones took inspiration from 1970s Brooklyn for its new space in Soho, which features velvet seating, a wood-panelled bar and a toilet hidden behind a faux bookshelf. Read more View the full article

These racy figurines by ceramicist Rebecca Wilson are cast from pieces of fruit. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This extension to a day-care centre for disabled adults in the Swiss town of Stans has been kitted out with muted red awnings and spiralling pastel-tinged walkways. Read more View the full article

Design collective Disarming Design from Palestine is in the process of setting up a design school in the West Bank offering residencies for Palestinian designers and the chance for international students to learn about craft from the region. Read more

Italian designers Paolo Ulian and Moreno Ratti have created a collection of prototype products made from unwanted marble tiles. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2012: new Italian brand Discipline launch their inaugural collection in Milan this week. (more…) View the full article

The latest collection from Italian design brand Discipline includes chopping boards that look like pebbles and a desk tidy object that resembles an apple. (more...) View the full article

Serpentine Gallery has unveiled the design of this year's Serpentine Pavilion. Use our Pinterest board to explore images of all the projects from the past 20 years. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest or visit our updated board to see more. Read more View the full article

Inspired by a brutalist soap, we curated a Pinterest board of the best-designed grooming products, including 13 reinterpretations of the shaving brush and an aluminium straight razor aimed at millennials. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › View the full article

We’ve updated our saunas Pinterest board with images from new projects, including a subterranean spa in Williamsburg and a pine sauna complex in Finland. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest or visit our updated board to see more. Read more View the full article

World Heritage Corb: many of French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier's most important works feature on our latest Pinterest board, which we've created to mark the end of our series exploring the 17 of his buildings recently added to UNESCO's World Heritage List. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more Le Corbusier in our archive View the full article