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Architect Frank Gehry filled a stage with crumpled paper for a recent production of the Mozart opera Don Giovanni (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

An experimental brick extension, a house with fir-lined reading nooks and an apartment covered in 30,000 wooden blocks are three of the projects vying to be named London's best home improvement of 2020. Read more View the full article

This exhibition at the Judd Foundation in New York pairs together furniture by architect Alvar Aalto and paintings by sculptor John Chamberlain from late American artist Donald Judd's archive. Read more View the full article

BuzzFeed designer Mark Davis has made a freely available font version of US presidential candidate Donald Trump's handwriting, and used it to annotate a Dezeen article. Read more View the full article

Rubber-coated fabric is pinned to the walls and ceiling of this fashion boutique in Zagreb, Croatia. (more…) View the full article

Architect Dong-Ping Wong and fashion designer Virgil Abloh have produced a sketch design for a city during a 15-minute video call live on stage in Cape Town. Read more

The steel beam running through this compact bicycle by British industrial designer Ben Wilson means it can carry heavy loads on its front and rear platforms (+ slideshow + movie). (more…) View the full article

Aberdeenshire Council in Scotland has commissioned local-born textile designer Donna Wilson to create a tartan fabric that celebrates the area's craft heritage. (more...) View the full article

In the next movie filmed for the Stepney Green Design Collection we curated, east London designer Donna Wilson talks about the knitted tree with creatures nestled inside it that she contributed. (more…) View the full article

College graduate John Quick has created a collection of donut-shaped pipes, with ceramic glazes to resemble frosting, for smoking marijuana. Read more

The Sidewalk Toronto smart city was scuppered by a combination of local opposition, excessive secrecy and the prioritisation of profit and technology over sustainability and community, according to architect Ben van Berkel. Read more View the full article

Hong Kong artist and designer Kacey Wong has designed another topical robot-shaped survival suit, this time intended to protect people from radiation leaking from nuclear power stations. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In case the ancient Mayan prediction turns out to be true and the world does end tomorrow, Central Saint Martins fashion graduate Minki Cheng has created a collection of apocalypse apparel for surviving extreme conditions in style (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Door handles created by late Modernist architect Lina Bo Bardi for her home in São Paulo have gone into production 62 years after she designed them. (more...) View the full article

This radical redesign of a door by Austrian artist Klemens Torggler uses a folding and pivoting system to collapse and roll to one side. (more...) View the full article

Technology startup Edison Junior Design Laboratory has created a doorbell that allows users to see who's at their door remotely on their smartphone or tablet. (more...) View the full article

Portuguese artist Didier Faustino has created a mask that clamps over the faces of a kissing couple. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

South Korean designer Jeong Yong has created a round CD-player that’s mounted like a globe on a tilted axis. (more…) View the full article

Paris architecture office Dorell Ghotmeh Tane has created a new home for the Estonian National Museum – a 350-metre-long sloping glass building that rises from the runway of a former Soviet airbase near the city of Tartu (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A light and spacious kitchen, dining and lounge opens onto a latticed balcony in this Tel-Aviv apartment, which has been completely overhauled by Dori interior design studio. Read more View the full article

French designer Dorian Renard has applied traditional glassblowing techniques to a series of plastic furniture and sculptural pieces, in a bid to present the maligned material in a new light. Read more View the full article

A group of dormers are set into the sloping roof of this house in Tokushima by Japanese studio FujiwaraMuro Architects, enabling daylight to reach rooms raised above a protective grassy bank. Read more View the full article

Dezeen movies: earlier this year Dezeen took part in Dornbracht Conversations 3 – a platform for design discussion hosted by Dornbracht and instigated by creative director Mike Meiré. Here are three short movies made by Dezeen showing highlights of the first panel, which discussed design history. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen movies: here are the highlights of the second panel discussion at Dornbracht Conversations 3, featuring creative director Mike Meiré, critic Thomas Wagner, architect and designer Matteo Thun and moderator Marcus Fairs of Dezeen. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Dornbracht has created an installation for this year's London Design Festival featuring four water fountains that move in a wave-like motion (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article