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Here are the first photographs of Jean Nouvel's Tour Horizons, an office block in Paris that looks like a pile of three separate buildings (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: British designer Bethan Gray will exhibit a set of monochrome marble tableware in Milan next month. (more...) View the full article

Architecture studio Tredje Natur is redesigning a Copenhagen neighbourhood to better handle the floods expected as climate change leads to fewer but heavier rain storms. (more…) View the full article

Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an architect at Blair + Mui Dowd Architects, which renovated the interior of Yves Saint Laurent's New York office headquarters and showrooms (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Serbian designer Miloš Milivojevic has installed a tree-like mobile phone charger powered by the sun in a park in Belgrade. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2012: Bangkok designers THINKK studio have created a lamp that slots together like a children’s toy. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Guide: design events taking place in March include festivals in Iceland (pictured), Mexico and Costa Rica, plus thirteen more in our update this month. (more...) View the full article

This bathhouse for conservative Jewish women in Mexico City features a stark composition of grainy white marble by local architecture firm Arqhe Studio. Read more

News: condoms made by combining latex with new wonder material graphene would be "thinner, stronger, safer and more pleasurable," according to scientists developing uses for the ultra-thin material. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Dezeen has teamed up with watch brand Eone to launch our own version of the popular Bradley timepiece, which was originally designed for the visually impaired. (more…) View the full article

Skull-shaped vases and horse candleholders feature in a collection of ornate accessories designed for IKEA by Swedish ceramic and glass artist Per B Sundberg. Read more View the full article

Dutch fashion house Viktor & Rolf has continued its "wearable art" theme with an haute-couture collection of sculptural white garments made from Cubist facial features. (more…) View the full article

A Victorian goods elevator and wooden clock tower both feature in the office of London recruitment agency Represent, designed by Alder Brisco in an old warehouse loft. Read more

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

New York designer Kelly Behun has created a show residence near the top of Rafael Viñoly's 432 Park Avenue tower, using a palette aimed to complement the sweeping Manhattan views and make visitors "feel grounded" 92 storeys up. Read more View the full article

The mint-green shutters, white walls and red tiled roof of this house and studio by Gaztelu Jerez Arquitectos reference the 1940s home it replaces near the Spanish city of Burgos. Read more View the full article

Opinion: now we buy everything from Amazon, where does that leave the counterculture? A new attempt to revive the spirit of the Whole Earth Catalog is "about as counter-cultural as a Happy Meal," argues Justin McGuirk. (more...) View the full article

The latest episode of Dezeen's Face to Face podcast features architectural designer John Pawson, who recounts his brief spell as a Buddhist monk, how Calvin Klein changed his life and explains how minimalism helps calm his "untidy mind". Read more View the full article

In our third movie about this year's World Architecture Festival and Inside Festival, architect, designer and Inside Festival jury chair Nigel Coates discusses his breakthrough interiors project Caffè Bongo and explains what he will be looking for when judging the awards. (more...) View the full article

Opinion: the Australian pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale will make a convincing argument for the swimming pool as the Antipodean answer to the piazza – a public space that deserves protection, says Dan Hill. (more…) View the full article

Ceramist Ninon Choplin has designed a tubular, glass pipe influenced by the shape of water slides for smoking accessories brand Tetra. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Eclipse, the latest timepiece from Ziiiro, has a luminous ring in place of hour markers and is now in stock in three colour variations. (more...) View the full article

Fenix I is a steel and concrete apartment block built on top of a warehouse in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, by Dutch practice Mei Architects. Read more View the full article

A collection of 1950s and 1960s products by designers including Dieter Rams, Arne Jacobsen and Dietrich Lubs for German electricals brand Braun are on display at the new Paul Smith store in London (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London-based company Hackney Botanical has created a collection of seven coffee tables that double up as "indoor gardens" and use found, antique sash-windows as table tops. Read more View the full article