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London Design Festival: designer-makers East London Furniture have temporarily fitted out the interior of London bar DreamBags-JaguarShoes using nothing but scrap materials found on the local streets. (more…) View the full article

Movie: architect David Mikhail explains how he transformed a typical 19th-century London house into a "great family home" with all of its "original dignity" in this movie produced by Living Projects. (more…) View the full article

London studio David Mikhail Architects has renovated a nineteenth-century house in London and added a glazed kitchen and dining room at the rear (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architect Johan Berglund of London studio 42 Architects has designed a restaurant that could be embedded in the side of a hill in Östersund, Sweden. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Clothes printed with artist Richard Woods' woodgrain graphics featured in this week's Spring Summer 2014 show by London fashion studio Sibling. (more...) View the full article

Although it may look a canteen somewhere in south-east Asia, this informal restaurant is actually located in central London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: Madrid studio Exit Architects designed this concrete sculpture museum behind the retained facade of an old house in southern Spain. (more…) View the full article

Eastwest Architecture has sunken a compact gym into the garden of an east London home, featuring bright birch-lined interiors and a mirror wall that creates the illusion of a larger space. Read more View the full article

A 1920s lodge for outdoorsmen in New York's Catskill Mountains has been transformed into a boutique Scandinavian-influenced hotel and bar, which also offers tiny triangular cabins for guests. Read more

UK budget airline EasyJet has paired with US firm Wright Electric to develop a battery-powered aircraft fleet that can be used for its short haul flights. Read more View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2010: design studio Moon/En/Co curated a pop-up exhibition restaurant for the fifth consecutive year during Dutch Design Week last month, featuring pieces by designers including Kiki van Eijk and Maarten Baas. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A spiralling staircase is visible behind the gridded exterior of this office block in Vevey, Switzerland, by Swiss firm Personeni Raffaele Schärer Architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2016: product design students at Swiss university ÉCAL have collaborated with technology brand Punkt to make basic household electronics, such as a radio and a power plug, more intuitive (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2014: a teaspoon that follows a cup around a table and a clock that mimics the actions of the person in front of it were among projects presented by students from Swiss university ECAL in Milan last week. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2015: students from Swiss design school ÉCAL collaborated with craftspeople to present time-related objects in an exhibition at the Museo Bagatti Valsecchi in Milan (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2015: photography and product design students at Swiss university ÉCAL have paired up to create interactive objects and installations that investigate the selfie phenomenon (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

ÉCAL students have set up a pop-up factory during Milan design week, where they are 3D printing a range of design objects on demand. Read more View the full article

The curving balconies of this housing scheme by French studio ECDM Architectes create a rippling outline and provide each flat with outdoor space (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Sliding glass walls front the living area of this Los Angeles house by US firm Aaron Neubert Architects and open onto a terrace designed to make the most of the surrounding views. Read more View the full article

Hanging plants, used books and a bar salvaged from New York are among the diverse elements incorporated into an eatery and bar in Texas conceived by architecture studio Clayton & Little and interior designer Mickie Spencer. Read more View the full article

A combined staircase and bookshelf is one of several multifunctional wooden furniture pieces that Swiss design studio Big-Game has inserted into two plain white apartments in Switzerland (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The two rehearsal rooms of this Brazilian music school are covered with chalkboards on the outside and oriented strand board on the inside. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: a prototype packaging product made from seaweed instead of plastic has been named as the Grand Prix winner of this year's Lexus Design Award for emerging designers. (more…) View the full article

These seven woodland cabins are nestled amongst the trees of a park and spa in northern Portugal (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The pitched roof atop this Paris house won’t keep out the rain – it’s actually a pergola for growing fruit over a roof terrace. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article