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Multi-disciplinary design studio Frama used mismatched wooden chairs and concrete surfaces to create a Middle Eastern version of the humble French bistro inside this Copenhagen restaurant. Read more

Montreal brothers Byron and Dexter Peart have launched a marketplace for products framed on "good people, good design and good impact". Here they choose five that represent this vision. Read more

Thai company BeeConscious has created wraps from beeswax-coated cotton, that can stand in for cling film and other plastic packaging for food. Read more

Judges and VIPs joined architects and designers from all over the world at Ennismore Sessions House in London for this year's Dezeen Awards party. Read more View the full article

Kazunori Fujimoto Architects & Associates used corner windows for a concrete house with views of the sea and Itsukushima Shrine in Japan's Hiroshima prefecture. Read more View the full article

Arkansas architect and educator Marlon Blackwell has been named the winner of the highest accolade awarded by the American Institute of Architects in recognition of his work in the country's South. Read more View the full article

Brazilian firm MNMA has used render, wood panelling, and limestone to complete the minimal aesthetic of this shoe shop in São Paulo. Read more View the full article

A cantilevered upper floor and a glazed gable end feature in a house in Berkshire, England, by architecture practice Spratley & Partners. Read more View the full article

Dutch designers Iris van Daalen and Ruben Thier's The Plastic Mine is a series of home accessories made from plastic clumps gathered from a factory floor. Read more View the full article

Washington firm Stuart Silk Architects has completed a waterfront house in Seattle, which consists of cedar-clad pavilions organised around a Japanese garden. Read more View the full article

Dutch architecture practice UNStudio has recreated a typical Dutch townhouse's facade in bricks made from stainless steel and glass for Louis Vuitton's store on Amsterdam shopping street PC Hooftstraat. Read more View the full article

Architecture video blogger Martin van der Linden explains the different types of torii gates found at Japanese Shinto temples, in his latest contribution to Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has created a virtual version of its About Time: Fashion and Duration exhibition, which has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: L03 is a minimal wooden bench designed by Studio Eva Natasa, intended to "ignite more social interaction among people". Read more View the full article

Pasel Kuenzel architects of Rotterdam have designed a zinc-clad house on the site of a former slaughterhouse in Lieden, Netherlands. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The late entry deadline for Dezeen Awards 2020 ends on 9 June at 23:59 UK time. This is your last chance to enter your projects and your studio this year! Read more View the full article

Here’s a movie of British designer Thomas Heatherwick’s UK Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo 2010, which opens next month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Daniel Widrig has created a wooden chair with three legs that morph into armrests and a back. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s another stadium designed by German studio GMP Architekten (see our earlier stories here and here) for the 2010 FIFA World Cup starting this week in South Africa. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stuttgart office Birk und Heilmeyer Architekten have completed this wooden observation tower in Hemer, Germany. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Dezeen are proud to be media partners of The Tramshed, a new east London destination open 22-26 September during the London Design Festival. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the latest RIBA Future Trends Survey indicates the architecture profession is still suffering downward trends in work levels and underemployment. See press release below. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Tokyo 2010: here’s another origami-inspired product by Naoki Kawamoto (see the spectacle case in our earlier story), this time a handbag. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This residence in Beijing by Beijing Matsubara and Architects was built around a smaller house that was already on the site. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stockholm 2011: young designers Form Us With Love present an exhibition of their latest projects in a converted church in Stockholm this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article