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Israeli ceramicist Michal Fargo produces these vases by ripping blocks of spongy foam into rough shapes before dipping them in porcelain and firing them (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The latest activity tracker for the vagina is this device by London studio Goodwin Hartshorn, designed to help women strengthen their pelvic floor muscles and monitor their progress. (more...) View the full article

A 150-year-old farm complex in Switzerland has been converted into an assortment of office and apartment blocks by Zürich studio EM2N (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Folding steel shutters and bullet-proof glass protect the new reception of the Belgian Embassy in Athens by Buerger Katsota Architects. (more…) View the full article

Czech architects Chalupa Architekti have won a competition to design the new Embassy of the Czech Republic in Washington DC, USA. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Rather belatedly, here’s a pavilion designed by Beijing studio HHD_FUN for Shanghai, with a surface composed of triangles, divided and divided again in a fractal pattern. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Paris has unveiled a gold-medal-shaped emblem for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympic Games that incorporates the Olympic flame and the lips of Marianne. Read more View the full article

A cafe, playroom and gallery are tucked beneath the artificial topography of this undulating public square in Mexico by architect Enrique Norten of TEN Arquitectos. (more…) View the full article

Companies from across the architecture, engineering and construction industries have collaborated to create a free digital embodied carbon calculator that they hope will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Read more View the full article

EMBT has completed a Maggie's Centre for cancer care at an art nouveau-hospital in Barcelona, with interiors designed by Patricia Urquiola. Read more

Dezeen promotion: American furniture company Emeco has unveiled a new seating collection made using reclaimed materials by British designer Jasper Morrison at Milan's Salone Del Mobile furniture fair. (more…) View the full article

Owners of Emeco's iconic Navy chair can finally avoid the shock of sitting on ice-cold aluminium with these purpose-made seat pads. (more...) View the full article

News: American brand Emeco has reached a settlement in its legal dispute with Restoration Hardware after claiming the fellow US company's Naval Chair (below) is a rip-off of its classic Navy Chair (above). (more...) View the full article

News: American furniture brand Emeco has reached a settlement in its legal dispute with two companies that were allegedly copying the company's Navy Chair and Kong Chair. (more...) View the full article

Movie: Oki Sato of Nendo explains the concept behind the SU stool, which is based on American furniture company Emeco's iconic Navy Chair and which which features interchangeable seats made from recycled and reclaimed materials. (more...) View the full article

American architect Eric Fisher claims to have built the world's largest residential cantilever with this house in Pittsburgh that protrudes by 16 metres to hover over the roof of a glass factory (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: visitors to the Polish pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale launch themselves off a pile of birdcages into a sea of artificial clouds. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Edition Office, Linehouse and Takt Project have been named the best emerging studios of the year at the Dezeen Awards party in London. Read more View the full article

UNStudio, Zaha Hadid Architects, White Arkitekter and Gruff Architects, were named among the winners of the Archiboo Web Awards 2019, which spotlight the best websites belonging to architects and architecture companies. Read more

Emil Eve Architects has paired original details with contemporary finishes in this loft apartment, which it created inside a Victorian warehouse building in Shoreditch, east London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London-based studio Emil Eve Architects has transformed a heritage-listed building in Somerset into a lifestyle store, cafe and bed and breakfast (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This simple armchair with a wooden base and upholstered body by Italian designer Emilio Nanni will debut in Milan next month. (more…)

Artist and illustrator Emily Forgot collaborated with British furniture brand Very Good & Proper on this series of multimedia artworks that draw inspiration from the architecture of post-war schools. Read more View the full article

A kilometre-long cable car designed by British architects Wilkinson Eyre has opened today over the River Thames in London. (more…) View the full article

Graduate shows 2015: Bath School of Art and Design graduate Emma Buckley has coloured a range of decorative ceramic tableware by letting dye seep up through gaps in the glazing (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article