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Photo essay: Istanbul-based Yener Torun has created a photography series that offers an alternative view of historic Turkish cities, featuring modern buildings with graphic shapes and bright colours (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with London's Royal College of Art to offer five readers the chance to win a pair of tickets to the private view of the school's 2016 graduate exhibition on 23 June 2016. (more…) View the full article

Instagram is rolling out a service allowing designers to sell their products direct to their followers, according to the platform's head of design Ian Spalter. Read more View the full article

Milan 2013: Dutch brand Moooi has sent us these sketches by designers including Marcel Wanders, Studio Job and Joost van Bleiswijk for the Dutch firm's new collection launching in Milan next week. (more...) View the full article

Gowns with gradated ruffled skirts were accessorised with delicate head scarves in fashion designer Giambattista Valli's haute-couture collection, shown in Paris yesterday. (more...) View the full article

Hundreds of cut-out paper letters tell the history of typefaces in this stop-motion animation by Canadian graphic designer Ben Barrett-Forrest. (more...) View the full article

Maison&Objet 2014: British designer Sebastian Bergne has created a letter stand from a folded sheet of metal to keep post and stationery tidied away. (more...) View the full article

This house in Berlin designed by Brandt + Simon Architekten is covered in rows of green shingles with curved edges and features windows laid out to resemble a face (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architecture firm ODA New York has conceived three glass towers for Brooklyn that feature setbacks and protrusions to ensure tenants are afforded expansive views. (more…) View the full article

This wristband by sports brand Nike tracks your movement throughout the day and gives you points for being more active. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Collages and sketches of designs by the late architect and Future Systems founder Jan Kaplický have been collected together for an exhibition at the Architectural Association in London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Working on tourism projects in Brazil could help alleviate poverty and reduce destruction of the rainforests, according to BIG partner Kai-Uwe Bergmann. Read more View the full article

French studio FREAKS freearchitects have inserted a rectangular timber tunnel inside this Paris cosmetics shop. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week on Dezeen, the Salone del Mobile fair in Milan was postponed until June as events across Europe were disrupted by the coronavirus outbreak. Read more View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with the Barbican Centre to give readers the chance to win one of three limited-edition prints illustrating the iconic Barbican Estate in London by Manchester-based studio Dorothy (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: UK architecture watchdog the Architects Registration Board has been described as "crackers" and "pathetic" after the body gave Dezeen 14 days to amend an article describing John Pawson as an architect (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

VDF products fair: The Yellow Untitled is a new rug collection designed by Sandra Keja Planken for Noun Amsterdam that aims to brighten interiors "like the morning sun". Read more View the full article

American studio Roger Ferris + Partners has created a trio of wood-clad volumes with pitched roofs for a family relocating from New York City to the Hamptons. Read more View the full article

Bez + Kock Architekten used a bridge to connect an extension and a 17th-century museum in Arnsberg, Germany, forming the Museum and Cultural Forum South Westphalia. Read more View the full article

This week Dezeen relocated to Milan for the city's annual design week, where we've been reporting on product launches from Zaha Hadid, Ron Arad, Studio Job (above), Konstantin Grcic and more, plus we kicked off the second leg of our Dezeen and MINI World Tour by taking a drive around town with designer Fabio Novembre and set up a TV studio in a car wash. Read on for more highlights of the week and our top track from Dezeen Music Project. (more...) View the full article

Skyscrapers in Seoul: the first of two stories about buildings that architect Daniel Libeskind has designed for the Yongsan International Business District that he masterplanned for Seoul, South Korea, features three towers inspired by the movements of a Korean Buddhist dance. (more…) View the full article

Brightly coloured pods resembling submarines contain meeting rooms at the new Moscow office for internet company Yandex by Russian studio Za Bor Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Behind the burnt-timber exterior of this sauna by Canadian studio Partisans is a cavernous cedar interior that emulates the form of a seaside grotto (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Narrow indentations create the impression of brushstrokes across the grey plaster walls of a university chemistry facility in Germany, designed by Cologne firm Kister Scheithauer Gross (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen has teamed up with publisher Prestel to give away five copies of a book about London's brutalist architecture, featuring nine pull-out 3D models. Read more View the full article