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Design studio i29 referenced the rich past of Amsterdam's Felix Meritis building for the overhaul of its interiors, which now feature vivid splashes of colour. Read more View the full article

As part of today's VDF x Braun collaboration, we have teamed up with the German design brand to give readers the chance of winning a Braun LE03 speaker and a BN0265 Chronograph watch. Read more View the full article

London Design Biennale director Christopher Turner has been appointed to lead the architecture and design department at the V&A museum. Read more View the full article

Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, will give a keynote speech at Dezeen Day, our new international architecture and design conference taking place in London on 30 October. Read more

Scott Whitby Studio has used over 1,000 foam pyramids to transform a shipping container into a pop-up cinema where port workers can be taught vital health and safety information. Read more View the full article

These images by Belgian photographer Jan Kempenaers document a series of ruined World War Two monuments dotted across the landscape of the former Yugoslavian territories. (more...) View the full article

Fundamental Approach Architects has transformed the facade of an eight-storey housing block in Tehran using angular screens of perforated brick. Read more

Slideshow: Californian architects Garcia Tamjidi have completed a studio apartment in San Francisco that looks more like an art gallery or showroom. (more…) View the full article

Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed a new movie showing the studio's proposal for a sand-dune-inspired building that will be the new headquarters for Middle Eastern environmental company Bee'ah (+ movie). (more…)

Slideshow: here’s another of the six artists’ studios that Norwegian firm Saunders Architecture designed for an island off the coast of Canada, this time a white angular cabin. (more…) View the full article

The latest edition of Dezeen Weekly includes Zaha Hadid Architects' new airport terminal building in Beijing and photomontages that combine archaeological sites in Iran with contemporary buildings. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly ›

Snøhetta celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. In the first part of an exclusive interview with Dezeen, co-founder Kjetil Trædal Thorsen explains that the firm's ultimate aim has always been to make buildings for the betterment of society. Read more View the full article

Coronavirus lockdowns will have a profound impact on how creative businesses work in future, according to architects and designers including Carlo Ratti Associati, BIG, Snøhetta and Pearson Lloyd. Read more View the full article

In 1983, a young engineer at Casio invented the indestructible G-Shock watch. Kikuo Ibe, now the Japanese brand's research and development chief engineer, told Dezeen how he developed the cult product. Read more View the full article

Montreal interior design studio Atelier Zébulon Perron has created drinking and eating spaces at the city's Four Seasons hotel with curving banquettes, terrazzo floors and varying greyscale palettes. Read more

Grey upholstery helped architecture studio Precht bring a "human touch" to the interior of this data office in Beijing, which features black walls and white zigzag desks. Read more View the full article

The developers of Greenwich Design District have revealed visuals of buildings designed by SelgasCano, 6a Architects, Adam Khan Architects, Architecture 00, HNNA, Barozzi Veiga, David Kohn Architects and Mole Architects, that will make up the development. Read more View the full article

A stainless steel volume topped by a skylight protrudes from this house in Santiago, which Chilean architect Rodolfo Cañas has completed for his family. Read more

Modernism Week in Palm Springs, Stockholm Design Week and the Collect crafts fair and Surface Design Show in London are among the architecture and design events taking place this month and listed on Dezeen Events Guide. Read more View the full article

New flat-pack pieces from St Louis-based furniture company Artifox include a vertical bike rack and a standing desk with a writable surface (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The latest issue of our Dezeen Mail newsletter features readers’ opinions on the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, a green HQ for the United Nations’ Green Climate Fund and shoes supposedly made of bio-engineered stingray skin (above). There’s also new jobs, competitions, interviews and music. Read Dezeen Mail issue 104 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Zaha Hadid's closest confidantes have distanced themselves from the speech made by her successor Patrik Schumacher, in which he called for social housing to be scrapped and public space to be privatised. Read more View the full article

This inkjet printer has been adapted by Ecole Cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) student Christophe Guberan to print patterns that contort pieces of paper into specific 3D forms. (more…) View the full article

Furniture and interior designer Carol Egan was influenced by the form of dragonflies when creating this sculptural collection, which was launched at an exhibition staged in New York gallery Maison Gerard. Read more View the full article

New York's Cooper Hewitt is trying to tackle the global challenge of climate change with its sixth design triennial, Nature. Director Caroline Baumann picks out five of the most forward-thinking designs in the show, covering issues such as animal extinction and plastic pollution. Read more