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Dezeen's design editor Dan Howarth selects his pick of this year's gadgets, including concepts, prototypes and commercial products for cooking, cleaning, cycling and even masturbating (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architects Peter Cook and Dennis Crompton discuss Archigram's influential concept for an elevated city of capsule homes in the second instalment of our exclusive video series with the radical architecture group for VDF. Read more View the full article

In the next of our movies filmed at Dezeen Live during 100% Design, British industrial designer Benjamin Hubert argues that designers should focus on building their own name as a brand. (more...) View the full article

Mexican studio Escobedo Soliz has completed a simple house in Mexico City comprising two brick arms that flank a central patio. Read more View the full article

Architect Felipe Escudero designed and built this clover-shaped house near the Ecuadorian mountain immortalised in the Walter J Turner poem Romance (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Weird and wonderful designs by architects including Zaha Hadid Architects, Madelon Vriesendorp and Sarah Wigglesworth have been installed over the more traditional models of the V&A's architecture gallery, in an exhibition for the London Festival of Architecture. Read more

Aaron Betsky, president of Frank Lloyd Wright's School of Architecture at Taliesin, is leaving the post after a bitter fight to save the experimental institution. Here he details the behind-the-scenes battle to save the school. Read more View the full article

Clavel Arquitectos has released a film of its founder Manuel Clavel swimming in a 42-metre-long pool that cantilevers from a casino complex under construction in Murcia, Spain. Read more View the full article

The Lunar watch by Hong Kong-based brand Ziiiro, which tells the time with light and dark segments, is now available to purchase from Dezeen Watch Store. Read more View the full article

It's easy to shock with technology and innovation, says Michael Anastassiades, but the real challenge for designers is creating objects that stay relevant over time. Read more View the full article

A green steel frame and shallow arched ceilings form the structure of Space Popular's geometric Brick Vault House in Valencia, Spain. Read more View the full article

New York architect Maria Milans del Bosch has designed a house and studio for herself in the Catskills with interventions that are mindful of the natural setting. Read more View the full article

Norwegian architecture studio TYIN Tegnestue has completed a sanitary building for an orphanage in Thailand featuring an angled bamboo facade that provides shelter from the tropical sun (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Paris-based agency JCPCDR Architecture has invented an oak table that raises and lowers from the ceiling using a mechanism that looks like seat belts to save on space. Read more View the full article

Boxy timber volumes tuck away the beds and bathrooms of these minimal holiday apartments designed by Thisispaper Studio, which lie at the heart of the Polish capital. Read more View the full article

Design collective Medium has completed 8-23-VI, a pavilion with moving walls that is a new public place for residents of Gldani neighbourhood. Read more View the full article

Martina Guandalini is launching Soulmate, a range of collectable furniture pieces, for VDF's collaboration with Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

In the first in a series of Dezeen movies about the 2013 World Architecture Festival and Inside Festival, programme director Paul Finch introduces the events and gives a recap of last year's winning projects. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: we’ve now got a special ‘ultra black’ edition of the MY03 Hacker designed by Michael Young available at Dezeen Watch Store. You can order yours online or over the phone on +44 20 7503 7319. You can also try one on at our office in north London. MY03 Hacker differs from the conventional timepiece, featuring a concave face with a central disk that supports the hands while protecting the lens from the knocks and bumps of an active everyday life. www.dezeenwatchstore.com View the full article

This year sadly saw the passing of many iconic figures from architecture and design, including architect IM Pei, fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld and lighting designer Ingo Maurer. We remember 10 of the greats we lost in 2019 as part of our review of the year. Read more View the full article

Design duo Something & Son has created a sustainable farming initiative on a rooftop in Folkestone, England, but has concealed it behind a traditional fish and chip shop facade (+ slideshow + interview). (more...) View the full article

The mass-timber revolution is coming, says Clare Farrow, co-curator of the new London exhibition Timber Rising: Vertical Visions for the Cities of Tomorrow. Read more View the full article

American firm LOHA has unveiled plans for an affordable housing complex in Los Angeles, comprising stacks of shipping containers arranged on a triangular site near a busy highway interchange. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie by Paul Nicholls of architectural animation studio Factory Fifteen, the world is conceptualised as a series of virtual interfaces, where people visit places and meet each other in simulated environments created by the houses that they never leave. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

San Jose-based architecture firm Studio Saxe has built a house in Costa Rica with an indoor-outdoor great room and cantilevered porches upstairs that overlook dense tropical foliage. Read more View the full article