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Five years ago we were the first to publish images of an apartment designed for Kanye West by architect Claudio Silvestrin, following a chance encounter with the musician during Design Miami 2006. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin and actress Kate Winslet were the latest stars to design toys for furniture store Habitat, while Brazilian designers the Campanas revealed designs for chairs made from Disney cuddly toys. We featured photographs of a rather dark pavilion by architect David Adjaye, as well as a more colourful one by Zaha Hadid at furniture fair imm cologne, and we offered our congratulations to Thomas Heatherwick and Maisie Rowe on the birth of their twins. </img&gt…

As interest in space travel grows, NASA has created graphics advertising holidays on planets that could potentially support life. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: overlapping openings in the walls and ceilings of this Tokyo house by Japanese architects Suppose Design Office create dozens of views between rooms. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: following our story about the much awaited western concourse at King’s Cross station by John McAslan & Partners, we decided to group together all of our stories about stations for this week’s archive feature. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Dezeen’s pop-up retail concept The Temporium is going online this Sunday to guest-curate a collection of homeware by the likes of Jamie Hayon, Paul Cocksedge and Alexa Lixfeld on flash-sales site LLUSTRE.com. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: a layer of translucent plastic cloaks the bright yellow and green exterior of this Shanghai youth centre by Chinese firm Atelier Deshaus. (more…) View the full article

Japanese architect Jo Nagasaka of Schemata Architecture Office has designed the interior of a food-photography studio in Tokyo. (more…) View the full article

This bright white wedge-shaped house by Spanish studio Fran Silvestre Arquitectos thrusts out from the rock face behind it in the valley town of Ayora, near Valencia (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London design brand Hulger has launched a mini version of its award-winning Plumen 001 lightbulb and it’ll be available at Dezeen Super Store from Friday. (more…) View the full article

In this movie we filmed at Clerkenwell Design Week earlier this year, clay modeller for car brand Jaguar Charles Douglas tells Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs how he turns a designer’s sketch into a 3D form that can be scanned for manufacture. (more…) View the full article

This thatched visitor centre by architects Wingårdhs sits beside the shallow waters of Sweden’s Lake Tåkern, the annual nesting habitat for over a hundred species of bird (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

French architects JKA and design studio FUGA have converted a nineteenth century Alpine farmhouse in France into a holiday villa with chunky wooden cladding and cut-outs based on the shadows of other buildings (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Maison&Objet 2013: London designer Benjamin Hubert has created a range of terracotta pots with rubber lids for Danish homeware brand Menu. (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2013: a wall lamp that mimics an eclipse of the sun and tray of vases held fast by magnets were among the objects on show in an exhibition of work by young Norwegian designers during Stockholm Design Week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A bedroom and bathroom are hidden inside a white box in this converted warehouse by Japanese architects Airhouse Design Office (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Arched openings bring students past shimmering tiled buildings and into landscaped courtyards at this grammar school near Melbourne by Australian architects McBride Charles Ryan (slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Interview: we caught up with Miguel Fluxá, head of shoe brand Camper, at the opening of the brand's Nendo-designed boutique on Fifth Avenue in New York last month (below). In this short interview, he explains why the company uses different designers for each of its global stores for cultural, rather than business, reasons (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The new Silicon Valley HQ of data storage company Evernote features a coffee bar in the lobby, staircases with built-in seating and an in-house artist to paint murals on whiteboards. (+slideshow) (more...) View the full article

Within the intricately moulded interiors of this Parisian office block, architect Estelle Vincent has inserted a trio of boxy timber meeting spaces – one of which is can be exited down a pale blue slide (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Original floor tiles were relocated to highlight seating areas during designer Laura Bonell Mas' renovation of this Barcelona apartment (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

News: the number of people riding the Wilkinson Eyre-designed Emirates Air Line has dropped by half since last year, fuelling criticism that the project is not fulfilling its intended role as a key part of London's transportation infrastructure. (more...) View the full article

News: supercar brand McLaren is exploring ways of developing shape-shifting "transformer" vehicles that morph from self-driving city cars to low-slung racers in the countryside, according to chief designer Robert Melville. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: MMT Calendar, a distinctive pocket watch with a wooden shell, is now available in two finishes at Dezeen Watch Store (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Ma Yansong of Chinese studio MAD presents a masterplan for Nanjing, China, where buildings are designed to look like mountains and public spaces overlap with the natural landscape, as part of the Shenzhen and Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of UrbanismArchitecture. (more...) View the full article

Visitors to London department store Selfridges can take a virtual reality tour created by technology company Inition inside a helmet by fashion designer Gareth Pugh (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article