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Dezeen promotion: this range of roof windows by glazing brand Fakro is designed to work with a range of building types. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: window manufacturer Fakro has launched a range of skylights suited to flat roofs, including one that shuts automatically when it begins to rain. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Large windows by Fakro punctuate the roof of a multi-family apartment block in Richmond, USA, creating micro balconies for the residents to enjoy. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: windows by manufacturer Fakro dot the roof of this bright white office building in southern Poland, filling its interiors with natural light. Read more

Architecture studio Fala Atelier has renovated São Brás House in Porto, Portugal, adding colourful facades and custom furniture for four apartments. Read more

A skinny chimney-style tower houses the bathroom and shower of a residential renovation in Amarante, Portugal, designed by architecture studio Fala Atelier. Read more View the full article

Bright white surfaces, industrial shelving and a grey marble counter create an uncluttered interior for this Porto clothes shop by local studio Fala Atelier (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Portuguese studio Fala Atelier has used a mint green floor to brighten up the interior of a two-bedroom apartment in Porto. Read more View the full article

Porto studio Fala Atelier has overhauled the layout of a cramped flat in Lisbon, adding sliding doors that connect each room to a central living area and small balcony. (more…) View the full article

Architecture studio Fala Atelier has converted a former clothing factory in the town of Abragão, Portugal, into a block of six bare apartments. Read more

Fala Atelier has gutted a 19th-century Lisbon apartment, creating a continuous living area framed by a new semi-circular wall (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Porto architecture studio Fala Atelier has overhauled a fragmented 19th-century Lisbon flat, creating a long narrow living area framed by a subtly curved wall. Read more View the full article

Stray balls aren’t a problem on the rooftop tennis court of this sports centre in western Poland by PL.architekci, thanks to the cage that covers the building (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Norwegian designer Falke Svatun has crafted a range of stoneware vessels with cut-out bases, enabling them to balance on the edge of shelves or windowsills (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Canadian studio Falken Reynolds has chosen stark white surfaces and contemporary finishes to enhance the original features of a historic Vancouver residence. Read more View the full article

A hidden sleeping loft and an all-white hallway lined with closets are among the features in a renovated Vancouver apartment designed by Canadian firm Falken Reynolds. Read more

Students from London's Royal College of Art and Imperial College have devised a system that provides access to news coverage via a portable satellite modem during a government-enforced internet shutdown. Read more View the full article

American firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has turned a garage close to Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house into an education centre for summer residency students. Read more

Designer Tim Mackerodt of Germany will show this lamp and stool made of folded concrete at DMY International Design Festival in Berlin next month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This wedge-shaped cabin in the Czech Republic, by Prague studio FAM Architekti, has a folding screen set into one of its slatted timber facades to open the interior out to a nearby lake (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Rhode Island School of Design graduate George Coffin has designed a collection of products that add twists to familiar objects, including this watering can with a bent wood handle. There are also plungers combined with ornately turned handles or a walking stick, and more walking sticks with rubber wedges at the bottom to form door stops. Pieces of plastic bottles have been used to cast concrete fittings for pendant lamps and the cord of a coordinating desk lamp is held in place by notches in a counterbalanced wooden frame. Here are a couple of lines of explanation from Coffin: I’m a recent graduate from the Furniture Design department at The Rhode Island School …

Sergey Makhno has overhauled his duplex apartment in Kiev with the intention of creating a "a bridge between Japanese minimalism and Ukrainian aesthetics." Read more View the full article

Mexican designer Valentin Garal has designed a bench with an integrated budgie cage. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Concrete block walls with window-like apertures surround a courtyard at the front of this Melbourne house by local practice MRTN Architects, which also features an angular wooden roof (+slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Barcelona-based Hiha Studio removed floors and inserted lofty voids to create this light-filled family home in a northeastern Spanish village. Read more