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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

Merry Christmas to all our readers! We'll be back with more architecture and design tomorrow. In the meantime, enjoy this photo of a cabin in Norway design by Snøhetta, and take a look at the best Christmas trees and cards of the year. View the full article

A lawyer's office occupies a contemporary extension to a commercial building in Montreal, which local studio Naturehumaine designed with a monochrome palette and wooden accents. Read more View the full article

Montreal-based fashion designer Ying Gao has created a pair of robotic dresses that respond to their environment by rippling, expanding and contracting as if they are alive. Read more View the full article

Interior designers have four new categories to enter for Dezeen Awards 2020. This year, there are awards for restaurant interiors, bar interiors, large retail interiors and small retail interiors. Read more View the full article

The work of six up-and-coming French designers is on show at the Maison&Objet furniture fair in Paris, revealing an emerging trend for handmade rather than mass-produced objects. Read more View the full article

Roughly hewn concrete gives a rocky texture to the walls of this Alpine holiday home by Austrian studio Marte.Marte Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

An eccentric fictional family informed the vivid interiors of this pop-up shop in west London, which has been designed by creatives Selena Beaudry, Clemmie Myers and Natalie Tredgett. Read more

This towering Seoul residence created by South Korean architect Moon Hoon for a photographer and his mother, features a relief-patterned facade punctured by small windows. Read more View the full article

News: Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen's Voltage collection featuring 3D-printed garments has been awarded the Golden Eye prize at this year's Dutch Design Awards. (more...) View the full article

OOPEAA has won the 2015 Finlandia Prize for Architecture with Puukuokka – the tallest wooden apartment block in Finland and one of the first high-rise examples of prefabricated cross-laminated timber construction in the world. (more…) View the full article

As we count down the days to enter Dezeen Awards, interiors expert judge Michelle Ogundehin says she is looking forward to submissions that combine originality with sustainability. Read more View the full article

Alejandro Aravena was named as the 2016 recipient of the Pritzker Prize this week. We've created a Pinterest board of projects by the Chilean architect, as well as buildings by past winners including SANAA, Shigeru Ban and many more. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See key projects from previous Pritzker laureates View the full article

Three fantasy house plans have been selected as the winners of the Design a Beautiful House competition: a marble-clad mansion, a subterranean lakeside dwelling and a linear property with faceted bays. (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen, Pantone announced Classic Blue as the colour of the coming year, while we looked back at 2019 with the launch of our year in review series. Read more View the full article

Local basalt stone mixed into the concrete used to construct this holiday home in India helps to connect it with its mountainous site (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance based this bookcase for design brand Meta on the spiralling shape of an ammonite fossil. (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

Dezeen Jobs has a number of promising architecture and design roles available right now, including positions at international studio White Red Architects and Chinese firm Superimpose Architecture. Read more View the full article

Expanding a remodelled bungalow in Los Angeles and connecting it to an adjacent commercial building has allowed architect Martin Fenlon to create more living spaces for his family and offices for his studio. Read more View the full article

In this movie filmed by Dezeen, east London designer Roger Arquer talks about the benches he made for the Stepney Green Design Collection using materials sourced from his local family-run hardware shop just before it closed down. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: retailer Life Kitchens has opened a flagship store in London's Waterloo, which comes complete with a virtual-reality theatre that allows customers to see and modify their suites before purchasing. Read more View the full article

News: Guardian architecture critic Oliver Wainwright has added his voice to calls for an overhaul of the UK architectural education system, accusing it of being out of date and sealed off from the realities of working in the industry. (more...) View the full article

Argentinian artist Tomás Saraceno has created a pair of air-filled globes that he eventually plans to sail across the sky. (more…) View the full article