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Shanghai architects TF and PPAS have built a set of sprawling concrete structures that will be used by visitors to an agricultural park on the outskirts of the Chinese city (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London architect Carl Turner has developed a design for a prefabricated floating house and has made the plans available to download via an open-source architecture website. (more…) View the full article

Opinion: the conversion of old industrial buildings into "creative office space" has proven so successful in LA, even galleries like Hauser Wirth & Schimmel are getting in on the act, says Mimi Zeiger. (more…) View the full article

The colours of the sky are echoed in the furnishings and fittings of this lofty Manhattan restaurant, which architecture studio Woods Bagot designed so the views could "steal the show". Read more View the full article

London studio De Matos Ryan has refurbished a historic theatre in York, England, to create more space in both the 18th-century building and its 1960s extension by Modernist architect Patrick Gwynne (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

AIRLAB has completed an angular, mesh-covered pavilion at Singapore's Gardens by the Bay, which has a structure made entirely from 3D-printed stainless steel components. Read more View the full article

These London townhouses by architects Piercy & Company have chunky banisters formed from thickly layered birch plywood. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2014: Finnish design brand Iittala is showing a collection of boxy shelves, plywood furniture and glass lamps in Milan this week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The "world's lightest and most compact electric bike" has surpassed its crowdfunding goal in just two days. Check out all the bicycles we've featured on Dezeen, including a design that folds into a backpack and a bike with a frame made from cardboard. See all our stories about bicycles » View the full article

The Venice Biennale manifesto of Grafton Architects is proof that vapid commentary can diminish great architecture, says Owen Hatherley. Read more View the full article

Opinion: the photo-sharing site set the agenda at this year's Milan design week and hints at how technology will transform the way we experience the world, says Marcus Fairs, who also shares a selection of his own Instagram images from the week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The latest version of the affordable XO tablet, designed by Yves Behar for the One Laptop Per Child Association, goes on sale this week (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

The elevated garden of this Singapore house by architects Formwerkz creates a huge canopy to shelter bedrooms beneath. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: recent design graduate Leanie van der Vyver speaks to us about her project Scary Beautiful, a pair of extreme, back-to-front high heels, which she presented at Design Indaba in Cape Town. (more...) View the full article

We have now sold out of early-bird tickets to Dezeen Day! However, due to strong demand, we've released more tickets at the same reduced price, which are available to buy until Friday 4 October. Student tickets have also been reduced in price. Read more

Rust-toned frames cover the facade of this extension to a central London home, which Gianni Botsford Architects designed to house its owner's private collection of photographs, prints and lithographs. Read more View the full article

Competition: Dezeen are giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of architecture and design critic Will Wiles‘ novel about how interior design affects the way we live, called Care of Wooden Floors. (more…) View the full article

Swiss architect Aurélie Blanchard has lined every wall and surface in the bar of this Basel restaurant with copper, while a dark green dining room looms just behind. (more…) View the full article

Opinion: Mythbusters may not have been obviously about design, but its high-octane science experiments made viewers think more about the material world than any other TV show, says Will Wiles. (more…) View the full article

Architect Sadie Morgan of dRMM has vowed to put design at the heart of a £100 billion revamp of UK infrastructure, after being named as a member of a government commission that will advise on how the money should be spent. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Screen: designer Paulo Benvegnú represents her own family in the shape of 30 unique cups in this movie filmed at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we've teamed up with author Corinna Dean to give away five copies of her new book Slacklands, a photographic guide to rural British architecture from the 20th century. (more...) View the full article

Museums should use the disruption caused by coronavirus to fundamentally rethink how they operate and what their purpose is, says Owen Hopkins. Read more View the full article

The latest edition of Dezeen Weekly includes a graduate fashion show featuring billowing latex trousers, news that the Salone del Mobile furniture fair in Milan has been postponed until June and a Japanese home with 16 floors. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly › View the full article

This clinic by architect Kimitaka Aoki in the Ibaraki prefecture of Japan is designed to look like a cluster of smaller buildings (+slideshow). (more...) View the full article