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A one-bedroom flat in a 1960s housing block in north-west London has been updated with modern fittings and furniture in this project by designer Adrian Manea (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Beirut design studio T Sakhi combined Venetian Murano glass with recycled metal threads and powder to create a pair of textured glassware collections. Read more View the full article

New York designer Anna Karlin has blended organic shapes with machine-cut forms to create a collection of furniture and objects. Read more

The Pratt Institute has launched an archival project that pays tribute to women in architecture. Following a celebratory dinner party held in March, the school's dean of architecture Harriet Harriss explains why projects like the Mistresses Archive are vital to achieve gender parity in the profession. Read more View the full article

Yves Behar's San Francisco studio Fuseproject has designed a glass bottle and identity for a scheme that encourages hotels to filter water on site rather than importing it in plastic bottles. (more...) View the full article

Madrid fashion designer Yulia Yadryshnikova's latest capsule collection includes a dress that unfolds into a cover for designer Luca Nichetto's most recent sofa. (more...) View the full article

New York-based architectural design practice Jenny Sabin Studio has won MoMA PS1's Young Architecture Program competition with plans for a shelter made of robotically knitted textile solar panels. Read more View the full article

This week John McAslan + Partners unveiled the long-awaited remodelling of King’s Cross Station in London, PayPal launched a device for swiping credit cards to take payments on a smartphone, and readers wondered why the roof of the Enzo Ferrari Museum by Future Systems is yellow rather than red. A photographer’s studio over a boat house in Canada was our most popular story and we continued our Designed in Hackney showcase of design from our local area with work by David Adjaye, Jasper Morrison and Duggan Morris Architects, plus a cinema inside a canal boat. Over on Dezeen Screen you can watch two interviews that Dezeen filmed with Nike’s global creative director Andy …

This week we've picked four of the most promising job opportunities based in the Netherlands, including positions at arts institution Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Dutch design studio UXUS. Read more View the full article

Holly Brookwell is unimpressed by the sexiest advertising for the gold folding phone launched by Pablo Escobar's brother, but is not surprised. Read more View the full article

Spikes made from semi-precious stones break out between the heels and platforms of these shoes by fashion designer Iris van Herpen and shoe brand United Nude. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2014: Japanese design studio YOY presented a lamp that projects the shape of a shade onto a wall and a rug that doubles as a chair in Milan this week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Italian fashion brand Prada has launched six bags made from regenerated nylon, as the first stage in its plan to phase out virgin nylon in the next two years called the ReNylon project. Read more

News: a host of international architects including Zaha Hadid, UNStudio, Snøhetta and Safdie Architects have been shortlisted to design the World Expo 2017 exhibition in Astana, Kazakhstan. (more...) View the full article

RAU Architects and Ro&Ad Architects have designed the egg-shaped Tij Observatory for the Scheelhoek Nature Reserve in Stellendam, the Netherlands. Read more

Dezeen promotion: installations, pop-up shops, events and 200 interior design brands will return to designjunction during this year's London Design Festival (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London's Royal College of Art has been named as the top art and design school in an annual international ranking, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has retained the title of top architecture school. (more…) View the full article

Week four of VDF featured Bar Basso, Studio Drift, Adam Nathaniel Furman, Sevil Peach, Bureau Spectacular, Arthur Mamou-Mani and much more! Read more View the full article

American studio El Dorado took cues from traditional farmhouses to design a rural dwelling composed of cedar-clad volumes topped with pitched metal roofs. Read more View the full article

Huge satin flowers conceal the faces of models walking in Central Saint Martins graduate Ondrej Adamek's London Fashion Week debut. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: design company Luminaire is hosting an exhibition at its Miami Design District showroom featuring works by industrial designer Konstantin Grcic, architect and designer Piero Lissoni and fashion designer Ann Demeulemeester. Read more View the full article

On this Fourth of July, we're rounding up some of the best holiday homes in the US to enjoy the vacation, including a woodsy hideaway, a lakeside retreat and a cabin with mid-century modern style. Read more View the full article

Movie: burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese morphs into a stiletto shoe every fifteen minutes in a holographic performance that was created by London company Musion for the Design Museum‘s exhibition on iconic shoe designer Christian Louboutin. (more…) View the full article

Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani worked with Argentine-American architect César Pelli to complete this residential skyscraper in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida. Read more View the full article

Istanbul Design Biennial: Belgian design studio Unfold used open source components including a filter made of 3D printed ceramic to build this water boiler and purifier, which could be used in the developing world. (more…) View the full article