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There are 207 interior-design projects on the longlist for the inaugural Dezeen Awards, including a revamp of a house built by Frank Gehry, a loft apartment in a former tank station and the offices of IKEA's creative team. Read more View the full article

News: Italian design brands lack the innovation and marketing flair of their northern European rivals, according to the head of new Milan-based furniture brand Discipline. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our first video report from Singapore, Colin Seah of local architecture studio Ministry of Design tells us how the recent cultural shift away from mass-market shops and restaurants is helping transform attitudes towards design in the city. (more...) View the full article

Influential companies should be leading the development of sustainable products, according to Google's vice president of hardware design Ivy Ross. Read more View the full article

News: Foster + Partners has unveiled its design for a new National Museum of Marine Science and Technology in northern Taiwan, which has now begun construction. (more…) View the full article

White-painted bricks and pale timber reveals define this home in Spain by Escribanorosique Arquitects, set around a series of paved courtyard spaces. Read more View the full article

Johan Sundberg Arkitektur has designed a holiday home raised on twelve steel stilts on a steep slope near the sea in Mölle, Sweden. Read more View the full article

Steel crossbeams divide the triple-height living room of this Tokyo townhouse into modular sections. (more…) View the full article

Architecture studio Wallgren Arkitekter and Swedish construction company BOX Bygg have created a parametric design tool called Finch, which can generate floor plans adapted to the constraints of a site. Read more

Jonathan Bocca introduces the Essenza lighting collection as part of VDF's collaboration with Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

Comments update: interior designer and TV presenter Naomi Cleaver provoked a strong response from Dezeen readers this week after identifying student-style accommodation for adults as a potential solution to London's housing crisis. (more…) View the full article

New York firms Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rockwell Group have completed The Shed, a cultural centre in Manhattan's Hudson Yards, featuring a retractable roof that can be moved to form a performance area. Read more

Order the new Dezeen Book of Ideas together with the London Design Guide by Max Fraser and pay just £20 for both books. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Seattle architecture firm SHED has designed this compact home for a couple who wanted to live in a smaller dwelling on their own property. Read more View the full article

Italian architect Antonino Cardillo used roughly textured plaster to create lumpy brown surfaces across the upper walls and ceilings of this apartment in Rome (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

An oversized roof supported by large wooden beams shades the interiors of this home that FujiwaraMuro Architects designed in the Japanese city of Nara to take cues from the form of a mountain hut. Read more View the full article

The team behind London's controversial Garden Bridge have released a short film that allows viewers to experience the project in virtual reality (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Designer Iker Gil and Luftwerk have projected a grid of red lasers across Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House to highlight the building's geometric form and its history. Read more View the full article

A continuous ribbon of steel forms two legs of this simple table by French designer Eric Jourdan. (more...) View the full article

Mexican industrial designer Jorge Diego Etienne has created a series of small tables that look like cages. (more…) View the full article

Japanese designer Yota Kakuda has combined industrial and citrus tones in his interior design for Bake Kitasenju, a cheese tart shop in Tokyo (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

To coincide with Stockholm Design Week, the city's 19th century Gamla Riksarkivet played host to The Archive exhibition exploring the "shared aesthetics and values" of Japanese and Scandinavian design. Read more View the full article

MDF tiles and blue carpet are some of the simple materials that architecture studio Dvekati has used to furnish this office in Moscow, which takes cues from the pared-back aesthetic of Soviet modernism. Read more View the full article

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

Slideshow: German architects Schneider+Schumacher have completed an underground gallery that creates a bulge beneath the lawn of the Staedel Museum in Frankfurt. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article