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Dark grey cladding, snowy white interiors and ample natural light feature in this home with a basement apartment, designed by Canadian studio D'Arcy Jones Architects for an extended family. Read more View the full article

Industrial designer Kim Ramain-Colomb's brightly packaged Habibi cosmetics range is based on traditional Moroccan makeup. Read more View the full article

Design Academy Eindhoven alumni studios look at the myriad consequences of junk in a globalised world in an exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum and across the city for Dutch Design Week. Read more View the full article

A Dutch artist has captured a fluffy white cloud in a beaux-arts style room in San Francisco for the latest in his photography series of indoor clouds (+ slideshow + interview). (more...) View the full article

Japanese brand Muji is introducing a range of handmade homeware – including woodwork, ceramic and glass pieces – to its stores (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architects J. Mayer H. have designed a building made from scaffolding to host the collections and events of the Pinakothek der Moderne museum in Munich when it closes for renovation next year. (more…) View the full article

Glenn Howells Architects has built a dance school for the English National Ballet, with windows in its translucent white cladding that give glimpses of rehearsals. Read more View the full article

The government in Italy has closed all non-essential factories as the country has become the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

In our latest competition, we're offering our readers the chance to win a week-long retreat for two at Soul & Surf in Sri Lanka. Read more View the full article

Beijing studio Vector Architects has built a concrete chapel on a Chinese beach, but raised it up above the sands so that seawater can wash underneath (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: the US group that developed open-source 3D-printed gun parts has launched a file-sharing website for blueprints to 3D-printed illicit items including weapons, drugs and medical equipment. (more...) View the full article

Continuing our review of 2019, Benedict Hobson picks out 10 diverse architecture projects from across China, including a collection of wooden huts on a remote mountainside and one of the largest airports in the world. Read more View the full article

The latest project to complete in Toyo Ito's Home For All community rebuilding initiative is this timber and concrete pavilion in a Japanese fishing village, designed by Kazuyo Sejima's protégé Yang Zhao (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

British designer Tom Dixon's interior for Paris restaurant Éclectic combines raw, industrial concrete surfaces with tactile brass, marble and leather details. (more...) View the full article

A collection of architectural gems in the sleepy seaside town of Littlehampton, fleshy furniture and a travelling abattoir made the headlines this week. Read on for more architecture and design highlights, plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Jasper Morrison's first interior design project in Japan is a Tokyo shop that mimics the layout of a typical house and garden. Read more View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a senior designer with the inventors of Sugru, an ingenious silicone rubber that can be used to fix, strengthen or customise almost any object. See more stories about Sugru on Dezeen here. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Design studio Minorpoet has overhauled a 1960s apartment in Tokyo to create a simple home and workplace that has its kitchen hidden behind folding wooden doors (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

UK menswear designer Tom Cridland has launched a unisex sweater that comes with a 30-year guarantee, to promote sustainable fashion. (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

A banana taped to a wall by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was removed from its display at Art Basel, Miami after "several uncontrollable crowd movements", including someone eating it. Read more View the full article

Two boxes covered in white tiles create new bathrooms in this Barcelona apartment, which has been overhauled by Spanish architects RÄS studio to expose its original features. Read more View the full article

Zaha Hadid's mountain museum at the top of Alpine peak Mount Kronplatz is captured in these new images by British photography duo Hufton + Crow (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

German software company Hyperganic has developed a 3D-printed rocket engine prototype, which was completely designed by artificial intelligence. Read more View the full article

A giant inflatable environment by Spanish architects DOSIS is to be blown up in an east London park to host a day of piñata making and film screenings (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

California firm Walker Warner Architects has transformed a warehouse into a visitor centre for a winery with redwood, cypress and rammed earth. Read more View the full article