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A pink-tinged CBD store in New York and a minimalist handbag boutique in Milan are among the top 10 shops of 2019, selected by interiors reporter Natasha Levy as part of Dezeen's yearly review. Read more View the full article

We've selected five roles in PR and marketing available on Dezeen Jobs this week, including positions with Adjaye Associates and WilkinsonEyre. Read more View the full article

The latest edition of Dezeen Weekly includes a quirky 1970s house overhauled by Gundry & Ducker and Samsung's latest flip phone. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly › View the full article

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has announced that it will close indefinitely from tomorrow in a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus in the city. Read more View the full article

Dezeen announces Virtual Design Festival, the world's first online design festival, taking place from Wednesday 15 April onwards. Read more View the full article

El Hadi Jazairy and Rania Ghosn of collaborative architecture practice Design Earth discuss how to engage with the climate emergency in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic in this interview with architecture writer Carson Chan, which forms part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day. Read more View the full article

Not-for-profit organisation Estudio Cavernas has built the sugarcane-thatched Green Island community centre for over 400 Burmese children living near the Myanmar border in western Thailand. Read more View the full article

Danish architecture studio Adept has used customised curved bricks to clad the five-storey Theodora House housing block alongside the Elephant Gate at the Carlsberg Brewery in Copenhagen. Read more View the full article

More from Italian design brand Alessi: here are a couple of images showing a ceramic vase by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas Architects. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Jak Studio has redesigned the conventional L-shaped sofa to suit the "home workplace of the future", enabling it to be altered from seating or a bed into a work pod. Read more View the full article

Romanian studio Square One have completed a clothing store in Bucharest with pointy display stands and a network of black electrical cables. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We still have some T-shirts left from our DezeenBarBasso party in Milan last month, and we’re giving them away to 10 lucky readers. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: we’ve just added Vue by Yves Béhar for Issey Miyake (above) and Hu by Ross Lovegrove to the Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch shoe designer Marloes ten Bhömer has created a pair of 3D-printed shoes that can be individually made to fit perfectly. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swedish designers Humans since 1982 have created a hair clip with eyes on to make the wearer look like they’re standing the other way round and wearing a niqāb headdress. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Russian architects Arch-group have designed a Russian Orthodox church and cultural centre for a site by the Eiffel Tower in Paris. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has added stacked layers of white marble to create a podium in this Romanesque church in France. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The latest completed venue for the London 2012 Olympics is the Basketball Arena, a PVC tent designed by Sinclair Knight Merz with Wilkinson Eyre and KSS. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In this interview filmed by Dezeen for trade show Garden Unique at Spoga+Gafa, British garden designer Andrew Wilson of Wilson McWilliam Studio talks about a few of his favourite projects, including a pathway cantilevered over an intense sea of roses (above). Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this interview we filmed at Dezeen Space, designer Jólan van der Wiel explains how his series of stools are shaped by magnets and gravity. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A spiky kindergarten and a bulbous sports centre with rooftop funnels are included in this conceptual community by architecture students at Lund University, Sweden. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The latest batch of designers and brands to be added to the line up for our Christmas pop-up store The Temporium include WRAP magazine (above), whose large format pull-out illustrations are perfect for wrapping presents. There are also pencils in the shape of crucifixes, lace-up leather grips for handlebars, deluxe paper planes and much more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: this animation by Studio Yog and LOBOTOMY was drawn on the isometric grid of XYZ Note, a sketchbook designed by Seoul studio KAMKAM. Each drawing in the animation responds to the rhythm of the music. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week we introduced slideshows of larger images to the top of selected stories on Dezeen – see the first few examples here, including a museum of handmade paper, stripped-out factories awaiting renovation and a skatepark in Calais. BIG won a competition to renovate and extend an art centre in Utah with proposals that will be built from railway sleepers reclaimed from the Great Salt Lake and OMA broke ground on their performing arts centre for Taipei which “looks like something bad has happened” according to our readers. American musician Moby started a personal blog documenting architecture in Los Angeles and we reported on artist Damien Hirst’s proposals to build…

Five years ago this week, Zaha Hadid unveiled designs for a private house with a lookout tower in a forest near Moscow and OMA were commissioned to design a 36-storey residential tower in Singapore. The whole Dezeen team was on holiday (there were fewer of us back then) so we featured projects from the first book by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs, Twenty-First Century Design, including Marcel Wanders’ Airborne Snotty Vases, and the Millau Viaduct by Foster & Partners. See all our stories from March 2007 » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article