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The palette of exposed, untreated materials used to construct this house in Killan, Ireland, results in a building with an intentionally unfinished appearance. Read more

London designer Max Lamb used stonemasonry tools to hand-carve the models for this crockery collection from lumps of plaster. (more…) View the full article

This week the first 3D-printed gun was fired, closely followed by a US government ban on the blueprints allowing people to download and print one for themselves. Read on for our roundup of the past seven days plus the Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Product designer Alexander Lervik, broadcaster Li Pamp and designer Petter Thorne speak to Dezeen's Marcus Fairs about the line between art and design in this talk filmed for Aritco in Stockholm. Read more View the full article

A pair of neon eyes stare out from the back of eyewear brand Ace & Tate's new Soho store, which creative agency Anyways have designed in reference to the area's risqué past. Read more View the full article

Milan 2012: 14 young designers come together to create an ideal living space for an exhibition called The Front Room: Geometry and Colour inside a listed Milanese house this week. (more…) View the full article

A+Awards: the African armadillo influenced the curved, scale-covered form of this boutique safari lodge in Botswana – one of the winners at this year's Architizer A+Awards. (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

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 architecture office 2A+P/A has bought an Ettore Sottsass painting to life to create a black barrel-roofed pavilion for an architecture festival in Orléans, France. Read more View the full article

Folks is presenting Sculptural Objects, a collection of everyday items that are handcrafted to evoke sculptures, for VDF x Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

This small faceted house by Japanese studios D.I.G Architects and Nawakenji-m is embedded in a steep slope overlooking the city of Nagoya (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dutch designer Marcel Wanders has collaborated with specialist leather studio Bill Amberg to design hides digitally printed with close-up fractal patterns based on sacred geometry. Read more

A house with an asymmetrical roof on the Japanese island of Hokkaido has been renovated and extended by architecture studio Yoshichika Takagi + Associates. Read more View the full article

This week One World Trade Center topped out in New York, where we've just landed for our Dezeen and MINI World Tour. Read on for a recap of what Zaha Hadid, OMA, BIG and Herzog & de Meuron have been up to in the last seven days, plus Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Thin black aluminium tubes slot together in endless configurations to create this clothes rail inspired by scaffolding. Designed by Martha Schwindling, the powder-coated tubes fit together with resin connectors to create a customisable multipurpose clothes rack that looks a bit like a bean trellis. "The major inspiration came from architectural scaffolding," Schwindling told Dezeen. "It can be adapted to every construction site's particular needs and I wanted to create a smaller indoor version of these, a scaffolding that would adapt to people's homes or to the changing demands of decoration and presentation of goods in store." Four lengths of tube can be used to…

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

Dutch footwear brand United Nude has created a pair of shoes with 3D-printed heels designed to look as if they have been sculpted from a block of ice (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This wearable camera by London designers ChauhanStudio and Oxford technology business OMG Life uses sensors and GPS technology to decide which moments of your life are worth photographing. (more…) View the full article

Fabriek McCabe makes use of traditional oak joinery in its McKano furniture collection, which it is introducing at VDF's collaboration with Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

A mockup of the cladding system blamed for the catastrophic scale of the Grenfell Tower blaze has failed its government-ordered fire safety check. Read more View the full article

This white residence hidden amongst the trees in rural Quebec is shrouded by a grid of white slats, which filters light coming into the home. Read more View the full article

British designer Samuel Wilkinson has updated the classic director's chair, introducing a hidden mechanism that allows the fabric seat to be held in tension without any noticeable support. Read more View the full article

Slideshow: Huge glowing baskets surround the staircases of this former slaughterhouse in Madrid that Spanish architects Churtichaga+Quadra-Salcedo have converted into a cinema. (more…) View the full article

London-based surfaces manufacturer Foresso uses timber offcuts and plaster waste to produce this terrazzo-like sheet material, which retains the character of woodgrain. Read more View the full article