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Rio 2016: if you've been inspired to get active after watching this summer's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, check out our new Pinterest board full of innovative sportswear designs including athletics apparel created from the same material as condoms and trainers made out of recycled ocean plastic. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more sportswear in our archive View the full article

Brexit: the EU Referendum should never have happened according to German designer Konstantin Grcic, who said the decision by Britain's former prime minister David Cameron to host the vote was criminal. (more…) View the full article

Ahead of Valentine's Day, we've selected seven sex toys for solo pleasure, including a gender-neutral vibrator, a masturbation sleeve for trans men, and a sensation suit for disabled people. Read more View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2013: Dutch designer Elisa van Joolen has taken left over sample shoes from shoe brands including Nike, Converse and Clarks, and turned them inside-out to create new footwear (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

South Korean firm Mass Studies has developed a system of five pre-cast concrete modules for building South Korea’s answer to California’s Silicon Valley, starting with this flexible headquarters building for internet company Daum (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A braille printer and an electric suit to prevent muscle spasms were among the products for people with disabilities included in an exhibition curated by Swedish design body Svensk Form for the London Design Festival. (more…) View the full article

Architect and designer Knud Holscher has built a simple glazed house on Fanø, an island off the southwest coast of Denmark. Read more

Polish architect Jakub Szczesny claims to have built the world’s narrowest house, just 122 centimetres across at its widest point. (more…) View the full article

With the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games taking place in a few hours’ time, take a look at this annotated aerial photo of the Olympic Park, which we’ve tagged with info about all the key venues and nearby buildings (click here to see the image). (more…) View the full article

Tapered tree-like columns support a triangulated wooden canopy at this summer pavilion in Helsinki designed by Aalto University student Pyry-Pekka Kantonen (photos by Tiia Ettala). (more…) View the full article

We continue or high-tech architecture series by looking at Foster Associates' Willis Faber & Dumas building, a revolutionary office block in Ipswich, which was completed in 1975. Read more View the full article

Graduate shows 2015: tiny pieces of waste pine wood were meticulously hand-glued together by Royal College of Art graduate Simin Qiu to create these storage boxes and stationery items. (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Zaha Hadid has created a seven-storey office block in Moscow for the city's growing IT and creative sectors, with off-set floor plates and a dramatic black-and-white atrium (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A new generation of Danish designers is helping the country move on from midcentury modern, according to Copenhagen-based designer Maria Bruun. Read more

Comments update: inequality in architecture was back on the agenda this week, as readers responded to Dezeen columnist Alexandra Lange, who argued that sexism and prejudice were still a deep-rooted problem within the industry. (more…) View the full article

Sliding glass walls front the living area of this Los Angeles house by US firm Aaron Neubert Architects and open onto a terrace designed to make the most of the surrounding views. Read more View the full article

Opinion: the UK is one of only three European countries failing to protect designers from intellectual property theft – damaging both their income and the reputation of their products, says Tony Ash, managing director for design brand Vitra. (more…) View the full article

Belgian studio EXAR Architecture have replaced walls of brick and plaster with glass and Corten steel on this extension to a suburban house outside Brussels. (more…) View the full article

California architect Juan Saez Pedraja has added a studio fronted with large aluminium and cedar shades to the backyard of this remodelled Santa Monica residence. Read more View the full article

Not-for-profit Tschutti Heftl has created an alternative sticker album for the FIFA World Cup 2018, featuring player portraits by 32 different artists. Read more View the full article

Mexican architect Abraham Cota Paredes has designed a warehouse-like pavilion for hosting events at a private residence on the outskirts of Guadalajara. Read more View the full article

Brooklyn artist Robin Frohardt has used old plastic bags to create foods such as tomatoes and sushi rolls for an installation in New York's Times Square. Read more View the full article

It's all happening in New York during May, with new city-wide event NYCxDesign running alongside the established International Contemporary Furniture Fair. We've also added five new events to the World Design Guide. (more...) View the full article

The Design Museum Collection App for iPad is now available to download, featuring interviews filmed by Dezeen with Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic about 59 objects from their collection. Download it free from the app store here. In this film we’ve compiled extracts focussing on how design has shaped the way we listen to music over the last century, including iconic devices like the Ecko AD-65 radio from the early 1930s, SK5 Phonosuper from Braun in the 1950s and Sony’s experiments from Walkman to Discman to MiniDisc towards the end of the twentieth century. (more…) View the full article

US-born architect Neave Brown is to be awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects' Royal Gold Medal for 2018 for his contribution to social housing. Read more View the full article