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Five years ago this week Olafur Eliasson and Snøhetta unveiled their proposals for the 2007 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion and Herzog & de Meuron announced plans to create a new football stadium for English team Portsmouth FC that were abandoned shortly after. OMA started work on a study into urban growth in the Gulf, the results of which were presented recently as part of an exhibition documenting the firm’s working processes and lighting designer Stuart Haygarth designed a children’s nightlight filled with toys for a charity auction. Elsewhere on Dezeen we published even more high-profile projects that we’d seen in Milan, which included door handles designed by Zaha …

News: British firm Wilkinson Eyre Architects has won a competition to design a $1.5 billion hotel skyscraper on the harbourfront in Sydney, Australia. (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

More hidden furniture: French designer Paul Menand has created a stool that hides two others inside it. (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen, RIBA revealed the six projects shortlisted for this year's Stirling Prize, while IKEA unveiled its new collaboration with Hay. Read more View the full article

News: British architect Norman Foster has unveiled a concept to build a network of elevated pathways above London's railways to create safe car-free cycling routes, following 14 cyclist deaths on the city's streets in 2013. (more...) View the full article

Carmody Groarke, RE-ST and TRANS Architectuur Stedenbouw have designed an extension to the design museum in Ghent, Belgium, which will form a link between its existing galleries. Read more View the full article

We're inviting you to step inside renovated Barbican flats with our new Pinterest board, including pale minimalist aesthetics and colourful walls that feature inside homes within the brutalist estate. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › Read 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

Super Mario and the Cheshire Cat are among the characters featured in these renderings produced by Austrian studio Madame Mohr as part of a competition proposal for a new subway line in Vienna (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Ploypan Theerachai of THINKK Studio has designed a series of three upholstered space dividers weighted down with marble slabs. (more…) View the full article

Exposed brick walls, rugged wooden ceiling beams and chunky wooden staircases with zigzagging undersides feature inside this office block in London, recently renovated by Amin Taha Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Zaha Hadid 1950-2016: Following the death of Zaha Hadid, we've updated our Pinterest board dedicated to her buildings to include more of the Pritzker-Prize winning architect's ambitious and critically-acclaimed work. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more stories about Zaha Hadid 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

Visitors to an office-themed installation by Aberrant Architecture were invited to take a spin on an office chair below a ceiling suspended just 1.5 metres above the ground (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

A selection of our Nava watches are now further reduced in our end of summer sale at Dezeen Watch Store. Wherever (above) designed by Denis Guidone tells time in two different time zones at once by featuring two separate hour hands. Now only £60.00 (UK and EU) or £50.00 (rest of world). Buy now » (more…) View the full article

Stockholm 2014: Swedish firm Note Design Studio has designed a series of colourful ash side tables for Swedish brand Fogia. (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

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

Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati has designed a concept for a battery-powered wardrobe purifier that uses ozone to remove bacteria and viruses from the user's clothes. Read more View the full article

Milan's Salone del Mobile furniture fair looks set to be cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to multiple reports in the Italian press. Read more View the full article

Dutch creative agency The Stone Twins did away with the usual imagery and photos when asked to design this postage stamp, using only words to tell a short story. (more...) View the full article

News: the shortlist for awards at this year's World Architecture Festival in Singapore features over 250 projects, including a floating theatre in China, a giraffe house in New Zealand, a research station in Antarctica and a whirlpool-shaped aquarium in Denmark. (more...) View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Eunhee Jo has designed a tactile speaker with a fabric control panel and a speaker that moves to the music (+ movie). (more…) View the full article