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Brooklyn design duo Leta and Wade are out to show how design can be more fun. The pair talk Dezeen through five of their favourite projects, ranging from a series of idiosyncratic couple portraits to an alternative Valentine's Day party. Read more

Italian architect Renzo Piano has designed an oval-shaped condominium tower that is wrapped in terraces on the waterfront in Miami, Florida. Read more View the full article

To celebrate World Book Day, we've rounded up every bookshop ever published on Dezeen – from SelgasCano's concept store based on the fictional Library of Babel to a rainbow display in Rio, where books are arranged by colour rather than by title. Browse all our bookshops » View the full article

Brazilian designers Humberto and Fernando Campana have created limited-edition versions of their signature soft-toy seats using designs by American artist Kaws. Read more

The first part of Heatherwick Studio's renovation of a former grain silo building in Cape Town's harbour has been completed, with the opening of a hotel featuring bulging windows. Read more View the full article

Dezeen archive: we're currently in the Big Apple for the International Contemporary Furniture Fair as part of our Dezeen and MINI World Tour, so we've rounded up our stories from the city that never sleeps. See all architecture and design in New York City » See all our archive stories » View the full article

Product news: Paris design studio A+A Cooren has designed a table and a console with branching metal legs for French brand La Redoute. (more...) View the full article

This kit launched by Belgian designer Laurence Humier includes sets of containers filled with materials that children can mix together to learn simple chemical reactions. (more...) View the full article

Prolific fashion designer Virgil Abloh has created a capsule collection in collaboration with Paris's Musée du Louvre that includes tee-shirts and hoodies decorated with paintings by Leonardo da Vinci. Read more View the full article

This headquarters for an oil and gas company in Mexico City features a square pool of reflective oil in the centre of the lobby (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The new Melbourne home of the Australian Institute of Architects is a 22-storey tower by architecture firm Lyons with a sculptural facade that breaks down into staircases and balconies (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: British curator Beatrice Galilee has been appointed to a newly created role as curator of architecture and design at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. (more...) View the full article

Maison&Objet 2015: Basque designer Jean Louis Iratzoki has moulded the shell of a chair from a plant-based polymer that is fully recyclable and biodegradable (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A small late-Victorian dwelling in Portland, Oregon, has been transformed into a modern home with a monochrome red steel and wood exterior (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

More showers! These hybrid shower-lights were created by Japanese designers Nendo for bathroom brand Axor and unveiled last week alongside the multi-headed shower by Front (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Delta Light has released The Lighting Bible Anniversary Edition, showcasing its latest designs in celebration of its 30th anniversary. Read more

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a 3D designer to join the British Museum in London, which boasts a new conservation and gallery wing designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. More › View the full article

Opinion: on his return from Dutch Design Week, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs argues that "something special is happening" in Eindhoven, a dowdy post-industrial sprawl that was recently named "the most inventive city in the world". (more...) View the full article

Danish architects 3XN have completed a star-shaped regional headquarters for the United Nations in Copenhagen - complete with a spectacular staircase rising through the centre of the atrium (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A chequered facade of timber and glass surrounds one of two new neighbourhood libraries by Adjaye Associates to open in Washington DC. (more…) View the full article

Anemone tentacles moving beneath the surface of the ocean influenced the latticed facade of this student housing block by French studio Atelier Fernandez & Serres at an oceanic observatory in the eastern Pyrénées (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A pitched roof and six walls appear as a single block of concrete around these two residences in Geneva by Swiss architects clavienrossier (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architects Herzog & de Meuron have carved some of the spaces of their unfinished Elbphilharmonie concert hall from layered blocks of foam and suspended them from the ceiling of the Arsenale for the Venice Architecture Biennale. (more…) View the full article

Ljubljana-based studio Enota has replaced an outdoor swimming pool with a pool covered in a rugged landscape of geometric, funnel-like roof structures at the Terme Olimia Spa in Slovenia. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Screen: this animation from our series by architectural filmakers Factory Fifteen shows a swarm of equipment associated with British postal service Royal Mail colonising the sides of a building and configuring themselves into a temporary automated sorting office. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article