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These conceptual images by Spanish studio Espai MGR show impossible Lego structures filling vacant neighbourhood plots in Valencia. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Creative agency StyleMood has transformed a 19th-century firehouse in New York City into this cosy members' club. Read more

Facet Studio have completed the interior of a vintage shop in Osaka, Japan, using cedarwood, rice paper and linen. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Feature: the first branch of Habitat opened its doors 50 years ago today, changing the British public's relationship with furniture and homeware forever. But can the shop that brought flat-pack furniture, the duvet and the wok to the UK make a come back, asks Dezeen editor Anna Winston (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A trio of dome-shaped structures enclose the Taoyuan Sewage Treatment Project in northern Taiwan, designed by Habitech Architects to resemble mountains, complete with a waterfall and fish pond. Read more View the full article

Milan 2012: this week visitors to La Rinascente department store in Milan have been trading souvenirs from the moon, making plastic from plants and learning how to download a house, courtesy of Hacked Lab curated by Beatrice Galilee. (more…) View the full article

Fragmented wood-clad walls enclose outdoor patios that wrap this remote Oregon house by local firm Hacker Architects. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Michael Young’s brand new Hacker watch is now available at Dezeen Watch Store, both online and at our Christmas shop The Temporium from tomorrow until 24 December at 65 Monmouth Street, Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9DG. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London-based company Hackney Botanical has created a collection of seven coffee tables that double up as "indoor gardens" and use found, antique sash-windows as table tops. Read more View the full article

A glazed extension helped London-based Applied Studio brighten the light-starved interiors of this Hackney home, which boasts black-timber decor details and a sauna in the back garden. Read more

Here are some photographs of the Stanton Williams-designed Hackney Marshes Centre, which provides facilities for London’s amateur football leagues and won an RIBA award last week. (more…) View the full article

Zaha Hadid has paid tribute to "inspirational and enlightening" late German architect Frei Otto, while Norman Foster said Otto's "extraordinary structures altered the nature of architectural form in the 20th century". (more…)

News: Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Frank Gehry and Bernard Tschumi have pledged support to a campaign to prevent the "barbaric" part-demolition of a school by Austrian Modernist architect Helmut Richter. (more...) View the full article

Skincare brand Haeckels has built a traditional wood-burning sauna on the sands of Margate beach, in a bid to "reacquaint the community" with the health-giving properties of their local waters. Read more View the full article

Cologne 2013: Italian designer Luca Nichetto has created a lounge chair with a folding backrest for Finnish design brand One Nordic. (more...) View the full article

Israeli office Chyutin Architects have completed a student centre for the University of Haifa, protruding out from the side of Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Israeli designer Haim Evgi has created versions of Anglepoise lamps in solid oak using traditional carpentry techniques. (more...) 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

Royal College of Art graduates Azusa Murakami and Alexander Groves have made a collection of spectacles from human hair. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Polish studio moomoo architects have introduced mirrored columns, slanted walls and a clothes shop to the interior of this hair salon in Warsaw, Poland. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architects Sides Core have left the grey wool insulating material exposed on the ceiling of this hair salon, wrapping light fixtures like vines along pipes and suspending light bulbs at different levels (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Amsterdam designer Monique Goossens has made a typeface with strands of human hair. (more...) View the full article

Japanese architects Maker have completed a hair salon featuring gauze partitions and booths in untreated wood. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designers Jack Beveridge and Lizzie Reid have adapted the flocking process to make a hairbrush that's coated in human hair. (more...) View the full article

Portuguese architects and hairdressers have collaborated on these coiffures inspired by architectural structures. (more…) View the full article