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Milan 2012: weary fair-goers in Milan can relax and recharge at an installation by Studio Toogood at MOST this week, guided through a healing performance by mysterious helpers dressed in white. (more…) View the full article

Design studio Office AIO has arranged partitions inside this pink-hued Beijing coffee shop to frame vignettes of customers enjoying their hot drinks. Read more View the full article

DNK Architecture Group has turned a former furniture factory in Moscow into apartments, replacing prefabricated concrete panel cladding with hand-made bricks. Read more

Designed in Hackney: scribbled faces on fabric masks feature in the latest collection from young designers Leutton Postle, who continue this week’s look at Hackney fashion designers. (more…) View the full article

Thai architect Kulapat Yantrasast was recently chosen to oversee a major renovation of galleries at The Met in New York. In this exclusive interview, he explains why he designs art spaces to be more than white boxes, and credits mentor Tadao Ando for providing a "true education". Read more

Swiss architects Bureau A have created decorative steel gates to discourage nocturnal “illegal activities” in the entrance to their Geneva studio. (more…) View the full article

Clerkenwell Design Week takes place in London next week and Dezeen Watch Store will once again pop up at the Farmiloe Building at 34 St John Street, the event’s main venue. (more…) View the full article

News: architect Frank Gehry has revealed the latest model of his design for a gallery and university complex in Toronto, showing angular volumes replaced with overlapping curves since the initial design. (more...) View the full article

Glass-walled pavilions at a California winery, Apple's new hijab emoji and BIG's latest building all feature in the latest edition of Dezeen Mail, our weekly newsletter. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail › View the full article

A set of roaming artificial islands designed by Marshall Blecher and Studio Fokstrot are set to be built in Copenhagen's harbour. Read more View the full article

A multipurpose building with a skin of chestnut shingles covering its facade was popular last week, so we've created a Pinterest board full of architectural projects featuring facades covered in slices of timber. See our new Pinterest board» Follow Dezeen on Pinterest» View the full article

Holidaymakers can now spend nights sleeping beneath the surface of the ocean at this partially submerged hotel suite in the Zanzibar archipelago (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Following protests about working conditions at well-known museums – like the Marciano Art Foundation and MoMa – Mimi Zeiger says it's time to address architecture's relationship to unfair labour practices. Read more View the full article

New York designer Daniel Arsham and design gallery Friedman Benda have installed a translucent green box to launch futuristic furnishings at this year's Design Miami. Read more View the full article

Local Architecture Network has built a minimum security prison with a perforated metal facade of weathering steel in Nanterre that has a sports court in pastel hues. Read more View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2014: Dutch designer Roderick Vos has created a collection of tables and benches using structural supports with H-shaped profiles, more commonly found in architecture (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has revealed plans to transform a former industrial site in Chicago into a "new urban destination". Read more

Movie: Julia Borghesi of design studio Hassell discusses the hybrid aesthetic of advertising agency Clemenger BBDO's office in Sydney, which topped the office category at last month's Inside Festival. (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

Check out images of all the smallest houses from Dezeen on our latest Pinterest board. Over 12,000 people now follow us on Pinterest – join them here. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » See more stories featuring houses on Dezeen » View the full article

Clerkenwell Design Week 2012: Clerkenwell Design Week is underway and visitors to the main venue arrive through an archway clad in 20,000 wooden hexagons by London designer Giles Miller. (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

Dublin studio GKMP Architects added a pyramid-shaped roof to this compact house in rural Ireland to create some taller rooms inside. (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

Ukrainian design brand Faina looked to ancient depictions of the female form when creating this "cloud-like" armchair, which takes cues from archaeological finds. Read more View the full article