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Milan 2012: more about Hackney designers in Milan last week – this tangle of bent rods and random objects is actually a doorbell by Dutch Shoreditch-based designer Tord Boontje that was shown at the Ventura Lambrate design district. (more…) View the full article

Continuing our series celebrating Palm Springs Modernism Week, we're examining Hope Residence, the home that American architect John Lautner designed for comedian Bob Hope to resemble a volcano. Read more View the full article

Five projects are in the running for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2017, including a London housing scheme by Alison Brooks and a church building in Ribe by Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects that shelters 12th-century ruins. Read more View the full article

Chinese 3D-printer manufacturer Creality is fabricating thousands of buckles that make face masks less painful to wear for medical workers treating coronavirus patients. Read more View the full article

Among the 11 recipients of this year's AIA Small Projects awards are student-designed cabins in Colorado, a house overlooking a lake in Washington and toilet blocks clad with weathering steel in Texas. Read more View the full article

Phoenix architecture studio The Ranch Mine based this canal-side home on the missions built in the American West over 200 years ago. Read more View the full article

Canadian studio DesignAgency incorporated "soft and graceful flourishes" into NeueHouse's latest co-working location that occupies a full floor in a 1890s structure in Downtown Los Angeles. Read more View the full article

Comments update: Tony Ash, managing director of furniture brand Vitra, says designers need protecting from copycats – but readers aren't sure that cheap rip-offs are the design industry's biggest problem. (more…) View the full article

Belgian design studio Pinkeye has combined a laundrette, a cafe and a hairdressing salon to create a place where customers can get a drink or a haircut while waiting for their washing. (more...) View the full article

A glazed cut through a barn-style gabled house set into a hill in rural Poland by Kropka Studio has views of its mountain surroundings. Read more View the full article

Women-focused co-working company The Wing has used a combination of neutral tones and pops of black for its Williamsburg space, which contrasts the colourful aesthetic of its other outposts. Read more View the full article

The Brinery is a home fermentation vessel designed by a team of Royal College of Art students to kickstart interest in the "forgotten" process of preserving vegetables. Read more View the full article

British architect Nicholas Grimshaw explains the impact that limited resources had on the housing block he designed with Terry Farrell, in this exclusive video interview created for our high-tech architecture series. Read more View the full article

Canadian designer Geof Ramsay has used the notion of staircases that double as seating areas to create a wooden bench from a set of steps. (more...) View the full article

Architecture studio Formafantasma has created a display for the Rijksmuseum's Baroque in Rome exhibition that will be taken apart and recycled afterwards. Read more View the full article

In our latest competition, we've teamed up with Florentine Kitchen Knives to offer our readers the chance to customise their own pair of culinary knives. Read more View the full article

Five years ago this week, Zaha Hadid unveiled designs for a private house with a lookout tower in a forest near Moscow and OMA were commissioned to design a 36-storey residential tower in Singapore. The whole Dezeen team was on holiday (there were fewer of us back then) so we featured projects from the first book by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs, Twenty-First Century Design, including Marcel Wanders’ Airborne Snotty Vases, and the Millau Viaduct by Foster & Partners. See all our stories from March 2007 » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Parts of the mountain landscape extend into this house in southeast China, which was planned by designer Xu Fu-Min to offer its residents a peaceful retreat from city life (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava's vast ribbed structure that soars over the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in New York is captured in these images by British photography duo Hufton + Crow (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architect Renzo Piano has replaced the auditorium destroyed during the 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila, Italy, with a flat-pack building comprising three wooden cubes. (more...) View the full article

Danish practice Norm Architects has employed sand-coloured walls and earth-hued furnishings throughout this home near Copenhagen to echo the colour palette of the rugged coastal landscape. Read more View the full article

Our big news this week is Dezeen featuring in Apple’s launch movie for the iPhone 5. The story was picked up by MacRumours last night and was so popular it knocked our servers out for a moment. (more…) View the full article

London studio Doshi Levien has created two contrasting textiles for Danish brand Kvadrat – an opaque upholstery fabric with a tactile pattern and a lightweight translucent curtain. Read more View the full article

Sri Lankan practice Zowa Architects has used bamboo canes to shroud the glazed walls of this boutique hotel in Uttarakhand, India, which cantilevers out to give optimal views of the Himalayas. Read more View the full article

A grid of red sandstone panels dominates every side of this university library in Katowice, Poland, by architects HS99 (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article