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News: the owners of the Santiago Calatrava-designed Ysios winery in Spain have launched legal action against the Spanish architect demanding he pays part of the £1.7 million needed to fix the building's leaky roof. (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

These cabinets by Esrawe Studio are based on the process of making mezcal – a traditional Mexican alcohol. Read more View the full article

London Design Festival 2013: Dezeen Watch Store will be popping up at designjunction in central London from tomorrow. The store will debut a selection of men's watches from the new Nixon S13-3 collection. (more...) View the full article

East London studio IWANT has overhauled the birth certificate to bring it into the digital age and make it more personal. (more...) View the full article

This modular container by architects Nilsson Pflugfelder of London and Berlin can be reconfigured to create a workspace, artist’s residence, archive or meeting area as required by its host, the FLACC Workplace for Visual Artists in Genk, Belgium. (more…) View the full article

Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs is moving forward with its ambition to create a smart neighbourhood in Toronto, after addressing a number of "critical issues" in its initial scheme. Read more View the full article

This week on Dezeen, a man was hospitalised after falling into an art installation by Anish Kapoor, Adidas unveiled a concept trainer that mimics the feeling of running on sand, and the Dezeen Awards shortlists were unveiled. Read more View the full article

Airbnb's offices in London, Sao Paulo and Singapore include features like an indoor village green, bleacher-style seating and a reception desk modelled on a front porch (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Studio Alexander Fehre used different wall and ceiling finishes to define the spaces of this 45-square-metre flat in central London. (more…) View the full article

Check out the best images of concrete from Dezeen on our latest Pinterest board. Over 17,000 people now follow us on Pinterest – join them here. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » See more stories featuring concrete on Dezeen » View the full article

This week on Dezeen: we reported that Norwegian customs seized and obliterated 100 replicas of Danish designer Hans J Wegner's Round Chair this week, and BIG revealed a terraced block of apartments in Stockholm (pictured). (more…) View the full article

This school building in Norway was designed by Swedish firm White Arkitekter with copper walls and a zigzagging green roof to reference the forms and materials of a nearby historic industrial town. (more...) View the full article

Zaha Hadid Architects has designed a masterplan for Tallinn's port, boasting a new cruise ship terminal as well as office and housing districts intended to spark regeneration around the waterfront of the Estonian capital. Read more View the full article

Over 10 million users browse our Pinterest boards every month, but what are they looking at? We round up the top five most-popular pins in November. Read more View the full article

Designer Anda Andrei explains how the interiors of the 11 Howard hotel are designed to age over time in this movie Dezeen filmed for the AHEAD Awards in New York. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: British designer Tom Dixon and brands Vitra, Moroso and Magis will all be exhibiting at the Warsaw Home international trade fair, which returns this October. Read more View the full article

Craig Green and JW Anderson are among the eight designers who created fresh takes on the puffer jacket for Moncler's extensive 2020 Genius collection at Milan Fashion Week. Read 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

Japanese architects Junya Ishigami + Associates and Dutch studio MAKS have won a competition to co-design a visitor centre for a nineteenth century park in the north of the Netherlands. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2016: curving lines of black granite form this shelving system by Zaha Hadid, unveiled in Milan by Italian brand Citco a month after the Pritzker Prize-winning architect died unexpectedly (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

RAU Architects and Ro&Ad Architects have designed the egg-shaped Tij Observatory for the Scheelhoek Nature Reserve in Stellendam, the Netherlands. Read more

Dezeen promotion: furniture designers including Katie Walker (above), Rebecca Scott and Charlene Mullen will exhibit at Decorex International 2012, which takes place in London from 23 to 26 September 2012. (more…) View the full article

Five years ago Foster + Partners unveiled ambitious proposals for a “zero carbon, zero waste” development in Abu Dhabi to be planned like an ancient walled city and OMA designed a Death Star-like convention centre, also for the United Arab Emirates. Andrea Salvetti showed chairs that look like nests, cupboards resembling giant logs, super-sized eggs and a giant filigree mushroom. We also showed our readers what we thought might have been the best new chair from Milan and published a set of bird houses designed to look like little churches. In London, students from the Royal College of Art exhibited knuckledusters that leave messages on skin, plates for arguing couples t…

Dulux chose Tranquil Dawn as its colour of the year for 2020, but something bolder would have better represented the year ahead, says Michelle Ogundehin. Read more