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A single piece of flat, flexible plastic serves as a whole set of measuring spoons in this invention by Polygons Design. Read more View the full article

Brooklyn's Bushwick neighbourhood is set to receive a vast housing development designed as a "European village" by architecture firm ODA New York (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Diners at this sushi restaurant on the Italian coast sit inside house-shaped booths, based on the angled silhouettes of stalls in Tokyo's old street markets (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

When asked to draw up plans for a cycle-hire shop in southern China, Dutch studio NL Architects thought it would be fun to put a velodrome on the roof. (more…) View the full article

This cutlery by Italian designer Gio Tirotto looks more like a set of workshop tools. (more…) View the full article

Despite being surrounded by electricity pylons, this hillside cabin in Japan by San Francisco firm Anderson Anderson Architecture generates all its own energy and heating using photovoltaic panels and a ground-sourced heat pump (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: British architect David Chipperfield has been named as the architecture laureate for the 2013 Praemium Imperiale arts prize, awarded annually by the Japan Art Association. (more...) View the full article

Product news: a tap presented by French designer Philippe Starck in New York this week uses half as much water as regular taps. (more...) View the full article

Architect Sou Fujimoto has designed a series of abstract bookshelves made from thin steel rods, which he based on 19th-century ironwork. Read more View the full article

Balconies with adjustable covers pepper the brick facade of the Habitat for Orphan Girls designed by ZAV Architects in Khansar, Iran. 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

Malessa Studio's wooden NEST crate unpacks to create a bed, desk, bench and shelf designed in response to the increasingly nomadic lifestyle of young urbanites. Read more View the full article

We should be wary of "handbag architecture", design buildings that are reusable, and embrace micro homes says RIBA Royal Gold Medal 2019 winner Nicholas Grimshaw. Read more

Milan 2014: a series of talks will launch this afternoon in Nike's Aero-static dome at Palazzo Clerici, forming part of the FOMO algorithmic publishing project organised by Joseph Grima with Dezeen. (more...) View the full article

Architects should embrace ideas of cruising and sex in public places in their designs, say the curators of an exhibition at ArkDes in Stockholm. Read more View the full article

In our latest competition, we've teamed up with the Alpaga chalet in Megève, France, to offer readers the chance to win a two night stay for two people and dinner in the hotel's Michelin star restaurant. Read more View the full article

Clerkenwell Design Week 2012: British design duo BarberOsgerby talk about designing the London 2012 Olympic Torch in this movie we filmed last week at the Vitra showroom during Clerkenwell Design Week. (more…) View the full article

Japanese studio yHa Architects has inserted a steel cuboid, wall and stairs inside this former rice mill in Saga Prefecture to create a sake tasting and exhibition space. Read more View the full article

This concrete Second World War bunker in Hamburg has been converted into a renewable energy plant and visitor centre by urban development company IBA Hamburg (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

OMA's New York office has revealed the design for its first project in Brooklyn: a pair of residential towers shaped like "a ziggurat and its inverse". Read more

Design studio Instant Hutong created changing maps of Beijing’s disappearing ancient alleyways using lenticular printed panels as part of Beijing Design Week. (more…) View the full article

Comments update: the developer of New York's Two World Trade Center tower is torn between BIG's design and the original proposal by Foster + Partners, prompting readers to take sides. (more…) View the full article

Artist Max Siedentopf caused outrage with his depiction of people wearing various everyday items as coronavirus masks. Here are five of the artist's provocative works. Read more View the full article

Swedish brand Void has launched a watch that is only seven millimetres thick, which is now available to buy from Dezeen Watch Store. Read more View the full article

Chinese firm Aim Architecture sought to strike a balance between modern and Jazz Age Shanghai with this office and showroom for property developer Soho China (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article