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Design Indaba 2016: the 1996 ad campaign that encouraged British housewives to throw away their fussy furnishings helped transform attitudes to design, according to ad executive Naresh Ramchandani (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Architecture studio Morrow + Lorraine has been given the go ahead to build a set of clifftop holiday homes on the Isle of Portland, England (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has designed this year's Milan design week installation for fashion brand COS, which will feature cones of light created by spotlights. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Ventura Lambrate has revealed the participants who will exhibit under one of its themes, Thinking Traditions and Academies, for its event during Milan design week from 12 to 17 April 2016 (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Design Indaba 2016: the car industry is so obsessed with new technology that it is forgetting about people, according to Dutch designers Miriam van der Lubbe and Niels van Eijk. (more…) View the full article

Austrian architects Winkler + Ruck Architekten and Ferdinand Certov have been selected to create a "floating" roof extension for Vienna's Wien Museum. (more…) View the full article

Spanish studio SelgasCano has completed a concept bookstore in east London, with handmade wooden bookshelves based on the fictional Library of Babel and a strict no-phone policy (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Inside Festival 2015: Casey Vallance of Cox Rayner Architects explains how the firm used natural materials to create a calming environment inside a dentist training facility in Brisbane, Australia, in this exclusive movie. (more…) View the full article

Architecture studio Freadman White has remodelled a 1930s Melbourne house that was extended in the 1970s, and created a new room featuring an angular roof (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This retirement residence by Schwartz and Architecture features a sheltered patio with a large oval skylight, which frames views over Silicon Valley, California (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Metallic yarns, colourful tinsel and sequin patterns were combined to create the 1980s-influenced "daytime disco" outfits shown by UK studio Sibling during London Fashion Week yesterday. (more…) View the full article

Pale grey bricks are arranged to create a herringbone pattern across the facade of this housing and studio block in New Cross, southeast London. (more…) View the full article

Stockholm 2016: Canadian studio MSDS has unveiled a lighting and furniture range, which includes a chair based on a design that dates back to the 1600s (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London fashion designer Sadie Williams has put a spin on vintage winter-sports attire with metallic textiles for her Autumn Winter 2016 collection, presented during London Fashion Week (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

South African studio Metropolis has completed a concrete pavilion in the grounds of a house in Cape Town, featuring sheltered seating and dining areas with views of nearby Table Mountain (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architecture firm APA has transformed a London warehouse space into an apartment for two theatre and film directors, adding a raw steel volume that houses a movie archive and a bathroom (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Stockholm 2016: Swedish designer Monica Förster has partnered with brand Erik Jørgensen to create a coffee table to be used with her Savannah seating range for the Danish furniture company. (more…) View the full article

A towering steel Holocaust memorial in Italy was popular this week, so we've revisited the best commemorative architecture published on Dezeen. Visit our latest Pinterest board to explore more examples, including a concentration camp house shrouded in glass, a fan-shaped stone structure in Japan and a tribute to suspected witches burnt at the stake in 17th-century Norway. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more memorials in our archive View the full article

The glazed public areas of this cultural centre on the French island of Corsica are sandwiched between a solid concrete base and an upper storey clad in perforated golden metal (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London designer Michael Anastassiades has created a range of wine glasses that have to rest inside metal bowls in order to stand up. (more…) View the full article

Music: director and choreographer Trish Sie tells Dezeen about how she worked with US band OK Go to create the gravity-defying stunts in the music video for the track Upside Down & Inside Out (+ interview). (more…) View the full article

In order to create a "silent" interior for this Lithuanian coffee shop, designer Inga Pieslikaitė paired birch wood furniture with poured concrete flooring and white-painted walls (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Virgin Galactic has unveiled an updated version of its commercial SpaceShipTwo craft, the Virgin Spaceship Unity, which will begin renewed testing in California and New Mexico following a fatal crash in 2015. (more…) View the full article

Tel Aviv architect Kedem Shinar drew on Israel's Bauhaus architecture and her training in Japan to create the clean lines of this bright white house in Carmey Yossef (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen: David Chipperfield's proposal for a new east London home and studio for British artist Tracey Emin was refused planning permission this week, while fellow artist Damien Hirst hit the headlines after creating the interiors for his own restaurant in the city. (more…) View the full article