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A new type of hospital door handle by British studio Agency of Design transforms a hotbed for germs into a sanitising device, with a sensor that monitors how often it is used. (more...) View the full article

Norm Architects of Denmark used industrial pendant lights, woollen blankets and reclaimed wood to create rustic Scandinavian dining rooms at Höst, a new restaurant in Copenhagen. (more…) View the full article

Architect Sergio Rojo has renovated a dilapidated nineteenth-century cultural centre to create a hostel for weary travellers on the Way of St James pilgrimage route in northern Spain (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Five wooden cabins fan out around a site on Tokyo Bay to form this capsule accommodation by Japanese office Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects. (more...) View the full article

Garments hang from a handmade oak structure inside fashion boutique Hostem's pop-up store, which was inspired by the works of American artist Oscar Tuazon (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London designers JamesPlumb have installed an antique church pew to create an aged interior for menswear brand Hostem’s new shop in Shoreditch, London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London fashion store Hostem has launched its first guesthouse – a refurbished Georgian house with furniture from Pierre Jeanneret, Faye Toogood and Max Lamb, and accessories that guests can buy (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dublin creative agency Boys and Girls has installed a new reception desk supported by giant Jenga blocks at one end and balloons at the other. (more…) View the full article

A new timber and concrete cafe cantilevers out towards the swimming pool at this 1970s hotel in Portugal that has been renovated by Campos Costa Arquitectos (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: French architects Ateliers Jean Nouvel and Belgian studio MDW Architecture have collaborated on designs for a new police headquarters on a former police cavalry site in Charleroi, Belgium, which now also accommodates a dance school. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: annual hotel design event Sleep is set to return to London's Business Design Centre next month. (more...) View the full article

Dutch design brand Droog has opened a hotel in Amsterdam where guests who venture out from their rooms can attend lectures, visit exhibitions and shops or relax in a ”fairy-tale garden” without leaving the building (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This stop-frame movie by American photographer James Florio documents the day and night-time scenes at Elqui Domos, a hotel for stargazers in Chile's Elqui Valley. (more...) View the full article

Stuttgart photographer Zooey Braun has sent us his images of this hotel in Ramsen, Germany, by Naumann Architektur, with tree trunks in guests’ rooms. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Georgian hospitality group Adjara has made a name for itself converting brutalist Soviet-era buildings into boutique hotels, including the award-winning Stamba Hotel in Tbilisi. It has also helped nurture a new generation of Georgian creative talents. Read more

Marble furnishings, lagoon-coloured walls and arched doorways are among the features that Dorothée Meilichzon has incorporated in the interiors of this Venice hotel, which is meant to mirror its surroundings. Read more

One of the rooms at this year's Icehotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden, was designed by Pinpin Studio to look like the laboratory where Frankenstein's monster was brought into being (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Engineers from WSP are working with architects at Innovation Imperative to create a carbon neutral modular hotel made from groups of concrete pods. Read more View the full article

Greek studio Kapsimalis Architects has turned a cluster of former homes, barns and cellars on the island of Santorini into a hotel with rooms in caves. Read more View the full article

This cabin made from scaffolding is one of 22 temporary hotel rooms that popped up around Mannheim, Germany, as part of the Hotel Shabby Shabby event for the city's Theater der Welt festival (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Austrian studio BWM Architekten und Partner has completed a hotel in central Vienna with big oval windows all over its brown mosaic facade. (more…) View the full article

Architecture studio Hou de Sousa has built three volumes, constructed rebar and covered in bright cords, to form "gateways, apertures and seating" in front of New York City's Flatiron Building for this holiday season. Read more View the full article

Undulating timber panels line the walls and ceiling of a Japanese hotel room renovated by Touhoku University students. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Shanghai architects Polifactory have developed a concept for a rammed earth house that generates energy from a lake on its roof. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: there are no horizontal crossbeams to interrupt the vertically striped wooden batons that clad this house outside Munich by German architects Titus Bernhard. (more…) View the full article