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News: Cadbury has won the right to stop rival chocolate makers using its signature colour, Pantone 2685C purple, on their wrappers. (more…) View the full article

Architects Liani and Jan Douglas have transformed a century-old house in Green Point, Cape Town, into a modern home where they can show off their distinctive furniture designs. Read more View the full article

Space Popular is exploring how virtual reality and mass production are set to disrupt architecture. Founders Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg talk Dezeen through six of their experiments. Read more View the full article

News: People will soon have up to ten miniature devices on their bodies and clothes monitoring their health, organising their social lives and responding to their emotional needs, according to Gadi Amit, a leading designer of wearable devices (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Architects and designers can't design ways to protect mass terror attacks in America's public spaces, but they should join the fight to eliminate the problem at its cause, argues Aaron Betsky. Read more

Architect Bernardo Richter took cues from a holiday home by Alvar Aalto when designing this brick house in Curitiba, Brazil. Read more View the full article

French lighting manufacturer Sammode has relaunched a collection designed in the 1950s by Pierre Guariche, including a standing lamp with a perforated "sail-like" diffuser. Read more View the full article

Landscape architecture firm West 8 has added rolling hills with playgrounds and art installations across Governors Island in New York harbour (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Infographic and research project Anatomy of an AI System, which lays bear the consequences of voice-assistant devices has won Design of the Year 2019. Read more View the full article

Cities haven't been designed to suit the lives of women, according to British writer Caroline Criado Perez, whose book Invisible Women argues that much architecture and design does not work properly for females. Read more View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: here’s a slideshow of the winner in the villa category at the World Architecture Festival, which is a house on a working sheep farm on North Bruny Island, Tasmania, by John Wardle Architects. (more…) View the full article

A spectrum of vivid hues were incorporated throughout a mixed-use building in Chicago by John Ronan Architects that contains a public library at ground level and low-cost senior housing up above. Read more

Latvian designer Anna Butele used fluorescent paint and marker pens to write inspirational messages across the walls at the new office of her interior design firm Annvil in Riga (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Opinion: when it comes to headline-grabbing proposals, Bjarke Ingels and BIG are becoming increasingly hard to beat – and increasingly divisive among critics. Aaron Betsky explains why he's part of the BIG fan club. (more…) View the full article

The resident of a compact apartment in Madrid demonstrates how she can rearrange walls and pull furniture out of the ceiling in this movie by photographer and filmmaker Miguel de Guzmán. (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

Three-dimensional shapes are cut out from areas of this artist residence in Upstate New York by Steven Holl Architects, which claims the house can sleep five guests despite having "zero bedrooms". Read more 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

Hand-moulded ceramic modules are balanced on top of each other to form structures close to two metres high, in this homeware collection by Russian architect Anastasia Tikhomirova. Read more View the full article

Hammerschmid Pachl Seebacher Architekten has added a contemporary extension to a traditional farmhouse in Austria, featuring rough-sawn spruce cladding and a folded fibre-cement roof (+ slideshow). (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

We continue our high-tech architecture series with a profile of Richard Rogers, the architect of two of the movement's best-known inside out buildings, Centre Pompidou and the Lloyd's building. Read more View the full article

Polish designer Boguslaw Sliwinski has created a new series of plates to encourage people to play with their food, this time allowing diners to recreate sporting action with their vegetables. (more…) View the full article

Facebook has launched a new branding for its subsidiary companies, which comprises an all-capital typeface that changes colour depending on the service offered. Read more View the full article

American imaging company Kodak is venturing into the smartphone market with a handset that puts photographic capabilities first. Read more View the full article