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Amsterdam-based Studio Drift "de-produced" a bicycle and a pencil into the chunks of the materials used to make them for an exhibit at the inaugural Frieze Art Fair in Los Angeles. Read more

This mosque near Istanbul by Emre Arolat Architects, which features cast concrete walls and a "cave-like" prayer hall, has been shortlisted for this year's Design of the Year award (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

One year ago this week we were still presenting some of our favourite projects from Milan’s annual Salone Internazionale del Mobile, which included chairs from a mist-filled showroom, a desk that cascades off the wall and a midnight meal in a darkened apartment. We also featured the zigzag-shaped chair launched there by Zaha Hadid, which no one could work out how to sit on. Meanwhile, architecture stories continued to be popular with our readers, who couldn’t get enough of a split-level apartment filled with nooks and crannies, a staircase encased by faceted wood, and a Swedish cottage with a stark pine interior. Over in the Netherlands, UNStudio revealed images of a to…

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a French-speaking urban designer at OMA in Rotterdam, where the Dutch firm recently completed the pixellated steel and glass Timmerhuis. Read more stories on OMA or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: architect Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham Architecture talks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about the future of books in the digital age in this movie we filmed at the World Architecture Festival earlier this month, where a bookstore he designed in Japan won the prize in the shopping centres category. (more…) View the full article

News: German car brand Audi has announced a new design strategy, bringing the interior and exterior design studios together to encourage faster innovation and stimulate greater dialogue between the teams. "You can't survive if you just depend on one brain to do a complex thing like a car," said Audi head of exterior design Achim Badstübner. (more...) View the full article

The facades of well-known buildings in Paris, New York and Brisbane have been reduced to a series of patterned surfaces and silhouettes in this series of images by French photographer Alexander Jacques (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Cologne 2014: the colour temperature of this series of LED lamps by Rotterdam designer Arnout Meijer can be adjusted to create different moods throughout the day (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Sound waves are visualised and cast in concrete to make the cover for Brussels-based musician Thomas Vaquié's album Ecume. (more…) View the full article

London designer Paul Cocksedge has made a giant chocolate QR code that visitors to The Dock during the London Design Festival can scan to get a free gift (or you could just scan the image in the bottom of this story). (more…) View the full article

This muddy-toned timber house by Graz-based Hammerschmid Pachl Seebacher Architekten is raised on stilts above a sloping site so that it overlooks a swimming pond (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Don’t worry if you smash this vase by Dutch designer Mianne de Vries – a back-up vase is waiting inside. (more…) View the full article

Most ocean plastic starts off in rivers. From bubble curtains to googly-eyed trash wheels, here are four technologies designed to intercept river plastic before it gets to the sea. Read more View the full article

The logos for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games by Japanese graphic designer Kenjiro Sano have been unveiled by the event organisers (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Architecture firm Haworth Tompkins has installed a bright red auditorium amongst the brutalist concrete of London's National Theatre (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Curved elements attach under the legs of this wooden bench by Italian designer Andrea Rekalidis to turn it into a see-saw (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Czech designer Martin Jakobsen has created glowing uranium-glass tumblers, adding to his output of unusual glassware. (more…) View the full article

Korean architects AND imagined this hotel on Geoje Island as a hand of outstretched fingers, with rooms and balconies pointing out in different directions (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Famous for their collaboration on the iconic Pompidou Centre in Paris in 1977 (pictured), Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano both feature as the letter R in our A-Zdvent calendar of architects. Italian architect Piano recently completed an extension to Louis Khan's Kimbell Art Museum in Texas, while Rogers' London firm has just won a competition to design a new centre for social sciences at the London School of Economics. See more architecture by Richard Rogers » See more architecture by Renzo Piano » View the full article

Milan 2013: British designer Jasper Morrison unveils an outdoor chair for Spanish brand Kettal at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile today. (more...) View the full article

VDF products fair: woven leather straps form the seat of the MT Bench, which Japanese designer Shinsaku Miyamoto has created for Ritzwell. Read more View the full article

A pair of cabins heated by a sauna stove, a zero-impact reflective cabin in the Swiss Alps and treetop cabins on stilts are among this year's 10 standout cabins choosen by Karen Anderson, as we continue our review of 2019. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: London's River Cafe restaurant, designed by architect Richard Rogers, has launched its annual limited-edition gift boxes containing a selection of the same Italian ingredients used daily in its kitchen. Read more View the full article

An exhibition in Hyéres, France, features a decade of work by designer Philippe Malouin, including a cast-concrete stool imprinted by a bottom and an armchair made entirely from foam. Read more View the full article

Mesh Labs is launching Kosmos, a collection of ceramic tableware, as part of the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article