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Renowned chef Massimo Bottura has opened an Ilse Crawford-designed community kitchen in Kensington, the London borough that's been in the headlines this week for the fire at public housing block Grenfell Tower. Read more View the full article

Angular balconies extending from the front of this apartment block in Paris are framed by white concrete screens featuring a perforated pattern that resembles brickwork. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Design China Beijing 2019 will feature over 200 exhibitors, showcasing furniture and lighting by emerging Chinese designers alongside a selection of international brands exhibiting in China for the first time. Read more

Squirrel Park is a scheme of four houses made from converted shipping containers in Oklahoma City, USA, by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. Read more View the full article

Inside this wooden, prefabricated house in Amsterdam by Marc Koehler Architects, an angular black staircase crisscrosses between split levels. Read more View the full article

A Miami Beach residence that takes indoor-outdoor living to the extreme and a Japanese house with a garden dining room feature in our Pinterest roundup of homes that prioritise entertaining in the summer months. Read more View the full article

We’re reporting live from Designed in Hackney Day all day today, featuring talks and performances from the best and most interesting architects, designers and makers in the east London borough of Hackney that Dezeen calls home. We’ll be compiling the best tweets from the event here so check back as the day unfolds. (more…) View the full article

Thinking about making your next career move? Dezeen Recruit has a number of opportunities available across the UK, including junior and senior roles in architecture, interiors and design. Read more View the full article

Opinion: instead of serving up "mundane and predictable" cliches, the world of luxury design should be tempting us with things we never knew we wanted, argues Sam Jacob in his latest column. (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

BIG founder Bjarke Ingels says he is "honestly impressed" by young job applicant Étienne Duval, whose covering letter is an animated rap that has become a YouTube sensation (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

From a trio of mirrors depicting Dubai's arid landscape to a set of sand-cast chairs by female artisans in Sharjah, Dezeen's Natashah Hitti has picked seven designs from Downtown Editions 2019 that celebrate regional traits. Read more View the full article

News: a wristband by San Francisco electronics brand Jawbone that monitors how you move, sleep and eat has now launched in Europe. (more...) View the full article

A series of triangular and rectangular platforms create numerous floor levels inside this house in Osaka, Japan. Read 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

Exterior curtains draw back across the glazed facade of this hillside events venue in Bern, Switzerland, to offer visitors uninterrupted views of the surrounding Alps (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A bubblegum-pink kitchen and stripey watermelon-green floor are some of the features inside this Tokyo apartment, which designer Adam Nathaniel Furman has completed in a sugar-sweet colour palette. Read more View the full article

In this movie by film studio Stephenson/Bishop, architect Carl Turner describes the importance of flexibility in the London house he designed for himself and his partner, which last night was awarded the RIBA Manser Medal 2013 for the best new house in the UK. (more...) View the full article

Universal Design Studio has redesigned the venue for this week's Frieze art fair on New York's Randall's Island, comprising five giant tents oriented to bathe the interior with indirect light. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio Denizen Works has remodelled a north London house, transforming the "small dark bachelor pad" into a family home with a light-filled kitchen and dining space. (more…) View the full article

Footwear designer Tracey Neuls explains why she shies away from “disposable fashion” and reveals that many customers consider her shoes “their best kept secret” in this movie Dezeen filmed at the Designed in Hackney Day PechaKucha, part of a series of talks and discussions we hosted in August. (more…) View the full article

News: the V&A museum in London will show off its latest contemporary furniture acquisitions during London Design Festival next week, including Joris Laarman’s 2006 Bone chaise and mould (pictured above). (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen: architecture and design stories about this year's summer Olympics flooded out as the event commenced in Rio de Janeiro this week, while Kanye West hit the headlines after declaring his desire to work with furniture giant Ikea. (more…) View the full article

Irish studio Grafton Architects have acknowledged the influence of celebrated Brazilian architect Paulo
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Dezeen promotion: entries are now open for the third edition of Ventura Project's Ventura Future showcase at Milan design week, which in 2020 will feature experimental design projects. Read more View the full article