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Design studio Doone Silver Kerr turned a stack of used shipping containers into a hotel and wine bar with a geometric facade of welded fins that function as sunshades. Read more View the full article

Dorte Mandrup has released visuals of The Whale, a viewpoint for whale watching that will resemble a giant rock outcrop within the Arctic Circle on the northern coast of Norway. Read more View the full article

New York studio Pelle has created a low table made from pieces of solid aluminium that are milled to a tolerance of one thousandth of an inch and fixed together using traditional Japanese joinery techniques. Read more View the full article

As London's Geffrye Museum sets to reopen as the Museum of the Home for summer 2020, director Sonia Solicari explains why she thinks the history of interiors is "absolutely relevant" in contemporary society. Read more View the full article

Brazilian architecture firm Studio MK27 has created this short sci-fi animation that imagines a city in 2100 with drone-powered flying homes, 3D-printed food, and replaceable body organs. Read more View the full article

Sportswear brand Adidas has once again teamed up with environmental initiative Parley for the Oceans to release an updated version of its Terrex hiking boot, which is made using recycled ocean plastic. Read more View the full article

This week on Dezeen, designers created face shields, mask holders and an emergency hospital to help combat the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio Atelier Espaço P2 has refurbished this house in Ansião, Portugal, inserting wood-lined interiors into a building that has been in the owner's family for three generations. Read more View the full article

White membrane stretches over the curved rooftop of Jiunvfeng Study, a mountainside visitor centre built by Gad Line+ Studio above Dongximen Village in Shangdong, China. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: US manufacturer Milliken has updated its Crafted Series carpet collection by introducing a third tile design and twelve new colour choices. Read more View the full article

French designer Ludovic Renson has designed a collection of children’s furniture made of wood and felt. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Alberese stones and Carrara marble are some of the Italian materials architects Emanuela Frattini Magnusson and Pietro Todeschini used for the interiors of this Tuscan holiday home. Read more View the full article

Dutch designer Bam Geenen of Studio Geenen has designed a chair using hanging chains to determine its form. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: German architect Günter Behnisch, founder of Behnisch Architekten, and has died aged 88. Via sueddeutsche.de </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Today we’re launching a Twitter concierge service to help readers navigate the London Design Festival. If you’re looking for tips or directions, we’ll be on hand to help you out via our @dezeen Twitter account. Later today we’ll be tweeting details of two parties our readers are invited to, so start following us now! (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) is to close as a result of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport withdrawing its funding - The Architects’ Journal </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This wood-clad house perched on rocky terrain in Victoria, Australia, was designed by Australian practice Farnan Findlay Architects and features two separate volumes joined by a central walkway. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Faceted wooden panels divide the interior of this house in Kyoto, Japan, by architects ALPHAville. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This garden, filled with a maze of grey brick arches interspersed with willow trees, has been completed by Martha Schwartz Partners as part of the 2011 Xi’an International Horticultural Expo currently taking place in China. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some more photographs of Zaha Hadid‘s recently completed aquatics centre for the London 2012 Olympic Games, taken by UK photographers Hufton + Crow. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Copper louvres shade the glazed upper storeys of a police station in France that emerges from behind a cobbled stone wall. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A walkway by Tetsuo Kondo Architects winds its way around tree trunks and up into the canopy at a park in Tallinn, Estonia. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Check out the latest issue of Dezeen Mail for all the best stories and comments from Dezeen, including the new look for McDonalds, flying robotic construction workers and sex-doll shoes. There’s also an update from Dezeen Wire, the latest movies on Dezeen Screen, all our new competitions and jobs, plus news on our Christmas shop The Temporium. Take a look at it here. Dezeen Mail is sent out every couple of weeks and you can subscribe here. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A painted-timber skin that skirts around the top storey of this Hamburg house reveals the heights of staggered floors inside. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: Dezeen and Austrian architect Hans Hollein have teamed up to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of his new monograph. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article