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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

Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka will present a table that’s almost invisible at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan next week. (more…) View the full article

Here’s another of our favourite tracks by Will Matiu, a UK producer and DJ based in Leeds. Bit on Please has got soulful piano chords, a strong vocal hook and, like all his tracks, a dance floor-filling groove. Make sure you check out his track we featured last month too. About Dezeen Music Project | More tracks | Submit your track View the full article

Slovenian studio OFIS Arhitekti have added a bleached larch extension onto the side of a 1930s house in Ljubljana designed by modernist architect Josip Costaperaria. (more…) View the full article

Get up to 40% off LunaTik watch kits, designed to convert your iPod Nano into a multi-touch timepiece, in the Dezeen Watch Store’s summer sale. This limited edition camouflage TakTik model is now only £54 (UK and EU) or £43.20 (rest of the world). Buy now » Don’t forget you can get 10% off any product at Dezeen Super Store at 38 Monmouth Street, London WC2 with this flyer. View the full article

East London designer Donna Wilson will contribute a special installation to Dezeen’s Stepney Green Design Collection made up of a 1.8 metre-high knitted tree with a selection of her soft-toy creatures living in it. (more…) View the full article

In this movie we filmed at our Designed in Hackney Day, Sugru founder Jane ní Dhulchaointigh shares her journey through inventing and launching a “space-age rubber” that lets people customise their belongings and endorses the idea that “you don’t have to be an expert to do amazing things”. (more…) View the full article

Product news: Austrian designer Robert Stadler’s update on the classic bentwood bistro chair by Thonet, synonymous with cafe culture since it appeared in the nineteenth century, has gone into production. (more…) View the full article

London designer Dominic Wilcox shares his thoughts on 3D printing and presents some of his “fun, crazy” projects including GPS shoes, a combined coffin and desk and a reserve bungee jump in this movie we filmed at 100% Design. “We shouldn’t be so scared of putting out ridiculous thoughts,” he says. (more…) View the full article

Designer Dominic Wilcox describes why he chose to hang a row of bird cages above a street in London in the next movie we filmed about the Seven Designers for Seven Dials aerial installations curated by Dezeen. (more...) View the full article

Stockholm studio Humans Since 1982 has combined 288 analogue clocks to create an installation of shifting monochrome patterns, lettering and numbers (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Architects Francesco Di Gregorio and Karin Matz used spotty tiles, blue rope and pine to convert the hayloft of an old thatched farmhouse into an apartment on the small island of Föhr in Germany (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: researchers from IBM have redesigned the bus routes across Ivory Coast's largest city using data from mobile phones. (more...) View the full article

Clerkenwell Design Week 2013: Spanish atelier MUT patterned these tiles with shapes that look like overlapping pieces of coloured paper. (more...) View the full article

News: a camera that allows users to focus photographs after they've been taken has launched in the UK. (more...) View the full article

Designed as an annex for a 1960s log cabin, this angular timber and cast-concrete structure by Maddison Architects is nestled among the undergrowth of a forest in Victoria, Australia (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Designer Ron Arad compares the overuse of 3D printing today to how musicians "abused" synthesisers in this movie made by Alice Masters for London's Design Museum. (more...) View the full article

Here's an exclusive set of images showing the inside of Zaha Hadid's Innovation Tower at the Polytechnic University in Hong Kong, sent to us by photographer Edmon Leong (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This extension to a woodland home in Ontario by Canadian studio UUfie features charred cedar walls and a mirrored entrance (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: scientists at the Google[x] research facility in California are working on contact lenses containing tiny electronics that could constantly monitor glucose levels in the tears of people with diabetes. (more...) View the full article

Belgian studio Atelier Tom Vanhee has renovated and extended the brick buildings of a community centre in the village of Westvleteren using a contrasting contemporary brick (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article