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Architect Alison Brooks talks about how residents come together in the streets of her firm's Be housing project in Essex, UK, in this movie produced by Living Projects. (more...) View the full article

News: architect Rafael Viñoly has admitted he knew the facade of his curvy Walkie Talkie skyscraper in London would focus an intense beam of sunlight onto a neighbouring street, but says that he "didn't realise it was going to be so hot". (more...) View the full article

Sebastian Herkner has created a series of spherical glass pendant lamps for German brand Pulpo that contrast clear curved ridges with smooth frosted glass. Read more View the full article

In this movie, jury members discuss how the finalists in the wallpaper category of the Samsung Mobile Design Competition incorporated elements of nature and colour into their responsive designs. Read more View the full article

Danish practice Norm Architects has lent their minimalist aesthetic to a 70-foot-long luxury yacht, decking out its interiors with an array of warm and tactile materials. Read more

During the renovation of this Montreal home, local firm L McComber Architects reinterpreted its mock-Tudor facades with an expansion that echoes the architectural style. Read more View the full article

Cuban-American artist Edel Rodriguez has redesigned the front cover of the tell-all book documenting Donald Trump's first nine months as US president, with an illustration of his face as flames. Read more View the full article

Birch-framed skylights and windows offer patients garden views when undergoing treatment at this sculptural dental clinic in the Netherlands, designed by Studio Prototype. Read more View the full article

Spanish designer Jaime Hayón has paired a ceramic urn-shaped body with a frosted glass shade to create these lamps for design brand Parachilna (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese architect Tadao Ando is restoring a 18th-century stock exchange building in Paris and turning it into a contemporary art gallery. Read more View the full article

This holiday home on the southern coast of Nova Scotia perches on a row of narrow concrete fins just metres from the Atlantic Ocean (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Featuring everything from zoo enclosures for kangaroos to dog-stretching "cuteness tools", this Pinterest board rounds up the best animal-related architecture and design from the pages of Dezeen. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › View the full article

News: the world's first mobile research facility, designed by British firm Hugh Broughton Architects, has officially opened on the floating Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica. (more...) View the full article

Architects Luigi Valente and Mauro Di Bona have renovated the former church of Saint Rocco in southern Italy into a theatre with a black and white interior. Read more

News: 3D technology company Inition has developed an augmented-reality iPad app that allows architects to look inside static architectural models, visualise how their building will look at night and track how wind flows around their design proposals (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Two initials are merged so each be read from different angles in this 3D-printed metal jewellery (+slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This polygonal black form is actually a sports car, which Dutch footwear brand United Nude designed by simplifying a classic Lamborghini (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The latest collection from Italian design brand Discipline includes chopping boards that look like pebbles and a desk tidy object that resembles an apple. (more...) View the full article

Norman Foster's firm has been appointed to revamp the Snowdon Aviary at London Zoo – one of the most iconic designs of the late British architect Cedric Price. Read more View the full article

This concrete house in Switzerland by Basel studio on3 architekten has gabled end walls that appear folded along central vertical seams (+slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with PearsonLloyd (whose SixE chairs are pictured), Aesop and the V&A Museum, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Rossana Orlandi, Foster + Partners, Heatherwick Studio, Tom Dixon and more... (more...) View the full article

As the Fire Island Pines resort off New York's Long Island recovers from its annual summer party, architect and Pines Modern founder Christopher Rawlins has chosen 10 of his favourite Modernist retreats dotted among the dunes (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has designed a 20-sided wireless speaker that can rest on any of its triangular faces. (more...) View the full article

This woodland observatory by architecture collective CLP Architectes is a patchwork of square wooden panels and windows. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: creators of the Philips LightCollector app, which stores and shares users' pictures of their lighting design inspiration, have selected some of their favourite images uploaded since its launch in November. (more...) View the full article