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World Architecture Festival 2012: in this movie, Australian architect Jeff Morehen of Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp tells Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs how the workplaces of the future should be “more hybrid in their nature” and accommodate public facilities, just like his Darling Quarter offices in Sydney that won the office category at the World Architecture Festival this month. (more…) View the full article

In our latest competition, we're inviting our readers the chance to win a two-night stay at Sabi Sabi private game reserve in South Africa. Read more View the full article

Elon Musk, car manufacturer Vauxhall, Gucci parent company Kering and beer maker BrewDog are among the brands that have offered up money and production lines to create the items needed to treat and contain the coronavirus. Read 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

This week a staircase for dogs has been our most popular on Dezeen and most-shared on Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter. (more…) View the full article

With just two days until Christmas, today's offering from our A-Zdvent calendar is the cardboard Wiggle Chair by architect Frank Gehry. (more…) View the full article

These images offer a peek at amenity spaces available to residents moving into Herzog & de Meuron's recently completed skyscraper in Tribeca, New York. Read more View the full article

Chenchow Little Architects has completed a house in the Glebe suburb of Sydney featuring upside-down arches in the walls and curved openings in the floors. 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

British designer Samuel Wilkinson has created a range of lightweight aluminium furniture (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A savings-driven redesign of the iconic, triangular Toblerone chocolate bar has not gone down well with the British public. Read more View the full article

The jagged form of this climbing centre by Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter is covered in grey, brown and white shingles that reference a snow-covered mountain behind the building (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

An underground concrete house in Monsaraz, Portugal, by Aires Mateus is dug into a hillside and concealed by a green roof that cantilevers outwards. Read more View the full article

Movie: Cyril Zammit of Art Dubai explains how the inaugural Dubai Design Week aims to establish the city as a global design centre, in the first movie from a series produced by Dezeen for Dubai Design Week. (more…) View the full article

The lower storey of this house in Ontario by Toronto studio Williamson Chong Architects is wrapped by a concrete wall that burrows into a hillside, while the upper floor is an overhanging box clad with red-stained timber (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen's founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will speak to speculative architect Liam Young about drones, the topic of Dezeen's short film Elevation, in a talk at the Building Centre in London tonight. Watch live here from 6:30pm UK time. Read more

London architecture studio Platform 5 has added a cranked extension to a Victorian house in Hackney, featuring a herringbone-patterned dining table that matches the parquet flooring. (more…) View the full article

This week Peter Zumthor rejected architecture as form-making during his RIBA Royal Gold Medal lecture and revealed designs for glass condiment containers for Alessi. Also, scroll on for our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Australian studio Biasol paired worn concrete walls with pink marble and rich red accents for the interiors of this Italian restaurant in Melbourne, which takes visual cues from Ancient Rome. Read more View the full article

News: the yacht that Apple‘s co-founder Steve Jobs designed for himself before he died this time last year with interiors by French designer Philippe Starck is now complete and has been unveiled at the Dutch shipyard where it was built. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival 2015: London designer Lee Broom is presenting his latest collections of furniture and vases against a backdrop of flowers at his Shoreditch showroom (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

British designer Tom Dixon has developed a collection of tiles for Italian brand Bisazza, featuring graphic and trompe-l'oeil patterns based on architectural features including bricks and pebble-dash walls. (more…) View the full article

New York interior designer Magdalena Keck has used brand-name furnishings and a monochrome palette to create a minimal apartment in Lower Manhattan. Read more

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a retail design project leader at watch brand Swatch, whose new headquarters in Switzerland (pictured) is being designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: with Cape Town serving as World Design Capital in 2014, we spoke to programme director Richard Perez about how the title can help the city overcome problems inherited from the Apartheid regime. (more...) View the full article