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Gabion walls, laminated wood and concrete were used to form this cave-like beer hall in southeastern Brazil, which was designed by SuperLimão Studio to minimise energy usage. Read more

Soho House has turned a former warehouse in Downtown Los Angeles into a new spot for its members, featuring a rooftop pool, hotel rooms and garden. Read more

Central Saint Martins graduate designer Daisy Newdick has created an alternative to coffee using the roots of the dandelion plant. Read more View the full article

Whitewashed walls, colourful ceramics and rattan furnishings help channel sunny climes inside this Parisian restaurant, designed by the eponymous owner of cult French fashion label Jacquemus. Read more View the full article

Renzo Piano designed one of high-tech architecture's seminal buildings – the Centre Pompidou. Continuing our high-tech architecture series we profile the Italian architect who was a key figure in the largely British-led movement. Read more View the full article

Atelier Villemard et Associés used a structural grid of exposed concrete to define the exterior and interior of this student housing block on the outskirts of Paris. Read more View the full article

Beige tiles and pale pink window shutters cover the exterior of this concrete secondary school in Romanshorn, Switzerland. Read more View the full article

Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch, the husband-and-wife team behind design firm Roman and Williams, have created a lofty two-storey emporium in Manhattan's Soho district. Read more View the full article

Tomoaki Uno Architects has limited the material palette of this windowless Japanese house to cedar and cypress to offer its sick owner a pared-back and therapeutic home. Read more View the full article

Architect Francesca Perani has transformed the porch of an Italian villa into a 25-square-metre micro apartment with plenty of hidden storage. Read more View the full article

Architecture students collaborated with a women's group in Morocco to design and build a community centre out of stone and earth in the village of Ouled Merzoug. Read more View the full article

Architecture critic Kate Wagner has hit out at architects and designers for proposing coronavirus-related solutions, describing some of the proposals as "bullsh*t". Read more View the full article

In Milan next month Venetian designer Luca Nichetto will present a chair painted to look like the surface is already wearing away. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London studio Amenity Space have squeezed this new residence between two terraced houses in Stoke Newington, London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architectural photographer Gerard van Beek shares his photographs of a heating plant in the Netherlands by Dutch architects Bonnema. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American studio Michael Graves & Associates have completed a new building to house over 230 cars of the Dutch national automobile museum in the Hague. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: Swiss brand Punkt. presented this alarm clock by British designer Jasper Morrison at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This group of schools outside Paris by French architects Dominique Coulon & Associés has walls, ceilings and details picked out in bright orange. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design Miami/Basel 2011: London designers Fredrikson Stallard present a series of crystal lamps resembling the human eye at Design Miami/Basel this week. Watch the designers explaining their work in this movie on Dezeen Screen. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this previously unseen movie filmed during the London Design Festival 2010, Dezeen interviewed London designer Faye Toogood at her Super Natural exhibition inside a disused garage. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Paul Cocksedge moulds discarded vinyl records into a range of amplifiers for smartphones. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Portuguese photographer José Campos has sent us these photos of Herzog & de Meuron’s Elbphilharmonie concert hall, which is currently under construction in Hamburg and due for completion in 2013. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: U.S. opinion columnist Harold Meyerson has written an article for the Washington Post in which he challenges assertions made in Walter Isaacson’s bestselling biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs that it is America’s ability to produce innovators such as Jobs that will keep them ahead of emerging industrial powers such as China and India. Meyerson opines that Silicon Valley’s creativity and technical expertise are not enough to revitalise the American economy, arguing that it is more important that Apple consider relocating production back to the U.S. He concludes his piece by stating that: “Absent manufacturing, innovation, even at its Jobsian heights, …

This inkjet printer has been adapted by Ecole Cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) student Christophe Guberan to print patterns that contort pieces of paper into specific 3D forms. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2012: these stacking metal chairs were created by French architect Jean Nouvel for the restaurant of the RBC Design Centre that his studio have designed in Montpellier, due to open next month, and they’re now in production with Italian brand Emu. (more…) View the full article