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Courtyards and double-height spaces create a bright and airy atmosphere inside this black house in Mexico City, which was designed by architecture studio PPAA. Read more View the full article

Belgian practice TOOP Architectuur has designed two mobile architects' studios for its staff made of repurposed shipping containers clad in mirrors and timber. Read more View the full article

Romanian designers say they are about to storm the world stage – and they're not going to let the lack of home-grown brands, manufacturers or heritage stop them. Read more View the full article

Lighting brand Plumen is to cease production of its award-winning light bulbs, and is looking for a buyer. Co-founder Nicolas Roope spoke to Dezeen about the brand's journey. Read more

Dezeen Wire: Little Printer, the web-connected gadget we featured earlier this year that prints out personalised messages, news, birthdays and to-do lists collected from the internet on a till-roll, is now going into production. (more…) View the full article

Following the success of our digital map-based guides to London Design Festival 2012 and Milan Design Week 2013, we're creating an even better version for this year's LDF - so if you're exhibiting or organising an event and want to be included FREE, drop us a line! (more...) View the full article

German designer Clemens Weisshaar argues that cutting edge software from race car engineering and hypersonic aircraft will underpin design in the future in this movie filmed at Dezeen Live during 100% Design. (more...) View the full article

Affordable developer BoKlok, which is co-owned by IKEA and Skanska, has signed a deal with Worthing council in West Sussex to build low-cost housing in the south of England. Read more

London's Design Museum has hit back after environmental action group Extinction Rebellion called on designers to boycott its Beazley Designs of the Year show. Read more

In this article from Print Shift, our one-off magazine about additive manufacturing, Dezeen's Ben Hobson asks how soon we could be tucking into 3D-printed steaks. (more...) View the full article

Central Saint Martins graduate Eilish Macintosh showed outfits tied up with knotted lengths of rope at the institution's show during London Fashion Week. (more...) View the full article

Herringbone parquet covers the walls and floor of this photography studio in east London by local design practice Post-Office. (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

Visualisations of Google's new headquarters designed by BIG and Heatherwick, Li Edelkoort's predictions for the death of fashion and a coastal home in Portugal (pictured) feature in Dezeen Mail issue 243. Click through for all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 242 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Milan 2013: London designer Philippe Malouin is exhibiting furniture built from slats of two-by-four, sand-cast chairs and a spinning candle at the ProjectB gallery in Milan. (more...) View the full article

Concrete ceiling beams and columns have been exposed during the renovation of this central London apartment by local studio Inside Out Architecture (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Car brand MINI has launched the Paceman: a cross between a sports activity vehicle and a coupé (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Angular balconies edged with bands of reflective steel surround this apartment building in the French city of Nantes, providing occupants on each level with unobstructed views of the sky (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Concrete, clay and dark blue wallpaper line the walls and ceilings of this darkly atmospheric apartment in Taipei, Taiwan, designed by locally based studio Wei Yi International Design Associates. Read more

This leisure centre in Amsterdam by Dutch architects VenhoevenCS was designed as a fortress covered in plants (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Rooms are contained within wooden boxes inside this long and low concrete house in Brazil by architecture office Studio MK27 (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

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

Renzo Piano has become the latest architect to contribute a design to the major redevelopment of Sydney's Barangaroo South waterfront (+ movie). (more…)

Japanese designer Jin Kuramoto has created a "100 per cent biological chair" using flax fibres – a completely biodegradable material that is most commonly used for banknotes, tea bags and linen. Read more View the full article

This flat circular lamp by Japanese designer Jun Yasumoto was designed to resemble an owl's wide eyes at night. (more...) View the full article