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This clock by graduate designer Rachel Suming is made of engraved aluminium plates that overlap every three hours to reveal the time. (more...) View the full article

Photo essay: now that North Korea is no longer the tourism black spot it once was, French photographer Raphael Olivier has travelled to the notoriously secretive nation's capital to capture its particular architectural style (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Shing Tat Chung has created a superstitious robot that trades on the stock market according to the lucky numbers it generates. (more…) View the full article

An instrument played by hitting a series of rocks has been created by designers at Italian research group Fabrica for a member of their music team's latest album (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Brands that don't embrace the circular economy will go out of business, according to Dutch designer Richard Hutten. Read more

New York 2015: design student Maxime Loiseau has created a set of prototype headphones that transmit sound through printed electronics. (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

A team of architects, artists and scientists has built a pair of basalt structures on the shoreline of a South Korean island to help to draw up fresh water from a spring below the sea. (more…) View the full article

This volcano museum in western Hungary features walls of dark concrete and Corten steel designed by Budapest studio Foldes Architects to reference the colours of volcanic rock and lava (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The latest edition of Dezeen Mail contains a cross-shaped, 14-storey monument imagined by Giles Miller and Forbes Massie and a skinny house in Rotterdam self-designed by a pair of architects. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail › View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: in our final movie from the World Architecture Festival we take another look at the World Building of the Year, Gardens by the Bay, as Wilkinson Eyre Architects’ Paul Baker explains how the design team used vertical planting to create “some real drama in a very flat landscape.” (more…) View the full article

Ukrainian studio S&T Architects has released detailed renders showing its design for a summer retreat in the Carpathian Mountains, comprising two concrete and glass buildings that face each other across a swimming pool. Read more View the full article

Russian product designer Ilya Tkach has created a simple desk lamp featuring a light source that snaps onto its stem with a magnet. (more...) View the full article

Movie: Katrin Schön of garden trade fair Spoga+Gafa shows Dezeen around the Garden Unique section of this year's show and discusses the growing trend for outdoor cooking in this movie filmed in Cologne. (more...) View the full article

This combined dental clinic and beauty salon in Takashima, Japan, by Osaka designer Ryutaro Matsuura features a plain white facade that conceals windows and patios behind perforated metal screens (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A metal roof completely surrounds this house by Japanese studio Suppose Design Office, sheltering terraces and a garden so that residents can use these spaces all year round (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Portuguese artists João Pedro Vale and Nuno Alexandre Ferreira have erected a two-storey building inside the MAAT in Lisbon, filled with references to "dissident forms of sexuality". Read more View the full article

Montreal studio Thomas Balaban Architect has turned a gabled farmhouse in Quebec's Eastern Townships completely white, and then contrasted it with an extension covered in weathered cedar cladding. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Screen: this movie by Karen Eng shows a model built by MIT fellow Skylar Tibbits and molecular scientist Arthur Olson to show how components will assemble themselves correctly if allowed to collide enough times, resulting in the creation of larger and more complex structures. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Jiabao Zhang has taken the average dimensions of 50 cups, bottles, pens, light shades and reading glasses to create five standard items. Read more View the full article

With design fairs being cancelled or postponed due to coronavirus, Dezeen is announcing Virtual Milan, a digital platform that will allow brands to launch their products. Read more View the full article

Dutch studio Personal Architecture has renovated one of Piet Bloms' iconic Cube Houses in Rotterdam to create a residence for delinquents in their final stages of detention (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A perforated metal box encases the concrete visitor centre for the Atapuerca archaeological site in northern Spain by architects a3gm and Mata y asociados (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our selection of the most promising architecture and design roles on Dezeen Jobs this week includes positions at Níall McLaughlin Architects and Craftworks. Read more View the full article

Herzog & de Meuron's Tate Modern Switch House, Ikea's flatpack refugee shelter, and the artwork for David Bowie's final album are among projects nominated for the Design Museum's Designs of the Year awards 2016 (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week The Shard was inaugurated in London, legendary Italian car designer Sergio Pininfarina died and new dean of architecture Alex de Rijke announced the end of “paper architecture” at the Royal College of Art. (more…) View the full article