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Royal College of Art student Joy Bonfield-Colombara has funded her way through art school by creating a hand-carved effigy of Lil Wayne in solid 18 carat gold with diamond tears, for the American rapper. Read more View the full article

Over 100 designers including Terence Conran, Tord Boontje, Tom Dixon and Michael Marriott will exhibit artworks based on a piece of A4 graph paper at Somerset House in London next week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spools of scarlet thread and huge sheets of steel make an unconventional pairing inside this store in Chongqing, China, which Joy Season Studio has created for independent fashion label Annakiki. Read more

Dutch studio Personal Architecture has overhauled a traditional townhouse in The Hague by adding mezzanine floors, a glass elevation, a triple-height kitchen and a spiral staircase. (more...) View the full article

Concave walls at the centre of this Hong Kong boutique hide a stockroom and fitting rooms. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Joyce Wang Studio's latest restaurant in Hong Kong features burnt walls, a chandelier made from smoked washing-machine drums and a barbershop-themed den (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Inside Festival 2014: architect Joyce Wang explains how she used styles from throughout Hong Kong's history to design the restaurant that was named World Interior of the Year 2014 in this exclusive video interview. (more...) View the full article

Artist JR has created a giant 3D optical illusion from paper that imagines the iconic pyramid at the Louvre in Paris continuing underground. Read more

Ladders lead to sleeping platforms accommodated beneath the hipped roof of this simple Slovakian lake house, which local studio JRKVC designed without any corridors to utilise the available space (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Lattices of dark blockwork wrap around a verdant courtyard and narrow swimming pool at this hotel in Mexico City, overhauled by local firm JSa. Read more View the full article

Creative firm Grupo Mitote has overhauled a 16-century colonial mansion near Guadalajara, Mexico to create the Juana Bautista Hotel. Read more

Stuttgart office Birk und Heilmeyer Architekten have completed this wooden observation tower in Hemer, Germany. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design Miami 2013: German architect Juergen Mayer H. is exhibiting a sculpture derived from the patterns used on the inside of envelopes to obscure personal information at Art Basel Miami Beach (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

German fashion designer Jule Waibel has turned her intricate pleated paper dresses into steam press templates for wearable fabric garments that expand and contract as the wearer moves. (more...) View the full article

London-based German designer Jule Waibel has launched a collection of seats made from 100 per cent wool felt that has been three-dimensionally folded under steam to create flexible pleats (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Designer Julia Lohmann's Department of Seaweed is showing a pavilion made of kelp and rattan at the World Economic Forum conference in Davos, where world leaders have met this week. Read more View the full article

News: the American Institute of Architects has named Californian architect Julia Morgan as the first female recipient of the AIA Gold Medal, 56 years after her death. (more...) View the full article

Stockholm-based designer Julia Olanders has used construction materials that are usually hidden in buildings to create a series of decorative vases for her Betweenness project. Read more View the full article

Serpentine Gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones, who launched the Serpentine Pavilion commission and turned the tiny London arts venue into one of the UK's most influential architecture clients, is to step down after 25 years. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2012: this armchair with a pleated leather seat by London designer Benjamin Hubert was inspired by sleeves with puffed shoulders on Italian Renaissance clothing. (more…) View the full article

Graduate shows 2016: Central Saint Martins graduate Julius Breitenstein has created a device that performs the activities an intern would usually do in a design office. (more…) View the full article

To create the visuals for Fraction's music video, director Julius Horsthuis used software that generates "unpredictable and infinitely complex shapes". Read more View the full article

Filipino graphic designer Julius Raymund Advincula sat half-naked in front of a mirror looking for letters and numbers in the folds of his skin and limbs to make up this Body Type typeface. Read more View the full article

These images taken by late photographer Julius Shulman show buildings from the USA's Mid-century Modern movement that "slipped from public view" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architect Julius Taminiau borrowed principles from traditional Japanese tatami rooms to create a well-proportioned layout featuring space-saving built-in furniture at his floating home in Amsterdam. Read more View the full article