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This week on Dezeen, automotive giants took their futuristic concept cars for a spin at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Read more View the full article

TV-free guest suites and an in-house yoga studio are some of the ways that hotelier Charlotte Gomez de Orozco has tried to channel a sense of serenity inside this Parisian hotel, which is decked out in natural hues. Read more View the full article

News: Chinese architects need to develop their own design manifesto to stem the tide of “half-assed” building projects in the country, according to Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu of Shanghai studio Neri&Hu. (more…) View the full article

Nicole Moyo's sustainable waste-to-energy infrastructure Ukubutha can be constructed by slum communities to enable them to live self-sufficiently. Read more

Architect Pierre-Alain Dupraz chose exposed concrete for this cross-shaped kindergarten and crèche in Switzerland, giving it an austere appearance (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Apple has created a collection of Apple Watch designs in collaboration with Hermès, featuring a handcrafted leather strap produced by the Paris fashion brand (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the Braun BN0024 is the newest watch in our collection of iconic Braun watches. This timepiece has an understated face with classic hour and minute hands and features a smaller smaller dial on the face that marks the seconds using a yellow ticker. Buy now for £120.00 » (more…) View the full article

London designer Moritz Waldemeyer based this headgear for the lead singer of Jamiroquai on an endangered animal called the pangolin, creating scale-like sections that move and light up. Read more View the full article

Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a communications manager at Selldorf Architects, which restored the original west-to-east orientation of the Clark Art Institute in Massachusetts to provide the institute space to house a permanent collection (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Australian fashion designer Molly Younger has created a range of flesh-like rubber bags and wallets cast from natural latex. Read more View the full article

From 2019, all new Volvo cars will have electric or hybrid engines, the Swedish auto manufacturer announced today. Read more View the full article

Tokyo architecture studio Sinato added a L-shaped wall into the centre of this apartment in Japan to partition off space for two new bedrooms (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Platov airport in Rostov-on-Don, designed by Twelve Architects, has completed ahead of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, when the city will be hosting games. Read more View the full article

Fancy paddling on an unguarded rooftop? Or doing lengths in a structure cantilevered from a skyscraper? Following the popularity of yesterday's house with an infinity pool on the roof, here are some of the scariest swimming spots from Dezeen's architecture archives (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

German industrial designer Konstantin Grcic has created a series of futuristic scenarios as part of the largest solo exhibition of his work at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

This pavilion in Santiago by Chilean studio Umwelt is made up of white steel frames that outline artworks, seating and small trees beneath a series of skylights (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A group of Canadian designers has created a wearable device that monitors environmental data including air quality and UV radiation, and presents the metrics via an app. (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

American design consultancy IDEO has developed a series of concept vehicles that imagine how autonomous vehicles could transform the way we work, shop and travel (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Sou Fujimoto, Nicolas Laisné and Dimitri Roussel have won the competition to build a new mixed-use development in Paris with their design called Vertical Village. Read more View the full article

This see-through floating hut designed by Elise Morin and Florent Albinet is modelled on the remote cabin built by American author Henry David Thoreau in the mid-19th century (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Spanish photographer Victor Enrich has used digital manipulation to splice together two buildings – the Storefront for Art & Architecture gallery in New York and the Spanish Republic Pavilion from the 1937 Paris Expo. (more…) View the full article

A twisting chain-link and barbed-wire fence installed by French artist and architect Didier Faustino at an exhibition in Cincinnati determines the path taken by visitors through the gallery space. (more...) View the full article

Venezuelan officials have claimed a thwarted assassination attempt was made against President Nicolás Maduro using explosives strapped to drones. Read more View the full article

Gardens on the terraced roofs of this brick office building in northern India were designed by SPA Design to reference an ancient Indian well and the legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article