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Product news: Californian company Soma has launched an hourglass-shaped carafe and a biodegradable filter to fit in the top. (more...) View the full article

Italian architect Fabio Ferrillo has transformed a derelict blacksmith's workshop into the headquarters of a Milanese fashion brand. (more...) View the full article

A geometric pattern of skylights frames views of the sky from inside this angular white residence in Tokyo by Japanese firm Atelier Tekuto (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New York studio Grzywinski+Pons has ripped out the "sterile" interior of a lobby in a London hotel to reveal industrial fittings, which it has paired with pastel accessories and paintwork (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This multi-storey car park for Copenhagen by local firm JAJA Architects will feature a plant-covered facade to hide the cars inside and grand external staircases leading to a landscaped park on the roof (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The timber and stone buildings of Gion A Caminada, a cult figure in Swiss architecture, will feature in an exhibition opening next month at the House of Art in the Czech city of České Budějovice (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: witness reports people crying in the street as "nightmare" fire continues to burn at the Mackintosh-designed Glasgow School of Art. (more...) View the full article

Cape Town architect Mark Thomas and engineer Henry Fagan have completed a sinuous wooden walkway that meanders through the treetops of a botanical garden on the eastern slopes of Table Mountain (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch studio i29 has designed a minimal stainless-steel kitchen island for a classical Paris apartment (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Biennale Interieur returns to Kortrijk, Belgium, from 17 to 26 October 2014, with a special exhibition of new work by nine past winners of the event's Designer of the Year award. (more...) View the full article

This Vietnam kindergarten by Vo Trong Nghia Architects features a knot-shaped roof with a vegetable garden on top and three protected courtyard playgrounds (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: engineering student Martijn Lammers, part of the team behind the world's "first solar-powered family car," claims most vehicles could be powered by the sun in future. (more…) View the full article

Chinese studio Neri&Hu has added bamboo-lined booths and green glass lampshades to a Shanghai bar that specialises in one drink – punch (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Natural stone and timber are used to differentiate the main house from an adjoining guest wing at this property in California's Napa Valley by local architect Brandon Jørgensen (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Munich architecture studio IFUB has overhauled a 1930s apartment in Vienna, uncovering original details like parquet flooring and adding contemporary lighting and black steel fittings (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The Royal College of Art has announced Adrian Lahoud will be the new dean of the school's architecture department, replacing Alex de Rijke. (more…) View the full article

Supermarket receipts could introduce graphics showing nutritional information to help solve the "obesity epidemic", proposes UK designer Hayden Peek. (more…) View the full article

Wall panels fold up to create tables for this cafe in Sicily, which Italian architect Giuseppe Gurrieri created by converting the old ticket office of a sports arena (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2016: this trio of side tables by Japanese studio Nendo for Italian brand Capellini features corkscrew legs that allow them to interlock (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Nimtim Architects created a steeply terraced garden to accommodate this extension to a 1960s house in southeast London, which features parquet flooring and blue-stained woodwork (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A row has broken out over architect Kunlé Adeyemi's award-winning Makoko Floating School following its collapse earlier this week, with a community leader in Lagos claiming pupils were evacuated three months ago over safety concerns and architecture critics questioning its credentials. (more…) View the full article

A central lightwell and a secluded courtyard bring natural light into the heart of this house in Leiden, the Netherlands, which was designed by Pasel Kuenzel for a photographer and his family. (more…) View the full article

Italian design collective Nucleo has tweaked its popular design for a grass armchair that grows over time, relaunching it with a crowdfunding campaign (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The world's longest glass bridge, our roundup of the best Minimalist rebrands and a teepee-shaped home with a spiral pool (pictured) feature in this week's issue of Dezeen Mail. Read Dezeen Mail issue 321 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Finnish Modernist architect Alvar Aalto accidentally invented the skateboard bowl with a 1930s swimming pool design, according to a US skateboarding magazine and a Finnish newspaper. (more…) View the full article