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Artist Olafur Eliasson has designed fort-like headquarters to rise out of the sea for a Danish investment company. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Textile brand Kirkby Design has collaborated with Transport for London to recreate seven heritage moquette designs featured on the city's Underground tube seats. Read more

Kirkby Design has given a 1967 London underground carriage a candy-coloured overhaul by upholstering it in the brand's Underground Vol. II fabric collection. Read more

Legendary British designer Terence Conran has opened a restaurant in east London, where a menu of foraged food is complemented by natural tones and grassy installations. Read more View the full article

As part of today's collaboration with ArkDes for Virtual Design Festival, curator and editor Carlos Mínguez Carrasco explains how the architecture centre's idea for its book Kiruna Forever came about and why Kiruna's history is so fascinating. Read more View the full article

Interieur 2012: objects that seem like half-finished sketches of candle holders, vases, bowls and bottles won British designer Maya Selway second prize in the Object category of the Interieur Design Awards at the Interieur design biennale in Kortrijk, Belgium, last week (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Pop-up shops might be commonplace in retail but would you consider getting married in a pop-up chapel made of cardboard? (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Indian company Lucid Design has created a conceptual "bike in a bag" that would quickly dismantle into parts to fit into a backpack (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

This aid kit is designed to nestle between Coca-Cola bottles to bring medicine to remote locations through the drinks company's vast distribution channels. (more...) View the full article

Belgian architects Edouard Brunet and François Martens have converted a terraced house in Brussels into two apartments, adding a projecting box with a full-height glass wall to house a new kitchen (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Industrial design students Emma Nilsson, Johanna Westin and Lisa Frode of Lund University, Sweden, have created a wooden bench with storage units as part of their Masters project. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Product news: a collection of kitchenware by Danish designer Ole Jensen is now in production with design brand Room Copenhagen. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Italian designer Alessio Romano's latest watch for Projects is based on Japanese ideas of simplicity, with a stripped-back monochrome design. (more…) View the full article

This foyer for the Royal Institute of Engineers in The Hague by Dutch practice AAArchitects has a large door which folds up from the glass facade to create a porch. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This beauty salon with faceted walls is located within a hotel in central Singapore, and was designed by Japanese studio Isolation Unit. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Strips of timber from the surrounding forest cover the exterior of this hotel in Sweden by Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture, so that it reflects its rural setting (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A white box bursts through the roof of this old chapel in Limburg, Belgium, to form the new studio for architecture office Klaarchitectuur. Read more View the full article

There's not a sharp edge in sight within Greek studio KLab's design for the Andronikos Hotel, which sits at the mouth of a volcano in Santorini (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2011: Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola presented this series of beech furniture for Italian brand Moroso at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swiss art curator Klaus Littmann has planted 300 trees in a football stadium in Austria as a "memorial" to the environment in the anthropocene era. Read more

Curator Klaus Littmann imagines a future where forests only exist inside stadiums, like animals in a zoo, in his upcoming installation, For Forest. Read more

Photo essay: a shark in a corridor and a toad seated on a filing cabinet are among the scenes found by Austrian photographer Klaus Pichler when he went backstage at the Natural History Museum Vienna (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The walls of this house in Australia by architects McBride Charles Ryan have origami-like facets and folds. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Five years after the devastating Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, Klein Dytham Architecture has unveiled a community hall for recovering city Sōma, designed to look like a huge straw hat (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Over 5,000 aluminium panels are arranged to create the perforated facade of this commercial building by Klein Dytham Architecture, which overlooks one of Tokyo's most iconic intersections. Read more View the full article