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US architecture practice Collective Office "updated the rustic farmhouse typology" for this house in Wisconsin, which comprises three gabled units clad in black metal siding and shingles. Read more View the full article

Architecture practice Playze and design firm Schmidhuber covered the Ningbo Urban Planning Exhibition Center in eastern China in a skin of pale green glazed ceramic tiles. Read more View the full article

Writer and Dezeen columnist Phineas Harper has become director of London-based charity Open City, which organises open house events in over 40 cities around the world. Read more View the full article

Multi-coloured walls, geometric floors and a seesaw feature in this west London fashion store, which Yinka Ilori has designed to match the playful nature of the brand's clothing collections. Read more View the full article

This taco restaurant in Vancouver, designed by local studio September, is filled with fibreglass Eames chairs and stools, lush plants and curvy black tables. Read more View the full article

American firm Malcolm Davis Architecture has placed skylights over existing wood framing to streak the interiors of this San Francisco house with beams of light. Read more View the full article

Spanish practice Tuñón Arquitectos has added a white concrete extension to the Museum of Contemporary Art Helga de Alvear in Cáceres, Spain. Read more View the full article

Spanish architects Carlos Pereda Iglesias and Óscar Pérez Silanes have completed a jewellery shop in Bilbao divided by rippled glass screens. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Frank Lloyd Wright's School of Architecture at Taliesin will change its name and move its campuses to Cosanti and Arcosanti sites Italian-American architect Paolo Soleri designed in Arizona. Read more View the full article

Estonian architects Urmas Muru and Peeter Pere have designed a house for a fishing village near Tallinn, covered in shingles on all surfaces except for one white concrete wall. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Ronen Kadushin has designed an open-source mallet for smashing up iPhones. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Aki and Arnaud Cooren of Paris studio A+A cooren have designed a glass vase with a vortex-shaped void in the middle. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Dezeen podcast: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to James Dyson in this podcast recorded at the UK launch of Dyson’s new floor-standing blade-less fans. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American firm Choi + Shine Architects designed these conceptual electricity pylons shaped like human figures to march across the Icelandic landscape. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: designer Jaime Hayón launches a collection of furniture including this tubular club chair (above) for London design brand Sé as part of the London Design Festival this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

CES 2015: German car manufacturer Volkswagen has debuted a gesture-controlled concept model of its popular Golf car at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Swedish design studio Form Us With Love have completed the interior for an exhibition celebrating dapper gentlemen at Nordiska Museet in Stockholm, Sweden. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This funeral home in Alicante, Spain, is by Spanish studio Cor. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Helsinki studio Avanto Architects have completed this house with four wings overlooking four distinct views in Virrat, Finland. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Nick Fraser presents these faceted terracotta plant pots at Clerkenwell Design Week in London this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we have teamed up with Rafael Viñoly Architects to give away five copies of their new monograph, written by Rafael Viñoly and critic Philip Jodidio. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year Rem Koolhaas was named Golden Lion winner by the Venice Architecture Biennale and Snøhetta won a competition to redesign Times Square in New York. The Plastiki boat made of plastic bottles was racing towards Sydney on the last leg of its journey across the Pacific to highlight pollution of the seas. Meanwhile the unpopular Strata tower opened in London just as the RIBA published a survey predicting even tougher times for British architects. Mathieu Lehanneur completed the Pompidou Centre’s new education rooms, Tokujin Yoshioka made a 9-metre window from 500 glass prisms and Dezeen published movie interviews with Philippe Malouin and Tomo…

Shimmering panels of stainless steel create the appearance of a rippling lake above the heads of shoppers at a supermarket in Moscow. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Beijing Design Week 2011: visitors were served tea at a heat-sensitive colour-changing table in a pop-up teahouse for Beijing Design Week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Israeli designer Ayala Serfaty’s new collection of sculptural furniture and lighting includes upholstered pieces resembling lichen-covered stone. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article