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Show RCA 2011: Royal College of Art graduate Erik de Laurens has made a pair of swimming goggles, spectacles and beakers out of fish scales. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house near Brussels by architects Samyn and Partners has a glass wall at the front and a plant-covered wall by French botanical artist Patrick Blanc at the back. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Electric vehicle brand Arrival has launched a zero-emissions bus aimed at making public transport viable in the coronavirus era. Read more View the full article

Gaetano Pesce implores young designers to consider how to address social issues through their work, which he says has a greater capacity to communicate with people than art, in our latest collaboration with Friedman Benda for VDF. Watch from 11:00am UK time. Read more View the full article

Steven Holl Architects have completed a building conceived as a “horizontal skyscraper”, supported over a landscaped garden in Shenzhen, China. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: prowling leopards and lush foliage feature in Italian brand Fornasetti's latest range of furniture, called Leopardo. Read more View the full article

Architect Johan Berglund of London studio 42 Architects has designed a restaurant that could be embedded in the side of a hill in Östersund, Sweden. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Mexican studio DCPP Arquitectos have designed a home in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, where four roofs slope up from the forest floor. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Charles Hosea has sent us his pictures of this visitor centre in Essex, England, with oversailing wooden roof trusses by UK firm Sarah Wigglesworth Architects. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve just sent out the latest issue of Dezeenmail – have a look at it here. Dezeenmail is sent out roughly every two weeks and contains a selection of Dezeen’s best stories and comments, along with all our latest competitions and jobs. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Bedfordshire office Nicolas Tye Architects set about building this new studio for themselves when the company outgrew a space in the director’s home. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Torafu Architects of Tokyo, Japan have designed a paper container that can be stretched into a vase, plate or bowl. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: the inner rippling patterns of semi-precious stones are featured across the "dreamlike" furniture and fabrics in Fornasetti's Malachite collection. Read more View the full article

These pieces of jewellery by Central Saint Martins graduate Stéphanie Van Zwam are made from plastic bubbles and tubes that float around the wearer’s body (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Dutch architect Winy Maas will join Dezeen in a live Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch here from 4:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Masahiro Kinoshita of KINO architects has completed a house in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, designed to afford views towards the nearby castle from the third floor living room. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: in our second movie filmed at Ventura Lambrate in Milan for our new video website Dezeen Screen, British designer Benjamin Hubert talks about his new Pod Chair, a pressed-felt “privacy” chair created for Dutch brand De Vorm. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This jumbled house in India features an elevated steel tunnel, bridged corridors and a rooftop swimming pool on stilts. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF studio profiles: Lorem Ipsum is a creative studio that crafts exhibitions and experiential installations, such as an audiovisual recreation of an airstrike, that fully immerse visitors in a story. Read more View the full article

This exhibition designed by Gitta Gschwendtner for London’s Somerset House displayed fashion drawings on gauze-covered boxes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house on a rocky hilltop in Sweden by Swedish architect John Robert Nilsson sits upon on a limestone-covered concrete plinth, which provides a continuous floor surface inside and outside of the house. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Seoul designer Jeongmi Lee has designed a conceptual domestic robot that steals your duvet in the morning and poos all over the floor. Watch the movie on Dezeen Screen. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New Designers 2011: product design graduate Ben Fursdon has created the Broo-ver, a broom converted into a vacuum cleaner. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: Italian design house Fornasetti took cues from pop culture and optical illusion art when creating this series of black-and-white Sole A Ventaglio products. Read more View the full article

A forest of timber columns and a stone fireplace feign a woodland campsite inside a visitor centre at the Rocky Mountains. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article