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Slideshow: a select number of garments at this fashion store in Osaka are presented inside a white cage-like tunnel. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architects Ninkipen! have planted a tree at the centre of this hair salon in Kadoma and surrounded it with mirrored A-frames. (more…) View the full article

A Mies van der Roe Dip, an Odile Decquiri cocktail and Florence Knoll Rolls are among the recipes in a tongue-in-cheek cookbook by New York artist Esther Choi. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have announced 25 new additions to the World Heritage List, including the Fagus Factory by Walter Gropius as reported yesterday, but deferred an application for the inclusion of 19 buildings by Modernist architect Le Corbusier, referring the decision to the next committee meeting. See the full list of accepted applications here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

World Heritage Corb: the lakeside home Le Corbusier designed for his parents is next up in our series in which we take a closer look at the 17 projects recently added to UNESCO's World Heritage List. (more…) View the full article

A retrospective on the life and work of Le Corbusier opens today at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. This selection of drawings and paintings by the architect documents the various stages of his career, as presented in the exhibition. (more...) View the full article

World Heritage Corb: we're revisiting some of Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier's most important projects, to mark the addition of 17 of his buildings to UNESCO's World Heritage list. First up is his seaside holiday cabin, Cabanon, on the Côte d'Azur in France – a tiny building tied to some of the most important moments in the architect's life. (more…) View the full article

World Heritage Corb: for the next instalment in our series on the 17 Le Corbusier buildings added to UNESCO's World Heritage list, Australian photographer Benjamin Hosking shares new images of Capitol Complex in Chandigarh – the Indian city that gave the architect a chance to test his Modernist theories on a grand scale (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

World Heritage Corb: French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier's humble hosiery factory in France was one of the first buildings designed with proportions based on his innovative Modulor system, and has recently been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

World Heritage Corb: the long-neglected housing complex designed by French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier for workers of a sugar factory outside Bordeaux, recently added to UNESCO's World Heritage List, has found a new life as desirable apartments. (more…) View the full article

World Heritage Corb: long before he built the famed Cité Radieuse in Marseille, French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier explored similar housing principles for the 1932 Immeuble Clarté in Geneva – one of 17 of his buildings added to UNESCO's World Heritage list (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

World Heritage Corb: a 1930s apartment building in Paris designed by French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier, intended to afford residents a contemporary lifestyle, is among his projects recently added to UNESCO's World Heritage List (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

An apartment in Berlin's Unité d'Habitation has been refurbished by German-American architect Philipp Mohr to Le Corbusier's original plans. Read more View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: German architect Valentin Bontjes van Beek and students from the Architectural Association in London have built a full-size model of Le Corbusier's seminal Maison Dom-Ino in the Giardini of the Venice Biennale (photos by Luke Hayes). (more...) View the full article

World Heritage Corb: next in our series on the 17 Le Corbusier buildings that have been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List is Maison La Roche-Jeanneret in Paris – designed to provide a home for the architect's brother and a separate residence and gallery for a friend with a collection of cubist art (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

World heritage Corb: one of French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier's lesser-known buildings among the 17 recently added to UNESCO's World Heritage List is a concrete museum in Tokyo, which holds a collection dedicated to western thought and art. (more…) View the full article

Le Corbusier's seminal Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut becomes a huge canvas for graffiti in these fictional images created by Belgian photographer Xavier Delory. (more…) View the full article

World Heritage Corb: one of the most important buildings by architect Le Corbusier from the 17 that have been to UNESCO's World Heritage List is Villa Savoye, the top-heavy weekend retreat created as a Modernist version of the French country house (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen has sunk a scale model of one of Le Corbusier's most famous buildings in a Danish fjord, as a statement about the Brexit vote and Donald Trump's election. Read more View the full article

World heritage Corb: two residential units in Stuttgart designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret have recently been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List along with 16 other projects by the famed French-Swiss architect (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Pavilion Le Corbusier, has reopened to the public in Zurich after architects Silvio Schmed and Arthur Rüegg restored the art museum to its original state. Read more

Dezeen promotion: Le French Design by VIA has unveiled a list of leading and emerging designers and interior designers who are conveying the essential values of French design. Read more

Belgian practice MDW Architecture has completed a residential complex in Brussels using industrial materials that reference the site’s former use as a scrap metal dealership (photos by Julien Lanoo). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some photos of the recently-completed mixed-use urban block Le Monolith in Lyon, France, masterplanned by Dutch studio MVRDV and designed by five different architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designers Zébra3/Buy-­Sellf have designed a prefabricated holiday home in the shape of a cloud that sits next to a lake in south-west France (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article