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French designer Claire Lavabre has made a mirror that only works when it's placed in front of a dark shape painted on the wall. (more...) View the full article

Revellers at a Tasmanian music festival were invited to cool off inside this wooden pavilion filled with Aesop products, designed by architecture studio Partners Hill (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Scientists at a Spanish university are developing a new type of concrete that captures rainwater to create living walls of moss and fungi. (more...) View the full article

Dutch firm MVRDV has unveiled plans for an office block with an interactive mirrored facade in the city of Esslingen in southern Germany. Read more View the full article

Opinion: LACMA's newly inherited Sheats-Goldstein House could place classic mid-century houses at the heart of Los Angeles' cultural revival, says Mimi Zeiger. (more…) View the full article

The skinny west wing of this Tokyo house by Hiroyuki Shinozaki Architects is nine metres high, but less than two metres wide. (more…) View the full article

British-Ghanaian artist Larry Achiampong has replaced the well-known blue, red and white design of London Underground's roundel with colours and patterns from the pan-African flag. Read more View the full article

Belgian studio GAFPA has slotted a timber-framed house inside the steel skeleton of a disused stonemason's atelier in Ghent, and transformed a former outbuilding into a walled garden (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Japanese studio SANAA has completed a sinuous building of glass, concrete, steel and wood that winds across the landscape of a nature reserve in New Canaan, Connecticut. (more…) View the full article

Installations were bigger than ever in 2018, from a six-metre-high Trump blimp to an inflatable mirrored sphere at Burning Man festival. For our review of 2018, social media editor Sabina Sohail selects her top 10. Read more

Casson Mann used 3D laser scanning to create replicas of 20,000-year-old cave paintings at the Lascaux International Centre for Cave Art, which won Interiors Project of the Year at Dezeen Awards 2018. The designers explain their process in this movie. Read more

New Chinese Architecture is a new book spotlighting the country's emerging architectural talents, all of whom happen to be women. Author Austin Williams talks Dezeen through five of the most exciting architects and their projects. Read more

We are now offering FREE SHIPPING on all UK orders at Dezeen Watch Store. Visit the store for our full selection of carefully curated timepieces by leading designers and independent brands including Hong Kong watch brand Ziiiro (pictured above). (more…) View the full article

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has designed a 20-sided wireless speaker that can rest on any of its triangular faces. (more...) View the full article

In our latest competition, we've teamed up with MAD Architects to give away five copies of a book outlining the studio's 10 most significant projects. Read more View the full article

Japanese architect Takato Tamagami has completed two homes in Tokyo that are tangled around each other. (more…) View the full article

Foster + Partners has unveiled designs for a NASA Mars settlement for four astronauts that could be 3D printed by a team of semi-autonomous robots (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architect Sean Griffiths has unveiled plans to add a shed-inspired roof extension to the Blue House, one of the best-known projects of his former studio FAT. (more…) View the full article

Microsoft has rethought the packaging design for its Xbox Adaptive Controller, in a bid to make it easier to open for gamers with limited mobility. Read more View the full article

Opinion: Glasgow's Commonwealth Games is the latest major international sports event to be mired in controversy over the relocation of residents to make way for grand urban projects and "regeneration", says Neil Gray. (more...) View the full article

Jackets with overblown, down-filled forms feature in menswear designer Craig Green's collection for fashion brand Moncler's ongoing Genius project. Read more View the full article

This house by Japanese firm Naya Architects is so closely surrounded by apartment blocks that its walls have to lean away from them. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Paint brand Dulux has included a "soothing" palette of soft, pastel colours called Dream in its trends forecast for 2019. Read more

Insulation, cladding and decorative fins added to the exterior of Grenfell Tower during refurbishment made it noncompliant with building regulations, the inquiry into the disaster has found. Read more View the full article

This time last year Dezeen focussed on car design, filming a movie about the Jaguar C-X75 electric concept car, boosted by jet engines, and rounding up our top ten cars of all time from the pages of Dezeen. (more…) View the full article