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Leopold Banchini Architects gave the House for Architectural Heritage in Muharraq, Bahrain, retractable glass walls that open it up to its surroundings. Read more

Alessandro Mendini, the Italian designer, theorist and editor who passed away this week, speaks to Dezeen about how design magazines have lost their critical edge in this interview recorded in 2015. Read more

Bureau de Change has completed The Interlock, a mixed-use building in London with a facade made from matte blue bricks that "appear to twist like cogs". Read more

Amin Taha and his studio Groupwork's block at 168 Upper Street is a misremembered copy of a lost four-storey pavilion, reconstructed in terracotta-coloured concrete to complete a terrace in London. Read more

Creative agency StyleMood has transformed a 19th-century firehouse in New York City into this cosy members' club. Read more

The Consumer Electronics Show has returned the Innovations award it rescinded from female-led sex toy company Lora DiCarlo earlier this year, following accusations of gender bias in the tech industry. Read more

With New York's 12-day-long festival NYCxDesign now over, US editor Eleanor Gibson picks out the emerging American designers and studios that stood out. Read more

A roughly plastered wall curves over the dining area of this restaurant in Toronto, designed by local studio Odami. Read more

Burkinabe architect Diébédo Francis Kéré used sick and dead trees to build this pavilion at the Tippet Rise Art Centre in Montana, USA. Read more

A screwdriver, drawer knobs and a pipe are among the objects that Berkeley studio Envelope A+D has used as beer taps in this industrial-style restaurant in San Francisco. Read more

The latest edition of Dezeen Weekly includes a bespoke ring cut from a single block of diamond designed by Jony Ive and Marc Newson and an L-shaped office slotted into a narrow alleyway in Tokyo. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly › Read more

The European Commission has ratified "right to repair" regulations, which will require manufacturers to design longer-lasting products and make spare parts readily available in a push to reduce waste. Read more

ÉCAL graduate Luisa Kahlfeldt has designed a new diaper that is more sustainable than even other reusable cloth nappies — an innovation for which she won the Swiss James Dyson Award. Read more View the full article

A Han Solo pan and a Dutch oven with Darth Vader's mask on the lid feature in a kitchenware collaboration between Star Wars and Le Creuset. Read more View the full article

In our latest competition, we're offering our readers the chance to stay at the Ameron Frankfurt Neckarvillen Boutique hotel, which occupies a series of historic buildings at the heart of the German city's centre. Read more View the full article

Fragmented wood-clad walls enclose outdoor patios that wrap this remote Oregon house by local firm Hacker Architects. Read more View the full article

American studio LMN Architects has renovated and expanded a 1930s, art deco-style museum in Seattle, making sure to preserve "the architectural legacy of the historic building". Read more View the full article

Frankfurt's Light + Building has become the latest design fair to be postponed over coronavirus fears, and will now take place in September instead of March. Read more View the full article

Dezeen's Face to Face podcast series continues with an interview with designer Thomas Heatherwick, who talks about his childhood fascination with engineering, his distaste for architectural discourse and how he completed his first building while still a student. Read more View the full article

Designers share on Instagram the tiny clay versions of their ideal homes they created to keep busy while in isolation. Read more View the full article

Argentinean architect Alejandro Sticotti has elevated a wood-clad box above the glazed kitchen and dining room of his family's holiday home on the coast of Uruguay. Read more View the full article

Clancy Moore Architects has overhauled a Dublin warehouse, creating a light-filled home and studio for photographer Fionn McCann and his family. Read more View the full article

Royal College of Art students Sandeep Hoonjan and Xianzhi Zhang have designed a pair of devices that allow people to physically experience conversations while apart during the coronavirus lockdown. Read more View the full article

Athens designer Yiannis Ghikas has designed a coat rack comprising three Y-shaped components leaning against each other. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: The freestanding bathtub and basin created by Patricia Urquiola as part of her Sonar collection for Laufen feature a gently rippled exterior that mimics the way sound waves travel through water. Read more View the full article