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We've launched our World Design Guide interactive map of the London Design Festival 2013, featuring 100 of the best events across London from 14-22 September. (more...) View the full article

Design studio Waldo Works has completed the interiors of a penthouse apartment inside London's Television Centre, which takes cues from the "pure geometrics" of post-war British aesthetics. Read more View the full article

German artist Tobias Rehberger has created a temporary replica of his favourite Frankfurt bar in a New York hotel and covered the entire thing in bold geometric stripes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Tropical, desert and aquatic plants will be housed in a trio of gridded glass domes at the centre of these botanical gardens planned by Austrian firm Delugan Meissl Associated Architects for Taiyuan, China. (more…) View the full article

Milanese design gallerist Rossana Orlandi is launching a project aimed at changing the perception of plastic and ensuring the material is used responsibly. Read more View the full article

Undulating concrete panels will form the facade of VÅGA, a large water tower planned for a hilltop in Varberg, Sweden, to create the impression of a wave rolling across the landscape. Read more

The illusory shadows of burning candles and unexpected assemblages of decrepit furniture make up the latest collection by British designers JamesPlumb. (more...) View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a paid student internship at Bing Thom Architects in Vancouver, which recently completed an aquatics centre featuring giant trusses and skylights (pictured). More › View the full article

News: the world's largest free-standing museum dedicated to photography is set to be built in Morocco by British firm David Chipperfield Architects. (more...) View the full article

Brazilian studio Pascali Smerdjian Arquitetos has overhauled a São Paulo apartment inside a 1960s building, adding in a semi-circular wooden library to house the owner's extensive book collection. Read more

This swinging sofa by Berlin-based Studio Aisslinger for design brand Vitra isn’t meant for the garden or conservatory but for weary workers in the office. (more…) View the full article

Swiss architecture studio Bureau A has built a pavilion out of recycled windows on the outskirts of Geneva. (more...) View the full article

News: the first glow-in-the-dark road of Daan Roosegaarde's Smart Highway project has opened in Oss, the Netherlands (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016: with many of Spain's young adults unable to find work and forced to move back into their childhood homes, a team of architects has developed plans to make these spaces more suitable for adulthood (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A multifunctional furniture unit made up of raised plywood floors and pegboard walls allows residents in this public-housing complex in Osaka to customise their apartments. Read more View the full article

Welcome to our A-Zdvent calendar! As we count down to Christmas we’ll be showcasing a house named after every letter of the alphabet. First up is House A in Osaka by architect Takeshi Hamada with a stark concrete gallery on the ground floor. Read more about House A | See all our stories about houses View the full article

This house by Portuguese architect Miguel Marcelino rests on top of an old warehouse in Torres Novas, central Portugal (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese houses are a perennial favourite with Dezeen readers, but the country's architects also apply similar design principles to hair salon interiors. Examples include a minimal salon in Osaka with space for just one customer, a hairdresser's divided with plants and mirrored screens, and a beautician's featuring crimped screens and golden curtains. See more Japanese hair salons » 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

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

Comments update: readers have been discussing sexism this International Women's Day after comments posted on Dezeen focused on Odile Decq's style rather than the French architect's architectural achievements. (more…) View the full article

Creative agency Heimat Berlin used images of lettering graffitied onto the Berlin Wall to create this typeface commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the barrier separating East and West Berlin. Read more View the full article

Stockholm-based Studio EO has designed a collection of sculptural vases that contrast hand-blown glass containers with wedges of granite, marble and onyx (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week the architecture world mourned the loss of two pioneers: 2015 Pritzker Prize laureate Frei Otto, whose research helped revolutionise structural design, and Michael Graves, designer of Postmodernist icon the Portland Building. Read on to catch up with the latest architecture, interiors and design news, plus our track of the week. (more…)

Australian studio CplusC Architectural Workshop has extended a house in a Sydney suburb so that it looks like a doll’s house with the back wall taken off (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article