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This week on Dezeen, IKEA revealed its new furniture that can be assembled without screws and BIG launched its own in-house engineering department. Read more View the full article

Stools with "wild simplicity" and colourful storage boxes feature in the debut series of a new Montreal furniture brand. Read more

Proposals for a travelling kitchen and a website that enables refugees to sell their own photographs are included in the five winning projects of the first What Design Can Do Refugee Challenge. (more…) View the full article

White metal louvres covering the facade of this apartment block in Paris can be drawn across windows and balconies to screen against the sun and street. Read more View the full article

US studio Duvall Decker Architects has created a residence in central Mississippi that is "shaped to draw the outdoors in and lure the family out" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Polish designer Kamila Rudnicka has created an artificial insemination tool that doubles up as a sex toy, in the hopes of restoring pleasure to an often clinical process. Read more View the full article

Test tubes of olive oil line one wall of this high-tech workshop designed for Michelin-starred chef Paco Roncero by Spanish studio Carmen Baselga Taller de Proyectos. (more…) View the full article

Tasked with creating a spacious family home on a former Quaker settlement, Bates Masi Architects has built a house that celebrates simple forms and materials. Read more View the full article

Sculptor Benjamin Gilbert worked with architecture studio Archier to build his own family house on a former gold mine and sawmill, using reclaimed concrete blocks and rough-sawn macrocarpa wood (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

High-tech was the last major architecture style of the 20th century. This overview by Owen Hopkins kicks off our series exploring the high-tech movement. Read more View the full article

This week on Dezeen: this week Moby slammed the ergonomics of a Zaha Hadid-designed hotel room, while Nicholas Serota waded into the feud between Neo Bankside residents and Tate Modern. (more…) View the full article

This week a museum housing sixteenth century Tudor warship the Mary Rose opened, proposals for transforming New York's Penn station went head-to head and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art expansion broke ground. Scroll on for more highlights and Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: a conversion of New York's JFK terminal building and a brutalist boutique in the historical centre of Oaxaca, Mexico, are among the projects to be shortlisted in this year's AHEAD Americas awards. Read more View the full article

New York architect David Rockwell explains how constructing a narrative can guide the design of hospitality spaces in this video produced by Dezeen for the AHEAD Awards. Read more

This scale-covered cabinet by Swedish designer Jenny Ekdahl is intended to help victims of natural disasters to recover from their traumatic experiences. (more…) View the full article

This money box by London designer Sebastian Bergne displays your savings on the wall like a picture. (more…) View the full article

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Architects Carmody Groarke have transformed an abandoned canal-side petrol station in north London into a temporary restaurant and events space with fluted walls. (more…) View the full article

The UK-based Centre for Process Innovation has unveiled its vision for an airplane cabin with no windows at all, instead projecting 360-degree views from outside throughout the interior using flexible screens built into the fabric of the cabin. (more...) View the full article

The 10 winning design projects for Dezeen Awards 2019 have been revealed. The list includes public seating that doubles up as a barrier, a silent wearable breast pump and a self-cleaning water bottle. Read more View the full article

Two clients joined forces to commission one building with two separate homes by Buenos Aires studio Hitzig Militello Arquitectos, which has been coloured grey to contrast with its neighbours (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Slideshow: following our earlier story about a university in the Moroccan desert with a sandy red exterior, here’s a school of technology in the nearby town of Guelmim with walls covered in the same grainy render. (more…) View the full article

Clusters of diagonal columns splay out like tree branches inside this house completed by Japanese architect Kensuke Watanabe in the seaside city Kamakura. Read more View the full article

Italian rug manufacturer Cc-Tapis brings contemporary ideas and processes to the traditional handicraft of Tibetan rug-knotting with their latest collections, presented in an "architectural" campaign called Spectrum. Read more

News: the Sainsbury Laboratory by Stanton Williams has been awarded the 2012 RIBA Stirling Prize for the most significant contribution to British architecture this year. (more…) View the full article