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Helsinki's new art museum Amos Rex proves that importing an international brand, like the Guggenheim, isn't the only way to create a blockbuster tourist attraction, argues Dezeen deputy editor Tom Ravenscroft. Read more View the full article

Brooklyn firm Studio Tack has revamped a mid-century motel on the North Fork of Long Island to include cabin-like bedrooms and a restaurant that feels "like a ferry crossing the sound". Read more

Dezeen promotion: the winners of this year's A' Design Award and Competition include a pair of holiday homes, a wedge-shaped office block and a modular furniture system that can be rearranged for different uses (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Brazilian designer Bianca Cheng Costanzo has created a woollen blanket from 180 triangles hand-sewn into tessellated pyramids (+ slideshow). (more…)

For our review of 2019, design and technology reporter Natashah Hitti selects 10 transport designs that turned our readers' heads, from the world's most expensive supercar to a small autonomous robot that delivers packages. La Voiture Noire by Bugatti Built as a one-off and sold to an anonymous enthusiast for €11 million, the La Voiture Noire supercar has been billed as "the most expensive new car of all time", and was one of our most popular transport stories of 2019. The La Voiture Noire – French for "the black car" – was intended as a modern interpretation of the classic Bugatti Type 57, designed by founder Ettore Bugatti's son, Jean, in the 1930s, and boasts a 16…

Dezeen Music Project: in the first of a new series of stories about music videos, creative duo Joe Stevens and Nicolas Randall discuss their movie featuring a group of street dancers spinning signs to the beat of Daft Punk's new single, Lose Yourself to Dance (+ movie + interview). (more...) View the full article

Tom Dixon has expanded his presence in London's King's Cross by opening a restaurant, which features a host of his own designs set against brick, steel and soot-hued surfaces. Read more View the full article

Shiplap siding, glazed walls and large hip roofs form the exterior of holiday homes designed by Canadian studio MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects for an upscale resort island in Ontario's Muskoka region. Read more

Twenty-five thousand brown paper lunch bags line the wall and ceiling of OWEN, a new fashion boutique in New York’s Meatpacking District by Jeremy Barbour of Brooklyn architects Tacklebox. (more…) View the full article

New York 2016: the annual NYCxDesign festival is underway, and Dezeen's Dan Howarth has selected seven of the showrooms and exhibitions not to miss during the citywide event. (more…) View the full article

This week five years ago it seemed like everyone was talking about the logo created by graphic designers Wolff Olins for the London 2012 Olympics. British tabloid The Sun claimed the accompanying video could trigger epileptic fits, while Dezeen readers couldn’t believe it cost £400,000 and even questioned whether it was a hoax. (more…) View the full article

Fashion designer Iris van Herpen took inspiration from artist Anthony Howe's kinetic sculptures when creating this series of delicate and hypnotic garments for Paris Haute Couture week. Read more

British designer Tom Dixon will show his latest range of brass home accessories based on cogs at the Maison&Objet trade fair later this month. (more...) View the full article

These felt elephant toys by German designer Daniel Böttcher are available at our pop-up design emporium Dezeen Super Store at 38 Monmouth Street, Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London WC2. (more…) View the full article

Clothing can be tucked away behind the textile skins of these storage units by German designer Meike Harde. (more...) View the full article

Passengers flying on US airline Delta will be able to eat their in-flight meals from tableware by designers Patricia Urquiola, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, and Humberto and Fernando Campana from next month. Read more View the full article

These silicone plates designed by Royal College of Art graduate Lina Saleh wobble and jiggle to influence how diners experience their dinner. Read 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

This corrugated metal and concrete office block by Santiago studio Umwelt has a slab and frame construction modelled on Le Corbusier's Maison Dom-ino prototype for customisable housing (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

American company UPS is testing a drone-launching delivery truck that it hopes will make its parcel service more efficient in rural locations. Read more View the full article

Appareil Architecture entirely renovated this Montreal duplex to restore existing elements of the structure, extend the home with an additional floor, and bring more light to the interiors. Read more View the full article

Four "legs" support the upper level of this house in Portland, Oregon – a design intended to offer the openness of a glass house, without compromising on privacy (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This mixed-use complex in Rotterdam by Mei Architecten en Stedenbouwers features a tower with protruding storage areas that look like welding masks bolted onto the facade. (more...) View the full article

Australian studio BoardGrove Architects has designed a pair of steel tables made from opposing forms that appear to have been cut from the same piece (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Five years ago Dezeen travelled to Basel, Switzerland, for the annual Design Miami/Basel fair, where a host of designers including Martino Gamper, Tom Dixon, Maarten Baas, Max Lamb and Kiki van Eijk were creating objects and furniture in front of visitors at the height of the fashion for design performances. (more…) View the full article