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Canadian design firm McLeod Bovell has created a two-storey dwelling for a sloped site with sea views, with a bright red facade and a rear volume that cantilevers over a swimming pool. Read more View the full article

Aiming to change our attitudes towards menstruation, Central Saint Martins graduate Kaye Toland has developed a tampon delivery system that transforms sanitary products into compost. Read more View the full article

These models by New York studio Boym Partners are used to unlock and download DJ Matthew Dear’s latest album, entitled Black City, and you can download a free track from the album here. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Beijing-based MDDM Studio has extended a house near the Great Wall of China by transforming a nearby storage unit into minimalist living quarters. Read more

Bold red and yellow furnishings break up the otherwise pale interiors of this office in China, which MDDM Studio created inside a 1950s fabric factory. Read more

Yellow walls meet stark-white furnishings and colourful terrazzo fixtures inside this bright Beijing apartment, which has been overhauled by MDDM Studio. Read more View the full article

MDDM has revealed visuals of a subterranean business park that is set to reinvigorate Oscar Niemeyer's unfinished Rashid Karame International Fair expo site in Lebanon. Read more

Naruse House by MDS has been clad using the traditional Japanese technique of Yakisugi, which involves charring cedar wood to create a blackened, weather-resistant surface that resists decay (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: these mirrors by London designer Mathias Hahn can be swivelled up and down with wooden handles sticking out the sides. (more...) View the full article

Australian studio b.e. Architecture have completed a house surrounded by a steel and timber timber grid in coastal Victoria, Australia. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Central Saint Martins College of Art student Jeremy Innes-Hopkins has developed kits for throwing together meals from ready-prepared raw ingredients. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A curving concrete canopy supported by hundreds of columns loops around the perimeter of this renovated beach club in the Azerbaijani capital Baku by Istanbul architects Erginoğlu & Çalışlar (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Graphic designer Peter Saville has created the prints and typography on these shoes by fashion brand Y-3 for sports label Adidas (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Prints by graphic designer Peter Saville adorn the garments and footwear in fashion brand Y-3's Spring Summer 2014 collection. (more...) View the full article

Japanese designer Hiroyuki Miyake‘s calendar works like a retractable tape measure, with one centimetre for each day of the year. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Measured Architecture has completed a family residence in Vancouver that features an exterior made from blackened steel and wood-marked concrete (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A team of illustrators and graphic artists camped out for a week in this Rococo-style dome hidden under a carpark in Soho, London, covering every surface and arch with a sinister, sprawling illustration for new restaurant and bar Meat Liquor. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish architects BIG and French studio FREAKS freearchitects have designed a cultural centre for Bordeaux with a huge stage in its middle. (more…) View the full article

The Longgang Cultural Centre in Shenzhen, China, occupies a row of angular four red buildings designed by Mecanoo. Read more

Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo has won a competition to masterplan a commercial district in Shenzhen, China, with its design for 12 stepped skyscrapers built around a park featuring a raised path and pools. Read more View the full article

News: Dutch architects Mecanoo have won a competition to design a garden and an underground pavilion with a corkscrew staircase in the Polish capital, Warsaw (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Mecanoo has released visuals of Frankfurt Grand Central, a residential complex in Frankfurt, Germany, that will feature a copper-coloured tower. Read more

Dutch firm Mecanoo has unveiled plans for a £350 million engineering school at The University of Manchester in the UK. (more…) View the full article

Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo has created a golden hued events pavilion with a broad scooped roof in the grounds of a historic chateau near Maastricht. Read more View the full article

This pale brick building for Dutch financial services company Rabobank has been purposefully designed by architecture studio Mecanoo to "not look like a bank" (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article