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News: plans for an apartment block of stackable modules have won a design competition for "micro-units" to help solve the shortage of small homes in Manhattan (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New York agency Pentagram has expanded on iconic album artwork by design duo Hipgnosis to create the visual identity for Pink Floyd Records. Read more View the full article

British designer Samuel Wilkinson has paired steam-bent wood with Vienna straw to create a contemporary dining chair called Latis. Read more

OMA has revealed its plans to renovate and extend three vacant railway buildings in Brussels to create an office for Belgium train operator SNCB. Read more View the full article

Fashion designer Hussein Chalayan has created elasticated costumes and sequinned garments for performers in his first self-directed dance production (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dutch company Ortega has designed an electric submersible for divers, which it claims is the fastest of its kind. Read more View the full article

Stinessen Arkitektur has built three cabins and a sauna on an island in the remote Steigen Archipelago off the coast of Norway in the arctic circle. Read more

With BIG's Amager Bakke Waste-To-Energy Plant due to open in Copenhagen later this year, this movie in our Dezeen x MINI Living series explores how its year-round rooftop ski slope designed by SLA Architects was conceived. Read more View the full article

News: technology company Oculus VR has said it will defend itself "vigorously" against claims that it used the intellectual property and expertise of ZeniMax Media to develop the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. (more...) View the full article

Three-dimensional doodle-like lines form this series of furniture by Korean designer Jeong Greem, which aims to breathe life into mundane, everyday materials. Read more

The German director of the V&A museum in London Martin Roth is stepping down after five years, after describing the results of the EU Referendum as a personal defeat. (more…) View the full article

New York studio GRT Architects has added restored blue bathtubs and green cabinetry to update an early 20th-century townhouse in Brooklyn. Read more

Stockholm 2015: Sweden's Note Design Studio and Denmark's Norm Architects have collaborated to design a collection of tables with mixed-and-matched marble tops for furniture brand Menu. (more…) View the full article

British designer Tom Dixon has created a pink concrete bar, green leather booths and a cabinet of curiosities for London restaurant Bronte (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

We continue our high-tech architecture series with this exclusive video interview in which British architect Nicholas Grimshaw describes the painstaking level of detail required of his landmark station project. Read more View the full article

A grid of muted copper frames the large windows of this slender office building, designed by British architect David Chipperfield for a park-side site in Hangzhou, China (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Swedish designers Folkform have used 80-year-old samples of hardboard in these cabinets for Swedish interiors brand Svenskt Tenn. (more…) View the full article

Clerkenwell Design Week 2014: London design brand Pinch has unveiled a dining chair, armchair, side tables and shelving, as well as additions to its existing range. (more...) View the full article

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions at San Francisco State University, Schmidt Hammer Lasssen Architects and Heatherwick Studio, which recently unveiled a honeycomb of staircases for New York (pictured). This is also the last chance to apply for roles with the Foster + Partners, NBBJ, John Smart Architects and more... (more…) View the full article

We have now announced the winners of the inaugural Dezeen Awards! Read on to find out who took home the top prizes. Read more

All the rooms of this renovated Tokyo house by Japanese studio Naf Architect & Design are connected to a wooden box at its centre. (more…) View the full article

Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A museum in London, has defended the institution's decision to exhibit a section of the Robin Hood Gardens housing estate at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Read more View the full article

British architects Wilkinson Eyre and landscape architects Grant Associates have completed an enormous tropical garden in Singapore filled with tree-like towers, shell-shaped greenhouses and a 30-metre-high man-made waterfall (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Pentagram has given insurance tech company Cytora an animated visual identity that aims to demystify how the business works. Read more View the full article

Fertig Design has created a visual identity for the Re:publica conference that uses lengthy passages of text and typography instead of conventional graphics to pay "homage to the written word". Read more