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Despite living in hilly San Francisco, designer Yves Behar of fuseproject has created a tricycle for local living. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

News: American college student Tyler McNaney has invented a desktop machine that makes the raw materials for 3D printing by grinding up waste plastic from bottles, wrappers and even Lego bricks. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: online brand Made.com is inviting budding designers to submit furniture and homeware designs for compact urban dwellings to its annual Emerging Talent Award 2016 competition. (more…) View the full article

New Zealand furniture brand Resident will launch their inaugural collection at designjunction during the London Design Festival next week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has filled Moroso‘s showroom with mist to present his new Moon chair for the Italian brand in Milan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Week nine of Virtual Design Festival featured live interviews with Barnaba Fornasetti and Ini Archibong, as well as a celebration of World Oceans Day and the 2020 AHEAD Americas awards. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: a new exhibition documenting the career of Terence Conran has provoked a flurry of media interest in the man who founded retail brand Habitat and London’s Design Museum. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: German magazine Form reports that industrial designer Konstantin Grcic has been appointed design consultant to German football club Bayern München – www.form.de Related: see all our stories about Konstantin Grcic in our special category. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Gabled wooden structures encasing glass-walled living spaces will distinguish a group of treehouses that Peter Pichler Architecture has designed for a forest in Kitzbühel, Austria. Read more View the full article

An exhibition of new work by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec has opened at Galerie Kreo in Paris. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year the Venice Architecture Biennale was underway, where Rem Koolhaas was awarded the Golden Lion as OMA unveiled their design for the renovation of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi in Venice. Our favourite pavilions included a forest of acrylic fronds that moved as though breathing in the Canadian pavilion, a cloud suspended inside the Arsenale exhibition space and a blue foam model city in the Dutch pavilion. Meanwhile we previewed the new identity for Dezeen Watch Store, which launched the following month. Umbro released the new England Home Kit by graphic design legend Peter Saville, Biomega presented a range of bicycles for Puma, C. F. Møller w…

Scroll down for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs, including positions with the Design Museum in London and BIG architects in Copenhagen, plus this is the last chance to apply for jobs with Marcel Wanders Studio, MVRDV, Vitsœ and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

California firm LOHA has incorporated stepped terraces and outdoor corridors into this four-storey apartment building in Los Angeles. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: here’s a preview of work by young and upcoming designers at trade show Decorex International 2011, which takes place 25-28 September in London, including furniture by Gareth Neal (above). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: Slovenian lighting brand Vertigo Bird present new lamps by designers including Mathias Hahn, Uli Budde and A + A Cooren as part of Tortona Design Week in Milan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen have teamed up with authors Ruairi Glynn and Sara Shafiei to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of their new book Digital Architecture: Passages through Hinterlands. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Venetian office AMAA has converted an abandoned plumbing factory into an architecture studio with a rough-and-ready character. Read more View the full article

This rehabilitation centre in a Dutch forest by Architectenbureau Koen van Velsen is one of six projects to be shortlisted for this year’s Mies van der Rohe Award. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Makiko Nakamura will exhibit a tea set engulfed in flowers and foliage at Tent London during the London Design Festival next month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

After hours, rolling metal shutters fasten across these New York apartments designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An arc of clerestory windows set between narrow stone fins channels daylight into the theatre at the Stirling Prize shortlisted Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre designed by Niall McLaughlin Architects. Read more View the full article

Argetinian studio Adamo-Faiden have installed a fabric tensile structure across the roof of this renovated apartment in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Featured architects: Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron are our featured architects at the moment. Browse all Dezeen’s stories about them in this special category. Enjoy! Featured architects: Herzog & de Meuron Above (from left): Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron. Portrait © HamburgMusik/Michael Zapf. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Estonian architects Urmas Muru and Peeter Pere have designed a house for a fishing village near Tallinn, covered in shingles on all surfaces except for one white concrete wall. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designer and artist Joep van Lieshout talks to Dezeen about his sculptures depicting cannibalism and suicide in this interview recorded at the Carpenter’s Workshop Gallery in London, and how “industry itself needs to be saved” so he plans to “start producing from scratch again” (+ audio). (more…) View the full article