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Clerkenwell Design Week 2014: British design brand Another Country has collaborated with New York studio Workstead to produce a lighting collection formed from reconfigurable metal rods. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: developing "living architecture" could help humanity survive, claims senior University of Greenwich lecturer Rachel Armstrong, who is investigating how we could grow a city in space. (more...) View the full article

Alternating cubes of timber and glass cover the back of this Sydney house extension by Australian office Panovscott, offering a balance of light, shade, views and privacy. (more...) View the full article

Input Creative Studio has created a New York studio for a children's portrait photographer with a playhouse-shaped niche in one wall (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Behind the traditional ceramic-tiled facade of this nineteenth-century building, Portuguese studio OODA has completed a modern renovation to create 14 studio flats (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A series of wooden partitions divide the interior of this apartment in Tokyo by local architects Camp Design Inc, creating a multilayered space with hidden alcoves and areas (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Vertical aluminium slats screen the exterior and windows of this house in Kuwait by Studio Toggle, providing shade and privacy for the residents. (more...) View the full article

A growing number of designers have been experimenting with digital manufacturing to create unusual wallpaper patterns, so we've collected together the best examples from the pages of Dezeen. See our new wallpaper Pinterest board» See our new Pinterest board | Follow Dezeen on Pinterest View the full article

News: the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has saved most of the structure and "the majority of its contents" but is still working to extinguish the fire that ripped through the Mackintosh building earlier today. (more...) View the full article

Plinths filled with tropical trees and plants were designed by Swiss studio Big-Game, to showcase the finalists of a design prototype competition in Paris organised by fashion house Hermès. (more...) View the full article

Artist duo Sofie Lachaert and Luc d'Hanis have recreated a terrace of workers' cottages to house an exhibition of their work at Belgium's Grand-Hornu Images museum (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: the international architecture community is in mourning for Mackintosh's masterpiece as tributes pour in for "immeasurably" influential building. (more...) View the full article

News: witness reports people crying in the street as "nightmare" fire continues to burn at the Mackintosh-designed Glasgow School of Art. (more...) View the full article

News: fire crews are battling to save Glasgow School of Art, the masterpiece designed by Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, from a fire that is engulfing the building. (more...) View the full article

Movie: Marc Viardot of Swiss bathroom brand Laufen explains the concept behind two installations by Konstantin Grcic and Toan Nguyen, which showcased the company's new slimline SaphirKeramik product in Milan. (more...) View the full article

News: "In the spirit of Steve Jobs, when I identify that I am no longer 'with it' I'll retire," says Norman Foster as his firm is named Britain's biggest practice. (more...) View the full article

Skylights puncture the gabled roof of this suburban house in Montreal by Canadian studio Naturehumaine, while a sheltered terrace overlooks a wooded garden (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Brightly-coloured etchings appear when visitors scratch the surface of walls and furniture in this installation by Israeli designer Itay Ohaly at Israel's Design Museum Holon (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Corners appear to have been sliced away from the cantilevered concrete upper floor of this house in Indonesia by Jakarta studio SUB. (more...) View the full article

News: installations including a "gigantic scale" rotating sculpture by Barber and Osgerby, a garden installation by Zaha Hadid and a swarm of drones have been announced for this year's London Design Festival in September. (more...) View the full article

Fashion house Maison Martin Margiela has created its first wallcovering collection: a range of five wallpapers for Belgian brand Omexco. (more...) View the full article

News: a political party has been ordered to pay Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava over £24,000 in damages after being found guilty of defamation with a website that accused him of "bleeding Valencia dry". (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Michiel van Raaij, editor-in-chief of Dutch architecture blog Architectenweb, to give away five copies of his new book Building as Ornament. (more...) View the full article

News: New York-based architect Daniel Libeskind has proposed a twisted reptilian structure for the first ever expo pavilion for a stand-alone Chinese company (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Two light-filled courtyards and a private parking space are concealed behind the metal-clad facade of this small house in Osaka, Japan, by local firm Arbol Design (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article