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Design studio Doone Silver Kerr turned a stack of used shipping containers into a hotel and wine bar with a geometric facade of welded fins that function as sunshades. Read more View the full article

Opinion: shocking new statistics about the mental health of architecture students in the UK should be a wake-up call for both architects and educators, says Robert Mull. (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

Dezeen has teamed up with Google for today's UK launch of the Field Trip app, which provides contextual information about your surroundings wherever you go. (more...) View the full article

Prints of the London 2012 Aquatics Centre by photographer Luke Hayes are now on display in The Changing Room, a space at Dezeen Super Store that is given over to a different creative each week to showcase their products or artwork. (more…) View the full article

London-based studio Ab Rogers Design has designed a range of furniture for student accommodation company Scape. Read more View the full article

Dutch design studio Overtreders W has used a bold colour palette and an elaborate pipe network to give a concert-hall cafe a cheap but cheerful makeover (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The age-defining rings of a tree stump provided the starting point for this small round house planned by design collective Penda for a wood-carving artist in Beijing (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The strength of polyester, aluminium and steel dictated the size of tables in this series by Belgian architects Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers are comparing OMA's design for a pair of towers in New York to the work of fellow architecture studio BIG. Read more

Breaking news: the Salone del Mobile furniture fair in Milan has been postponed until 16 to 21 June in response to Italy's coronavirus outbreak. Read more View the full article

Several architecture projects have recently been proposed or completed with hexagonal grids across their fronts. Here are half a dozen examples covered with six-sided shapes. Read more View the full article

World Architecture Festival: a community space in Ho Chi Minh City designed by local firm a21studio and built using recycled materials and colourful fabric has been named World Building of the Year 2014 at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

American designer Anna Meddaugh has created a personal urinal that women in refugee camps can use in shelters at night to avoid the threat of sexual violence outside. Read more View the full article

A plant-covered twisting tower shaped like a DNA strand by Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut is under construction in Taipei, Taiwan (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architect Frank Gehry has revisited the rippled form of his recent New York skyscraper for the design of a 22-storey tower in his hometown of Santa Monica, California. (more...) View the full article

Bleachers climb over the roof of this timber-clad community centre in France by Ateliers O-S Architectes (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Amsterdam studio BCXSY has launched a crowdfunding campaign to produce its plush toys with body parts that can be interchanged using magnets (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Designer Job Smeets has issued a spoof video claiming police will not let him leave his home after the disappearance of a solid-gold artwork by his friend Maurizio Cattelan. Read more

Lithuanian design and architecture studio YCL has used furniture to add pops of colour to the interiors of an otherwise monochromatic apartment in Strasbourg, France (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A McDonald's restaurant and a petrol station are concealed within this faceted glass shell in Georgia, designed by architect Giorgi Khmaladze (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival: Dezeen is hosting a series of innovative daily live shows at 100% Design, continuing today at 5pm with London designers Dominic Wilcox (above) and Asif Khan, and curator and writer Daniel Charny. (more…) View the full article

Maison&Objet 2013: Swedish designer Mattias Ståhlbom of TAF has created an uplighter for Danish brand Muuto that can be adjusted by rotating the shade. (more...) View the full article

Mineral crystals grown on thin threads form the shape of a chair in this installation by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka. (more...) View the full article

Product news: this doorstop by Belgian designer Cas Moor is shaped like a tiny bird. (more...) View the full article