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Studio Tom Emerson and Taller 5, Mediated Matter Group at MIT and Branch Studio Architects have won awards for the best projects of the year at Dezeen Awards 2019. Read more View the full article

Danish studio Space Copenhagen has overhauled the interior of Copenhagen eatery Noma, which was this year named “World’s Best Restaurant” for the third time in a row (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: one of London's leading universities, already home to the Bartlett School of Architecture, is set to open a school of design at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. (more…) View the full article

Kitchen and bathroom equipment is lowered into islands made from engineered quartz material Caesarstone in this animated preview of an installation for the brand by London studio Raw Edges, to be unveiled in Milan next month (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

French architect Jean Nouvel's Summer Hours in Kensington wallpaper aims to recreate the feeling of a sunny afternoon spent in London's Hyde Park. (more…) View the full article

Woman-only member's club Allbright has opened a venue in London's Mayfair with work exclusively by female artists across its five floors. Read more

Dezeen promotion: the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam is accepting applications to study on its Master of Interior Architecture & Retail Design (MIARD) course. (more...) View the full article

The southernmost tip of Scotland's Isle of Skye is the setting for this small wooden house by local firm Dualchas Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Following two collaborations with designer Yves Béhar, San Francisco sex toy brand Jimmyjane has launched a travel-friendly vibrator, which comes with a lock to avoid accidental activation inside a suitcase. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow feature: following the news that Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto is designing this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, here's a look at some of his best-known projects, including the Final Wooden House made from chunky timber beams and the Tokyo Apartment that comprises four house-shaped apartments stacked on top of each other. (more...) View the full article

Inspired by cigar makers in Spain, Austrian designer Helene Steiner has used thin strips of beech wood rolled into pipes to create a folding chair. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: a collection of furniture designed by Konstantin Grcic for Herzog & de Meuron's Parrish Art Museum in Long Island has gone into production with American brand Emeco. (more...) View the full article

Taiwan designer Kenyon Yeh has developed a simple wooden coat rack that leans up against a wall or corner. (more...) View the full article

MAD co-founder Ma Yansong says that Chinese cities should draw more from the country's traditional architecture, rather than aping the style of western buildings, in the second part of our exclusive video interview. Read more View the full article

An exhibition celebrating the collaboration between Gucci and Icelandic musician Björk has opened in the Gucci Garden museum in Florence. Read more View the full article

David Adjaye's temple-like canopy, Bjarke Ingels' looped auditorium and Sou Fujimoto's spiralling pathway are among the seven shortlisted proposals for an events pavilion in Edinburgh, Scotland. Read more View the full article

Foster + Partners has revealed that it pays women 10.5 per cent less per hour than men, based on the median of its staff's salaries. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Rem Koolhaas of OMA is tipped to be director of the next Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014. Among those speculating on Twitter was assistant director for the 2012 biennale Kieran Long, who tweeted “it’s certain to be Rem Koolhaas next time. Done deal say my sources.” Koolhaas was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2010 biennale. The rumours coincide with the news that Koolhaas will receive the Jencks Award at the RIBA in November. Portrait is by Dominik Gigler. See all our stories about OMA » See all our stories about the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 » View the full article

The UK government has called for experts to help it develop standards for bioplastics and biodegradable plastics, amid rising concern over greenwashing. Read more

Slideshow: oak-lined boxes create study rooms along the corridors of this school in southern Germany by Stuttgart architects Klumpp + Klumpp (photos by Zooey Braun). (more…) View the full article

This house in the English countryside by London firm Wilkinson King Architects features red cedar cladding and a folded roof designed to evoke the line of hills on the horizon (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Riders can use their iPhone as the dashboard for this electric bike designed by Spanish transport firm The Electric Mobility Company. (more...) View the full article

Dutch architecture firm UNStudio has designed a skyscraper for Singapore that looks like a cactus. (more…) View the full article

Swiss company Moving Walls has extended its range of activity-based office furniture with a table that can also be used as a presentation panel for the wall. Read more

The latest issue of Dezeen Mail leads with the popular yet controversial Olympic Cauldron by Thomas Heatherwick (above) plus new jobs, competitions and music. Read Dezeen Mail issue 112 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article