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A concrete kitchen worktop doubles up as a dining room floor inside this renovated house in Porto by Portugeuse studio Ezzo (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Bjarke Ingels' firm has unveiled plans to build a school in Arlington, Virginia, featuring a fan-like plan that creates cascading roof terraces (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Taiwanese studio A Little Design has renovated a 22-metre-square micro apartment to serve every need of its occupant (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Manhattan studio JacobsChang designed this tiny blackened timber cabin on a shoestring budget for clients who built it in a forest in upstate New York with the help of their friends. Read more View the full article

Norwegian designer Stian Korntved Ruud has committed to carving one spoon per day for a year to explore the forms that are possible using different types of wood (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch designer Nienke Hoogvliet used seaweed to create a furniture collection that highlights its possibilities as a material. (more…) View the full article

This week Thomas Heatherwick was accused of copying the design for the Olympic Cauldron just days after being awarded a CBE for services to the design industry. Read on for more architecture and design news from the last seven days plus Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

A cut-out mountainscape, wobbly jellyfish vases and tables that melt into bowls are among the items exhibited by Japanese brand Nendo at its Milan design week exhibition. Read more View the full article

News: Berlin design studio Blond and Bieber's project that uses algae to create colourful dyes for textile printing has won a competition for young designers organised by Lodz Design Festival (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Warsaw studio MFRMGR has subdivided this office space in Poland to create individual workspaces for employees within wooden cabins designed to look like a "mini-town" (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A pair of huge concrete lights drop down over the bar of this restaurant in Mexico City, which was designed by local firm Michan Architecture. Read more

An Academy of Fine Arts Poznań graduate has designed a cremation urn that can be purchased before your death and used as homeware, serving as a reminder to live life to the full. Read more View the full article

Lisbon studio Aires Mateus used only reclaimed timber to construct this pair of waterfront cabins in Grândola, Portugal (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Lausanne-based design studio Panter & Tourron have explored the link between ancient religious symbols and cutting-edge technology to create five spiritual objects. Read more View the full article

In our latest competition, we've teamed up with Kip Hideaways to give readers the chance to win a two-night stay for four people at the Kingsbridge Hideaway in Devon, as well as a year's membership to Kip. Read more View the full article

Alexander Fehre used aluminium-mesh partitions and metal light fittings to suggest an industrial aesthetic in this showroom and office for a conveyor-belt company in Germany (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Louis Vuitton has created an exhibition in Los Angeles that showcases its collaborations with leading artists over the past 160 years, complete with custom bags and a tropical pop-up shop. Read more

Creative networking organiser Glug has launched its #ProtestByDesign campaign that aims to create the world's biggest database of protest posters in support of the global climate strike today. Read more

Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win a pair of portable wireless speakers by Stockholm studio Nocs (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New York architecture firms and designers including Snøhetta, Selldorf Architects and Joe Doucet are participating in the city's climate strike today, joining a wave of industry figures partaking in cities around the world. Read more

Czech designer Maxim Velčovský presents a series of porcelain vases cast from snow at the London Design Festival, which starts today. (more...) View the full article

News: Claudio Luti has resigned as president of Milan's Salone Internazionale del Mobile after less than two years in the role, following a shakeup of the furniture fair's ownership structure. (more...) View the full article

Our job of the week is a position for a graphic designer at London firm Wilkinson Eyre Architects, winner of the World Building of the Year Award last month with their Gardens By the Bay tropical gardens in Singapore (shown above). Visit the ad for full details or browse many other architecture and design job opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Crumpled sheets of metal appear to float inside or wrap around the low tables in a collection by design studio Fredrikson Stallard currently on show at the new David Gill Gallery in London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen, one of Sydney's only brutalist buildings was saved from demolition while a proposal for a giant ring-shaped walkway in Wales was put on hold after opposition from locals. Read more View the full article