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Japanese studio Nendo has designed a collection of furniture and homeware for Danish brand BoConcept, which includes a seat that appears to hug itself and accessories with patterns based on origami. (more...) View the full article

Central Saint Martins graduate Robert Cooper has created chocolate and wafer snacks that can be built into Airfix-style models, which are on display at the New Designers Part 2 exhibition that opened yesterday (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

After 15 years of incremental work, architect Niall McLaughlin has restored and extended a London house with a subterranean gallery (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen revealed 3D-printed garments and accessories "grown" with magnets during her ready-to-wear show in Paris yesterday. (more...) View the full article

Australian studio Philip Stejskal Architecture has equipped a white timber extension to a 1890s duplex with shutters and sliding panels that camouflage with the walls when closed. (more...) View the full article

A cafe in a cross-shaped tent, a mirrored hideaway and a pop-up art gallery are among the shelters that architects have dotted along a frozen river in Winnipeg, Canada (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A staircase formed of wooden boxes and platforms, and supported by a black metal framework, rises up through this Sicilian residence that was recently renovated by Milanese architect Francesco Librizzi. (more…) View the full article

Architecture firm Snøhetta has designed a pair of ring-shaped platforms linked by a cable car, which will offer expansive views of the Alps to residents and visitors in Bolzano, Italy. (more…) View the full article

A new installation by Boston-based architecture studio Matter Design features a wooden box with sculptural interior walls that radiate different temperatures, creating an "intimate and contradictory set of experiences". (more…) View the full article

Fashion designer Hussein Chalayan has created elasticated costumes and sequinned garments for performers in his first self-directed dance production (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Pininfarina and AECOM have beaten proposals from Zaha Hadid and Moshe Safdie in a contest seeking a design for an air-traffic control tower at Istanbul's new airport. (more…) View the full article

Architecture firm Spark wants to use plastic to build a series of elevated beach huts resembling giant pine cones in Singapore. (more…) View the full article

Seattle firm Olson Kundig Architects has won first place in a competition to create an architectural fairytale, with its story about a dead architect who is resurrected and dropped into a futuristic urban landscape. (more…) View the full article

Swiss firm Christ & Gantenbein has added a new gallery building to the Kunstmuseum Basel, featuring a graduated grey-brick facade and a monumental marble staircase (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

New York 2016: with the Big Apple now an important centre for lighting design, Dezeen's US editor Dan Howarth selects eight of the best new products at the city's ICFF fair this week. (more…) View the full article

London and St Louis-based design studio Kiku Obata & Company is overseeing the redevelopment of an ageing downtown district in the US heartland, in a rural town where big-box stores have taken over (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Arizona studio DUST has created a desert home south of Tucson using volcanic residue to form rammed-earth walls (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The demand for stylish home accessories with built-in induction charging is set to boom according to London studio Blond, which has created a portable cylindrical speaker that comes with a wireless charging tray (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Maison&Objet 2016: London studio Poetic Lab has designed a clock with sculptural hands that form different shapes as they turn (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Comments update: the UK's housing crisis became the hot topic this week, as readers reacted to Phineas Harper's first Opinion column for Dezeen. (more…) View the full article

More than 30 alternative visions for sex toys feature in the For Play exhibition, which questions expectations of what design for sexuality looks like. Read more View the full article

Francesca Gotti has hidden fragrances within seemingly impenetrable concrete-like blocks for Italian perfumer oneofthose. Read more View the full article

A group of researchers at MIT has created a new material that expands and contracts when exposed to different temperatures. Read more View the full article

Light projected into a mirrored room creates seemingly infinite patterns in this installation by Turkish artist Refik Anadol, at this year's SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. Read more View the full article

This connected plant pot designed by Royal College of Art graduate Jen-Hsien Chiu feeds or starves a plant depending on its user's behaviour. Read more View the full article