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Fundamental Architects and Omega Render have envisioned a building spanning a river in Astana, capital of Kazakhstan, with a hole in the middle to make it look like the national flag. Read more

Istanbul Design Biennial 2014: nighttime has become "an endangered species" says architecture graduate Clio Capeille, who has designed architectural structures especially for use after dark (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: there will be no curved or glass walls on any new school buildings constructed in the UK, thanks to a set of government guidelines released this week. (more…) View the full article

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has paid homage to the northern lights by constructing a titanium-clad cathedral that spirals up towards the sky (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

These new shots by British photographers Hufton + Crow document the seven extraordinary bus shelters created in a tiny Austrian village by architects including Sou Fujimoto, Smiljan Radić and Wang Shu (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The big news this week is Apple bringing its hardware and software design teams together under the direction of Jonathan Ive (above), a move our readers think is “long overdue” and they hope will mean the end of “that nasty skeuomorphism fetish” where software interfaces are styled to resemble leather and wood. (more…) View the full article

This bakery in Porto by Portuguese architect Paulo Merlini has a wavy ceiling that's designed to look like a dripping cake topping (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Opinion: the AstroTurf lawn installed on the roof of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art symbolises the next step in our acceptance and desire for artificial nature, says Alexandra Lange. (more...) View the full article

Our new Pinterest board features highlights from this year's London Design Festival, including an installation of spinning paper windmills and the "world's lightest" wooden table. See our new London Design Festival 2013 Pinterest board » See more London Design Festival 2013 coverage » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » View the full article

A suit to bathe in, a vacuum-suctioning dressing gown and a temperature-regulating duvet feature in this collection designed by Central Saint Martins graduate Christine Lew for life on Mars. Read more View the full article

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

No-To-Scale has imagined installing a superyacht connected to the 1MDB embezzling scandal as a provocative alternative Malaysian pavilion for the Dubai Expo 2020. Read more

The American Institute of Architects has announced its top 10 American housing projects of 2016, including a group of treehouse-like cabins in Minnesota woodland and an inner-city development for formerly homeless people in San Francisco (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A dining table by Denmark's late Peder Moos has broken the world auction record for a piece of Nordic design, selling for over £600,000. (more…) View the full article

London studio Jonathan Tuckey Design has added a contemporary glazed extension to a Grade II-listed Cotswolds house to provide additional space without detracting from the original building (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Curving pale wooden furnishings and soft pink, green and blue tones decorate this tea shop in New York City designed by local firm New Practice Studio. Read more

Tech giant Apple has filed a patent for a "wearable ring device" with touchscreen and voice-control capabilities, paving the way for a potential launch of the Apple Ring. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2016: Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has used spotlights, mirrors and specially composed sounds to create his "shifting forest of light" that responds to visitors' movements for fashion brand COS (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

A white desk folds up the wall and across the ceiling like a crumpled aeroplane wing in this apartment in Seoul by South Korean design firm AnLstudio (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Faceted recesses in the stone-clad facade of this office building in the Iranian capital, Tehran, contain wooden louvres that provide shade to the large windows behind (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This pop-up Starbucks coffee shop in Tokyo by Japanese design studio Nendo was designed like a library, where customers ordered drinks by taking books to the counter (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A New York-based co-working company has plans for the UK's underused but iconic red public phone booths: it is transforming them into micro offices for workers on the go. (more…) View the full article

Brazilian studio Atelier Branco has completed a glass house among a rainforest in São Paulo with a rooftop terrace for the resident "to read and smoke a cigar looking at the stars". Read more

This chicken coop by Swedish architect and designer Torsten Ottesjö is designed to look like the protective wing of a mother hen. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the Southern California Institute of Architecture has launched a scholarship for a European architecture student to study a masters at the university in Los Angeles. (more…) View the full article