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Dezeen promotion: Design Indaba has announced its line-up for the international conference, exhibition of African design, film festival and music programmes taking place in Cape Town from 26 February. (more...) View the full article

Dutch firm Levs Architecten used unfired clay bricks from local mines to build the barrel-vaulted structure of this primary school on one of Mali's vast plains (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

An all-encompassing timber lattice creates a sheltered gallery around the perimeter of this university library in the South American country of French Guiana by Paris studio RH+ Architecture (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This radical redesign of a door by Austrian artist Klemens Torggler uses a folding and pivoting system to collapse and roll to one side. (more...) View the full article

News: a swimming pool, a theatre and a restaurant are among designs by French studios Oxo Architectes and Laisné Associés to renovate abandoned Metro stations in Paris (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Faceted concrete staircases connect a string of social spaces inside this SOM-designed campus building for The New School in New York, visible outside the building through huge diagonal windows (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: materials brand DuPont has created a range of darker and more intense tones for its solid-surface product Corian. (more...) View the full article

French auto brand Renault has designed a concept car that launches its own drone from a hatch in the roof (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A stuffed lamb with a table on its back and a drawer in its side is the latest addition to a collection of furniture based on the paintings of Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. (more...) View the full article

Czech studio A1 Architects covered the walls of this cafe in Prague with a tactile mixture of black plaster, coal and pieces of straw, in a modern take on the clay plasters used inside traditional Japanese tea houses (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2014: Danish design brand Menu has started producing this two-legged side table that rests against the wall by Taiwan designer Kenyon Yeh (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

French visual artist Benoit Challand has combined the visual language of Le Corbusier's houses and Santiago Calatrava's sculptures to form a vision for a futuristic self-sustaining house on stilts (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This black wooden house in Austria by Hammerschmid Pachl Seebacher Architekten is raised off the ground on wonky metal stilts to frame views of the landscape and allow room underneath for a sheltered garden (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2014: architecture studio TAF has designed a light that resembles a poster tube for Swedish brand Zero. (more...) View the full article

Opinion: in this week's column, Sam Jacob investigates how flip flops from a street market have taken their place alongside placards and banners as objects of protest in the recent Bangkok election demonstrations. (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers Summit to give readers the chance to win a book full of projects by design duo GamFratesi. (more...) View the full article

A lone computer-generated figure marches forward whilst morphing through an array of architectural structures that include geodesic domes pixellated blocks and complex lattices, in this animation by multimedia studio Universal Everything (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Swiss designer Fabienne Felder has worked with University of Cambridge scientists Paolo Bombelli and Ross Dennis to develop a way of using plants as "biological solar panels". (more...) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Benjamin Hubert, Herzog & de Meuron and Zaha Hadid Architects, whose Heydar Aliyev Centre in Baku, Azerbaijan, is pictured. Plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Tom Dixon, Olafur Eliasson, Wilkinson Eyre Architects and more... (more...) View the full article

Dutch designer Marcel Wanders has created an ultra-lightweight carbon fibre chair formed around party balloons. (more...) View the full article

Chilean studio MAPA referenced local vernacular building techniques by placing two sheds within a larger one for this family house in the forests of the Andes mountains in Chile (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Huge round cushions in shades of mustard yellow and cornflower blue add colour to the pale concrete and timber interior of this kindergarten in western Austria by local studio Bernardo Bader Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: the Design Museum in London has announced 76 nominations for Designs of the Year 2014, including a floating school in a Nigerian lagoon (pictured), a table that weighs just nine kilograms and a mobile phone made of detachable blocks. (more...) View the full article

London studio Hayhurst and Co. used pale white larch to wrap walls and furnishings both inside and outside this beach house-inspired extension to a family residence in Hampstead, north London. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Music Project: Katia Mezentseva used time-lapse photography to capture the process of flowers and pine cones drying out to make this music video for Russian artist Cetranger. (more...) View the full article