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Ben Davidson of London studio Rodić Davidson Architects designed this garden shed in Cambridge, England, to the exact proportions of his grandfather's old workbench and added pegboard walls for displaying a collection of handmade tools (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Enormous dressmaker's pins seem to puncture the seat of this sofa by Hungarian design student Demeter Fogarasi, pushing through to form legs on the underside. (more...) View the full article

This week we featured projects at Selfridges' Festival of Imagination, where Dezeen has created an augmented-reality shop and Dominic Wilcox has installed absurd inventions like a tea cup with a cooling fan (pictured) in one of the department store's windows. More architecture and design news follows, plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in the second part of our interview with Maarten Baas, the Dutch designer reflects on how his career has progressed since the burnt furniture he developed for his 2002 graduation project immediately brought him to the attention of the design world. (more...) View the full article

This series of images by architectural rendering studio Hayes Davidson envisages how London's skyline might look in 20 years time. (more...) View the full article

Swedish design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune will present a modular table system with plug sockets within the structure during Stockholm Design Week next month (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a 3D artist with David Chipperfield Architects, whose gallery designed to showcase the largest private art collection in Latin America is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has wrapped a pattern of woven rattan around one side of this radio for design brand Lexon, which is on show at the Maison&Objet trade fair that begins today in Paris. (more...) View the full article

A bright red shipping container at the entrance to the offices of Cape Town branding agency 99c houses a waiting room for visitors. (more...) View the full article

Latticed wooden screens form balustrades for a red pigmented concrete staircase inside this renovated mews house in west London by British studio Jonathan Tuckey Design. (more...) View the full article

Wooden structures and traditional joinery are used in this Melbourne takeaway chicken shop by local interior designers Hecker Guthrie to evoke the appearance of a chicken coop. (more...) View the full article

Shiny aluminium-clad walls allow this small house in Almere by Dutch studio MONO to reflect the colours of its setting (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London studio Scott Architects has added a curvy timber extension to a terraced house in Hackney, featuring a bowed wall that cuts through the centre of a green roof. (more...) View the full article

Interdisciplinary art collective BeAnotherLab has developed a virtual reality headset that allows users to experience what it would be like to live in the skin of someone from the opposite sex. (more...) View the full article

British designers Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby have curated an exhibition at London's Design Museum containing a selection of objects paused part-way through the manufacturing process, which they joked reveals their obsession with aluminium. (more...) View the full article

An events space designed by Rem Koolhaas' OMA has opened in the basement of London department store Selfridges, featuring a circular amphitheatre, vivid green columns and a stripy monochrome floor (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut chapel at Ronchamp has been vandalised, prompting calls for urgent security measures to prevent further damage to one of the Modernist architect's finest works. (more...) View the full article

News: Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron have revealed designs for the first eight buildings of their 35-hectare masterplan for La Confluence, an extension of the city centre in Lyon, France (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Cologne 2014: German designer Christian Werner has created a sofa for French brand Ligne Roset with backrests that can be placed in any position (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The two parts of this house near Oslo by Schjelderup Trondahl Architects are joined at an angle, with their gabled roofs meeting to form a distorted M-shape (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: four Daniel Wellington watches with striped fabric Nato straps are now available from Dezeen Watch Store. (more...) View the full article

Lisbon office Gonçalo Byrne Arquitectos has designed a Jewish cultural centre in the historic heart of Trancoso, Portugal, with a sharp corner that bisects two narrow cobbled streets (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The Ace Hotel chain has opened its newest outpost inside a 1920s tower in downtown Los Angeles, complete with a 1600-seat theatre. (more...) View the full article

News: Russian socialite and gallerist Dasha Zukhova has sparked a racism row after a photograph of her sitting on a chair in the form of an inverted semi-naked black woman appeared alongside an interview on a Russian website. (more...) View the full article

Architects including Álvaro Siza, Eduardo Souto de Moura and Kengo Kuma have taken over the galleries of London's Royal Academy of Arts for an architecture exhibition that features a labyrinth of sticks, an inhabitable timber monument and a web of scented bamboo (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article