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Balbek Bureau has designed the interiors of a restaurant in Kiev that incorporates traditional Ukrainian forms, materials and colours in a contemporary way. Read more

News: Jean Nouvel's One Central Park residential tower in Sydney will feature the world's tallest vertical garden by inventor of living walls, Patrick Blanc. (more...) View the full article

Burning Man revellers, including architect Bjarke Ingels, have captured the installations, pavilions and stages at this year's event, including elevated stepping stones and a huge arm made of scrap metel. Read more

London firm Squire and Partners has revived traditional building techniques and combined them with contemporary details to create a workshop for a school in south-east England (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Opinion: Nest's intelligently connected thermostat is a surface solution for a much deeper problem in cities like London – we need innovation in services not surfaces, says Dan Hill. (more...) View the full article

Danish design brand Muuto's latest collection features skinny tables, magnetic ceramic vases and candlesticks with small tabs for easy carrying (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Tomas Libertiny's design studio used multiple body casts to dictate the shape of this seat for Dutch brand Tchai International, shown in Milan last month. (more...) View the full article

Angled stone surfaces create zigzags across the facade of this hospital building in Copenhagen by Danish firm 3XN (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The outrage over New York's Hudson Yards is not really about ugly glass towers or bad urbanism – although it features both – but an unspoken disquiet that foreign ideas have overtaken a chunk of Manhattan, argues Aaron Betsky. Read more

Oki Sato of Japanese studio Nendo has seen off competition from Thomas Heatherwick to claim a higher spot than any other designer on the first-ever Dezeen Hot List. Read more View the full article

Snøhetta has created a collection of hinged wooden lamps, which were originally designed for a treetop cabin at the Treehotel in Sweden. Read more View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for senior designers at Philippe Starck, who unveiled four electric bicycles at the Eurobike event in Germany, including a bike with a furry coat (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store has introduced three new sections to its website to aid festive shopping, with each category aiming to appeal to a different style of customer. Read more View the full article

A sliding screen can reveal or conceal a glass office that cantilevers from the concave face of this concept house by American studio Fixd Architecture/Design (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Competition: we've teamed up with international interior design studio YOO to give away five copies of their new book to Dezeen readers. (more...) View the full article

French office Périphériques has redeveloped a site in west Paris by adding apartment blocks with contrasting facades and angular balconies, as well as a nursery with stripy pink and green walls (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This staircase concept by Canadian architect Andrew McConnell is based on a whale's backbone (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Creative studio Büro für MEHR has designed a concept for a drive-through airport that processes planes like a car wash. (more…) View the full article

A row of aluminium ribs curves away from the serrated glass facade of this research laboratory in England to help shelter occupants from the sun (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Threads and glue replace joints and screws in the furniture that emerges from a custom-made machine designed by Royal College of Art graduate Anton Alvarez (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Hong Kong-based Greyhours has created six new iterations of its bestselling Essential timepiece, which are now available to pre-order from Dezeen Watch Store. Read more View the full article

Knox Bhavan Architects has joined two flats in a converted school in south London, creating an apartment with spacious entertaining spaces and bedrooms that can be opened or closed (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A rooftop swimming pool with a glass floor cantilevers out beside the entrance to this house in Marbella, Spain, by Dutch office Wiel Arets Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Spanish architect Raúl Sánchez has overhauled a long and narrow apartment in Barcelona to create a sequence of rooms lined in patterned tiles, micro-cement, marble and wood (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This small house in rural Japan by Tokyo firm Case Design Studio is lifted off the ground on a single central pillar (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article