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This conceptual design for a family home by postgraduate architecture student Gonzalo Vaíllo Martínez features a fluid structural frame, a skeletal staircase and a skin incorporating blinds that open and close like gills (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: Japanese architect Jo Nagasaka has created a collection of spongy seats by tying up blocks of foam and dipping them in rubber. (more...) View the full article

News: the Scottish Government is working with the Glasgow School of Art to provide support for students who were handing in their final projects at the Mackintosh-designed building when it caught fire last Friday. (more...) View the full article

A folded fabric canopy helps to shade the interior of this glazed extension to a nursery in Paris by local firm h2o Architectes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

For his first solo exhibition, Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has filled an entire wing of Denmark's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art with a landscape of stones meant to emulate a riverbed (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Inside Festival 2014: a Hong Kong restaurant that combines colonial-style furnishings with an industrial warehouse aesthetic has been named World Interior of the Year at the Inside Festival in Singapore (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Danish brand Howe is relaunching a chair designed by Modernist architect Arne Jacobsen for his 1950s Munkegaard School. (more...) View the full article

North London-based Studio Vit has created a collection of lights that combine spherical bulbs with conical shades and stands that resemble archetypal party hats. (more…) View the full article

Opinion: more and more design weeks take place around the world each year, but as brands flock in to woo designers, these are in danger of losing sight of their purpose, warns Lucas Verweij. (more…) View the full article

Musician Pharrell Williams is a "huge fan" of architect Zaha Hadid, who he has collaborated with to design a pair of trainers as part of his collection for Adidas (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Student-style accommodation with communal facilities could help solve London's housing crisis and regenerate urban centres around the country, according to interior designer and TV presenter Naomi Cleaver. (more…) View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2015: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Dan Adlešič has created a collection of purposefully ridiculous electronic products that only work in response to unconventional movements. (more…) View the full article

The facades of this university building in the Spanish city of Getafe feature angled bays formed from a zigzagging arrangement of terracotta-hued ceramic panels (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Design Indaba 2016: the car industry is so obsessed with new technology that it is forgetting about people, according to Dutch designers Miriam van der Lubbe and Niels van Eijk. (more…) View the full article

Traditional Japanese floor mats define the proportions of this house in Niigata, designed by Tokmoto Architectures Room as a strict grid of squares (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

US firm Gould Evans has revamped a 1970s concrete library in Kansas, wrapping the building in a terracotta rainscreen and adding modern amenities such as a recording studio (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Ahead of this year's US presidential election, creative agency Design Army is encouraging Americans to chose chocolate bars based on six illustrated packaging designs that represent different political opinions (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Iran is "on the verge of a new era for architecture" according to local architects, as change sweeps through the Islamic republic following the lifting of crippling economic sanctions (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Over the past 20 years, former caterer Nick Jones has built Soho House into a global empire of private members clubs, restaurants, spas and now Soho Home, an online homewares store. He sat down with Dezeen to discuss his approach to design (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A descendant of legendary Mexican architect Luis Barragán is outraged after discovering that his great-uncle's cremated remains have been used to create a diamond ring. (more…) View the full article

We're revisiting the best examples of Brutalist architecture with a new Pinterest board this week, including Sydney's threatened Sirius apartment building and London's soon-to-be-demolished Robin Hood Gardens. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more Brutalist architecture on Dezeen View the full article

This 120-year-old Kyoto townhouse was once used as a seed plantation, but has been carefully restored to create a guesthouse that celebrates Japanese interior design traditions (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

After abandoning plans in Chicago, Beijing studio MAD has now revealed two new designs for its George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art – one for San Francisco, and a different one for Los Angeles. Read more View the full article

The next piece to be unveiled as part of the vast Hudson Yards development in New York is a glass office tower by architecture firm Foster + Partners. Read more View the full article

US president Donald Trump is speeding ahead with his plans to build the controversial wall along the country's border with Mexico, with a deadline for prototype proposals set for early next month. Read more View the full article