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London Design Festival 2014: natural materials suspended in resin to create furniture by Italian design duo Alcarol will be displayed at the Mint Gallery during the London Design Festival next week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

British design legend Peter Saville has adapted his graphic identity for the Tate Modern into a new Switch House beer can. (more…) View the full article

News: Rodman Primack, former chairman of London auction house Phillips de Pury, has been named director of collectors' fair Design Miami following the resignation of Marianne Goebl. (more...) View the full article

Steel beams crisscross through the centre of Repoussoir, a house extension that Con Form Architects has completed in London. Read more

The Mount Sinai Kyabirwa Surgical Facility in Uganda by Kliment Halsband Architects is a self-sustaining facility topped with solar panels. Read more View the full article

This metal-clad house in Chiba, Japan, was designed by architect Yuji Kimura to fill its site, meaning a car-parking space and balcony had to be slotted within its boxy volume (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

For his first solo exhibition in the USA, Berlin-based architect Diébédo Francis Kéré has created a rainbow-coloured installation made of thousands of strands of lightweight cord (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A London exhibition of architectural drawings from Japanese anime films and a menstrual cup designed to appeal to tweens feature in the latest edition of Dezeen Mail, our weekly newsletter. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail › View the full article

French architect Paul Coudamy has converted this former butcher's shop in suburban Paris into a private residence and included mysterious figures in the photographs (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Now the Stockholm Furniture Fair has ended, we're reflecting on some of the most promising talent spotted during the event. Read more View the full article

This outdoor urinal by French design studio Faltazi slots into a straw bale to recycle pee from festivalgoers into compost. (more...) View the full article

Design firm Yabu Pushelberg has transformed a 20th-century house in California's Napa Valley into this luxury hotel, which features bedrooms lined with dark wood, spacious bathrooms and a rustic restaurant. Read more

Tall translucent doors open two sides of this theatrical rehearsal space created by Brazilian architect Alan Chu for an actor in São Paulo (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our new Pinterest board is dedicated to sustainable design, including an eco-friendly coffin that uses fungus to biodegrade the body and MIT's self-growing sandbars, islands and beaches. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›

It's Chinese New Year! To celebrate the beginning of the year of the monkey, we're revisiting some of the best new Chinese architecture on Dezeen, including the world's second tallest building, a sinuous opera house by MAD, and Kengo Kuma's folk-art galleries for the China Academy of Arts. See more new Chinese architecture » View the full article

Two hundred and seventy six teacups are suspended from the ceiling of this coffee shop in Bucharest by Romanian studio Lama Architectura (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Faye Toogood (above), UNStudio and COS, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Foster + Partners, David Collins Studio and more… (more…) View the full article

Hackney designer Philippe Malouin worked with traditional craftsmen from Beirut to create a series of bowls and plinths by shaping wooden blocks made of many smaller, tessellating batons. (more…) View the full article

Product news: these tables based on a circus ringmaster's podium were designed by German office Formfjord for Swedish brand Offecct. (more...) View the full article

News: a contemporary house inserted into the twelfth-century ruins of Astley Castle in Warwickshire by Witherford Watson Mann has won the RIBA Stirling Prize 2013 for the greatest contribution to British architecture in the last year. (more...) View the full article

Spanish product designer Victor Castanera has created a set of cylindrical resin containers with patterns reminiscent of ocean waves and sandy beaches. (more…) View the full article

Business news: South African designer Christopher Jenner has left his position as creative director of cross-channel rail company Eurostar less than two years after taking over the role from Philippe Starck. (more…) View the full article

A reading room with a daybed and porthole window is built into the living room of Pointing House, a one-bedroom apartment in Rome designed by Studio Strato. Read more View the full article

From Amanda Levete's MAAT museum to the city's first Architecture Triennale, new projects keep springing up in Lisbon. We've pinned the Portuguese capital's best architecture to a new Pinterest board. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › View the full article

A glazed box containing a study cantilevers from the contemporary rural Jackson Residence by architecture firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, which overlooks a river valley in the American West. Read more View the full article