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JKMM Architects has designed an extension to Finland's national museum in Helsinki topped with a white, disc-shaped concrete roof. Read more View the full article

Milan 2013: Robert Bronwasser of Amsterdam design studio Smool presented a television set wrapped in fabric at Ventura Lambrate in Milan earlier this month. (more...) View the full article

The timber-framed rooms of this house in Osaka prefacture by Japanese architects Suga Atelier are on show to the street though a transparent facade. (more…) View the full article

Skyscrapers flanking a Dubai beach, a foliage-covered hotel in a Sri Lankan jungle and an island building recently destroyed by a volcano all feature on a shortlist for architectural photograph of the year (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Opinion: in his latest Opinion column, Sam Jacob argues that objects tell us more about ourselves than literature or imagery and sets out his manifesto for "a culture of design informed by archeology and anthropology". (more...) View the full article

The three-layered facade of this riverside house in Tsukubamirai, Japan, was intended by local studio Kichi Architectural Design to reference rippling water (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2016: Patricia Urquiola has added stained-glass panels to the front of these cabinets, becoming the latest in a series of designers to use the material for contemporary furniture. (more…) View the full article

The Tower of London's famous resident ravens have a new home in a set of oak and mesh-encased aviaries designed by local firm Llowarch Llowarch Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Spanish architects Anna and Eugeni Bach have renovated an ageing Barcelona apartment to show off its mosaic floors and decorative ceiling mouldings. (more...) View the full article

The first and only built project by the late experimental architect Lebbeus Woods is the Light Pavilion, one of of three large-scale installations at Steven Holl's recently completed Sliced Porosity Block in Chengdu, China (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Feature: thirty-three years after designs by the Memphis Group caused a "mass-media event" at the Salone del Mobile, the bold graphic style they created is back in favour in Milan and is appearing in some unusual places, finds Dan Howarth. (more...) View the full article

A large wind chime and a bouncy castle linked to a smartphone app are among the temporary Winter Stations structures that have been built on Toronto's lakefront, to encourage visitors to play outside in the freezing winter. Read more View the full article

News: the US military is developing its own 3D printers for the frontline which will enable soldiers to quickly and cheaply produce spare parts for their weapons and equipment. (more…) View the full article

London designer Aimée Furnival has created a series of model kits featuring famous London landmarks and they’re now available at our pop-up design shop Dezeen Super Store! (more…) View the full article

Milan 2014: designer Tom Dixon presented a collection of pendant and table lights that combine geometric brass-plated planes with spherical glass shades in Milan last week. (more...) View the full article

This holiday house with rammed earth walls by US architects DUST is nestled amongst the rocky outcrops and sprouting cacti of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

As 2013 gets underway, here's a look at the ten tallest skyscrapers set to complete around the globe this year (+ interactive image). (more...) View the full article

The mineralogy collection at the Melbourne Museum inspired Australian designer Leah Heiss' Facett hearing aid, which aims to shift talk "from disability to desirability". Read more View the full article

Kingston University graduate Poppy Booth has created a pair of tongue-in-cheek objects that comment on the "ridiculousness" of consumer habits. Read more View the full article

A zigzagging roof extends across this extension added to the original gable end of a community centre in the Swiss municipality of Oberglatt by Zurich studio Frei + Saarinen (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen has teamed up with Tokyobike and Ally Capellino to give one reader a limited-edition bike and a rucksack. Read more View the full article

New York 2016: Brooklyn company Calico Wallpaper has used the salts in Mast Brothers' new chocolate range to create marbled packaging for the bars (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Vienna Design Week: London-based designer Julia Lohmann thinks dried strips of seaweed could replace leather, paper and plastic to make everyday objects like these laser-cut kelp lampshades (+ audio + slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Zaha Hadid's Library and Learning Centre at the Vienna University of Economics and Business opens today and this animation by London visualisation firm Neutral gives a tour of the building. (more...) View the full article

A concrete house designed to balance over the edge of a hillside in Kazakhstan is the latest addition to our series of stories featuring photo-realistic renderings (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article