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Dezeen Watch Store: Hong Kong watch brand VOID have released a new stainless steel bracelet version of the VOID V01 and VOID V02 timepiece designed by David Ericsson, now available at Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) View the full article

Movie: in this montage of highlights that Dezeen made for Clerkenwell Design Week, designers including Ross Lovegrove, BarberOsgerby and the Jaguar design team introduce their projects at the event. (more…) View the full article

Balconies of these two apartment blocks in northwest France by architect Philippe Gazeau protrude like a set of open drawers. (more…) View the full article

Don’t worry if you smash this vase by Dutch designer Mianne de Vries – a back-up vase is waiting inside. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the A’ Design Award has announced its World Design Rankings list of the countries with the highest concentration of talent in arts, architecture and design, with the USA coming first and the UK placed fifth. (more…) View the full article

News: architecture firm Foster + Partners has unveiled proposals to increase the capacity of New York’s Grand Central Terminal by widening approach routes and pedestrianising streets (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

In the next of our movies filmed at Dezeen Live during 100% Design, British industrial designer Benjamin Hubert argues that designers should focus on building their own name as a brand. (more...) View the full article

Cologne 2013: Berlin-based product designer Daniel Becker has created a set of ceramic tiles that let stoves give off more heat. (more...) View the full article

Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled designs for a complex of towers in Bratislava's city centre (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: these hexagonal storage boxes by Icelandic designer Thorunn Arnadottir use varying shades of grey to distort perspective. (more...) View the full article

An Italian winery with terracotta vaults (above), 3D-printed guns and a skyscraper for bees all feature in Dezeen Mail issue 151, plus all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 151 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

News: the Royal Institute of British Architects in London has announced 52 winners of this year's RIBA Awards, including a faceted auditorium in Alicante, a shimmering seaside gallery and a museum that mimics volcanic formations. (more...) View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Jule Waibel has designed a series of folded paper clothes and accessories including a dress that adjusts and expands as you move and a concertinaed handbag (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

This week we reported on proposals to turn London's abandoned tube tunnels into an underground cycle network, and the launch of Ikea's "low key" collaboration with British designer Ilse Crawford (pictured). Read on to catch up with the latest architecture and design news, plus our track of the week. (more…) View the full article

German studio J. Mayer H. Architekten has unveiled images of a temporary gallery made from scaffolding at a modern art museum in Munich (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: Milan design studio NVDRS has designed a coffee table with a removable wooden top that doubles as a tray. (more...) View the full article

News: Dezeen founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs has been named Business Web Editor of the Year by the British Society of Magazine Editors. (more...) View the full article

What appears to be a cupboard is actually a staircase leading up to a tiny loft bedroom in this 18th-century barn in Norfolk, England, that Lynch Architects has converted into a holiday home (+ 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

Following the Australian home we published earlier this week based on Japanese architecture, this house in Hyogo, Japan, was designed by Tato Architects with the same hipped roof, stilted structure and wide balcony that are common to residences in Queensland, Australia (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This skateboarding ramp floating over the clear waters of Lake Tahoe was put together in just four days by design-and-build team Jerry Blohm and Jeff King for Californian skater Bob Burnquist (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: this plastic table by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka for Italian brand Kartell resembles cut glass. (more...) View the full article

News: technology company Oculus VR has said it will defend itself "vigorously" against claims that it used the intellectual property and expertise of ZeniMax Media to develop the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. (more...) View the full article

These sets of kitchen utensils by Kingston University graduate Oliver Richardson stack into totem-pole arrangements in the order they are likely to be required (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

These brass plates, small vases and containers by Sheffield designer Daniel Schofield are mirror-polished on one half and untreated on the other. (more...) View the full article