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Paul Cocksedge has unveiled the latest design in his mission to save vintage speakers from obsolescence, with a small Bluetooth device that can now provide stereo sound (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Explore this year's Serpentine Pavilion, a secluded courtyard designed by Mexican architect Frida Escobedo, in this exclusive 360-degree video filmed by Dezeen. Read more View the full article

Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo has transformed a gasworks in the city of Hilversum into a residential neighbourhood featuring cylindrical apartment buildings intended to resemble the dismantled gasholders. Read more View the full article

The front of this house in Kraków, Poland, is curved dramatically up towards the sky so that Polish architect Tadeusz Lemański could squeeze a garage underneath (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A team in Tokyo has created a head-mounted camera that monitors brain waves and automatically starts recording when the wearer becomes interested in something. (more...) View the full article

Movable, perforated screens allow this north London apartment to be adapted to suit various situations. Read more View the full article

News: the builders behind this two-tower 47-storey skyscraper in Benidorm, Spain, have forgotten to include a working lift. (more...) View the full article

Artist and activist Ai Weiwei took to Instagram to show Chinese authorities knocking down his studio in Beijing, with many of his artworks still inside. Read more View the full article

Charlotte and Clementine Fiell's book, Women in Design, highlights what made figures like Apple icon designer Susan Kare and architect Zaha Hadid revolutionary. The authors pick five women from the book who transformed design. Read more View the full article

Milan 2016: Australian designer Ross Gardam has created a desk lamp with a mirrored shade that can be rotated to adjust light and shadow (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Architect Delfino Lozano used simple materials to reduce the cost of rebuilding of this house in Zapopan, Mexico, which also features a storage area slotted under its staircase (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our Pinterest board showcases the best-designed bakeries and patisseries, including one with "monolithic" cast in-situ concrete walls and a bike-powered bakery that relies on human exertion in New England. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›

This week, Dezeen spoke to Björk in an exclusive interview, and reported on the fire that devastated Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art. Read more View the full article

Competition: in the first in a series of features on new publishing ventures, Dezeen are offering readers a chance to win a one of five one-year subscriptions to Disegno magazine. (more…) View the full article

A long white staircase leads straight to the top floor of this small house in Tokyo by Japanese office Apollo Architects & Associates. (more...) View the full article

New York architecture firm ODA has released visuals of a centre for a Jewish community in Brooklyn featuring schools, sports facilities and offices stacked on top of each other. Read more

Royal College of Art graduate Po-Chih Lai has invented an add-on for a stove-top coffee pot that uses pressurised steam to froth up the milk (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

News: Mexican architect Fernando Romero has unveiled his design for a South American art museum in Miami – the so-called "capital of Latin America" – during this week's Art Basel and Design Miami events (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Actor Brad Pitt has lauded praise on Peter Zumthor as the Swiss architect's plans for Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles are approved. Read more

A South African chapel framing dramatic mountain views features in this week's issue of Dezeen Mail, along with Nike's Pro Hijab for female Muslim athletes and snap-together furniture from IKEA. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail › View the full article

News: a water-filtration system that uses plants to extract arsenic from water supplies and allows the user to sell the poisonous substance at a profit has been voted the "Idea that will change the world" at the Global Design Forum in London today (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

News: entrepreneur Elon Musk has revealed designs for a supersonic Hyperloop transport system to link Los Angeles and San Francisco in just 30 minutes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A mixture of large and small windows puncture the cedar-clad facade of this house by French studio Atelier Delphine Carrère, to both frame views and maintain privacy (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: despite its name, this chair by Dutch designer Reinier de Jong is made from old wooden broom handles. (more...) View the full article

Portuguese studio Belém Lima Arquitectos has perched a pair of gabled cabins on the edge of a dam in northern Portugal to provide a public boathouse and cafe (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article