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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

Our Pinterest board is dedicated to interesting uses of weathering steel, including a California residence clad in weathered steel panels and a theatre complex in Denmark designed as a series of steel cubes. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›

A five-day festival of craft kicks off in London on Wednesday, with events across the capital dedicated to makers and artisans. Design editor Augusta Pownall picks out six of the best to take in. Read more

World Architecture Festival 2012: the Kallang River Bishan Park in Singapore by landscape designers Atelier Dreiseitl has been given the title Landscape of the Year at the World Architecture Festival (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

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

This wooden extension to a house in Paris by MIR architectes and Nicolas Hugoo has an angular roofline that frames a window at the front and wraps around a terrace at the rear (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The American architecture studio led by Pritzker Prize-winner Thom Mayne has unveiled its design for a 381-metre-tall mirrored hotel tower in Vals, Switzerland. (more…)

Triangular roof lights step up the side of this terrace of houses built on a former industrial site in north London. (more…) View the full article

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Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: new technologies mean the design process is becoming akin to "creating a Hollywood film," says designer Francis Bitonti, who created a seamless 3D-printed dress for burlesque dancer Dita von Teese. (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 lower floor of this long narrow house by Dutch studio 123DV is mostly buried beneath two grassy mounds (+ slideshow). (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

Curvaceous wooden reading dens and lily-pad-like cushions for jumping on are among the playful features that architecture firm BIG has included in co-working company WeWork's first school, which has opened in New York City. Read more View the full article

A research team from ETH Zurich used 3D-printed moulds to make the skeletal framework for this all-concrete boat, which won first prize for design innovation at the Concrete Canoe Regatta. Read more View the full article

Italian architect Stefano Boeri has unveiled plans for a "vertical forest" in China, a pair of towers covered with trees and trailing plants in the centre of Nanjing. Read more View the full article

British fashion designer Anya Hindmarch has teamed up with design collective Numen/For Use to create a London Fashion Week installation that sees visitors clambering through woven, electric-blue tubes in a Soho car park. Read more

Designer Adam Nathaniel Furman has created a pair of chairs based on intimate parts of the body. Read more View the full article

Sixteen escalators clad with nickel bronze now feature in the entrance hall of London department store Harrods, as shown in this exclusive movie produced by Dezeen for architecture office Make. Read more View the full article

This tall, gabled house by Bernardo Bader Architekten is covered in lengths of blackened timber and stands on the edge of a small stream in Lochau, Austria (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Brussels' €125 million (£109 million) Centre Pompidou is to be designed by noAarchitecten, EM2N and Sergison Bates architects. Read more View the full article

Marble furnishings, lagoon-coloured walls and arched doorways are among the features that Dorothée Meilichzon has incorporated in the interiors of this Venice hotel, which is meant to mirror its surroundings. Read more

These back-to-front shoes by designer Leanie van der Vyver force the wearer to walk in an unnatural way (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Interior designer Olena Yudina used a monochrome colour palette for the redesign of this apartment in Kiev, adding glazed brick walls to every room and a recurring bird motif to bring the owners good luck (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A solid aluminium cast of one of Tom Dixon's brogues has caused an awkward diplomatic faux pas during an official visit by the Japanese prime minister to Israel. Read more View the full article