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News: after buildings that look like giant underpants and a stack of toilet rolls, here's a tower in Beijing that has been compared to a giant penis. (more...) View the full article

A bandage pack containing a bone marrow donor registry kit has won a White Pencil at the D&AD Awards (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Polish design studio Beza Projekt has created a range of joints for DIY furniture that resemble plasters from a first-aid kit. (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2015: Beckman's College of Design student Matilda Beckman has used dust from the floors of vintage clothes shops to form a collection of furniture. (more…) View the full article

This small wooden hut is a combined guest house and sculpture studio perching on the edge of Lake George in upstate New York (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: German designer Daniel Becker has created a series of wall lamps based on the patterns of crystalline structures. (more...) View the full article

Rounded lettering frames windows on the facade of this primary school in Bangalore by Indian firm Cadence (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

We've created a new Pinterest board collecting together the best examples of plywood architecture, interiors and design following the popularity of three recent projects featuring the versatile material. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more plywood architecture and design View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in the second part of our interview with Maarten Baas, the Dutch designer reflects on how his career has progressed since the burnt furniture he developed for his 2002 graduation project immediately brought him to the attention of the design world. (more...) View the full article

The fibrous metallic garments in Central Saint Martins graduate Graham Fan's London Fashion Week collection are reminiscent of wire brushes used for cleaning the dishes. (more...) View the full article

Paris studio Jouin Manku installed a sculptural fireplace and chose materials with natural tones and textures to give this lounge in Munich's Bayerischer Hof hotel the feel of a fantasy forest landscape. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: designer Alvaro Catalan de Ocon has created a range of wicker lamp shades woven with old plastic bottles by artisans in Chile for his PET Lamps project. (more...) View the full article

London designer Dominic Wilcox has created a giant pair of audio binoculars that allows users to "listen" to – rather than see – places around Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch designer Jólan van der Wiel's latest experiments with magnets have resulted in fantastical architectural models made using metallic clay (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

This wedge-shaped cabin in the Czech Republic, by Prague studio FAM Architekti, has a folding screen set into one of its slatted timber facades to open the interior out to a nearby lake (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Vienna Design Week 2014: Vienna designers TaliaYStudio have released their first range of self-produced products with JellySeries 1, a collection of brass pendant necklaces that hold circles of yellow, cyan and magenta glass that can be used as camera filters (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam is hosting an exhibition of work completed by Studio Wieki Somers over the past decade, including a collection of lamps based on sixteenth century Japanese Samurai flags (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This red-painted timber-clad extension was added to the rear of an old stone farmhouse in Portugal, framing a new courtyard at the centre of the family home (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architect David Chipperfield has attacked the way the British press reports on architecture and accused journalists of damaging the profession. (more…) View the full article

Construction work has started on a new concert hall by Mexican firm Rojkind Arquitectos in Boca del Rio, Mexico, featuring a bold geometric form that references the jagged outline of an adjacent jetty. (more…) View the full article

The Flight 93 crash-site memorial built to commemorate the victims of 9/11 opened to the public today in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, marking the 14th anniversary of the attacks. (more…) View the full article

New York studio Young Projects has completed a warming hut for a housing development in Alberta that consists of a fireplace set within a slatted wooden box (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

British designer Ewan Cashman has created a cement and wood floor lamp based on the shapes of spinning top toys he played with as a child. (more…) View the full article

A trio of glass-ended boxes forms this compact Melbourne house by Austin Maynard Architects, which was designed to give the resident family "just the right amount of space" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The booming market for luxury apartments in New York "is an issue" that could damage the city, according to hotelier and real-estate developer Ian Schrager – and micro apartments could be the solution. (more…) View the full article