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Amsterdam designer Quintus Kropholler has created this collection of nine products using asphalt concrete to highlight the impact of diminishing petroleum supplies (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Rust Architects has reorganised an apartment in Tel Aviv to allow light to flood into specific spaces at different times of the day. Read more View the full article

Australian studio Tony Hobba Architects sourced weathered steel piles that had previously been used as flood barriers to build this kiosk beside a surfers' beach in Torquay, Australia (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New York design studio Trueing has intended to put "an interesting spin on the familiar" with the bold hand-formed coloured glass chain links that feature in its latest collection of lighting. Read more

Shigeru Ban's design for an art gallery opening this summer in Aspen, Colorado, has been demonstrated by a new architectural model, following news that the Japanese architect will receive this year's Pritzker Prize (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

We hope you've all been good boys and girls for Santa this year! Hopefully he'll deliver the suggestions collected together in our updated Christmas list Pinterest board if you ask him nicely. Check out our Pinterest board full of presents and stocking fillers » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest» View the full article

Interior designer Ilse Crawford's London practice Studioilse has created the interior for a multipurpose arts space and restaurant in central Hong Kong with a lush garden terrace overlooking the city (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The shortlist of architects to resurrect Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace exhibition hall leads this week's Dezeen Mail newsletter, which also includes the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 191 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Materials and interior details are used to clearly define the old and new parts of this family home in Windsor, UK, renovated by London studio TDO (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Rubber pellets made from recycled car tyres form the knobbly surfaces of these bowls and pots by Dutch designer Debbie Wijskamp. (more…) View the full article

Graphic designer Cristina Vanko has been writing out all the SMS messages she sends by hand with a calligraphy pen. (more...) View the full article

Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby's creative consultancy MAP has designed a build-your-own computer kit (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Gabion walls, concrete staircases and huge rocks frame the spaces of this public park in Zaragoza by Spanish architects Héctor Fernández Elorza and Manuel Fernández Ramírez (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Shifting ceiling heights, sliding partitions and contrasting materials create a variety of spaces inside this house in Shiga, Japan, by Kouichi Kimura of Japanese studio Form (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: Pan Yi Cheng of Singapore studio P.A.C won the award in the retail category at the World Architecture Festival with his design for a shop for furniture brand Herman Miller. In this movie we filmed, the architect explains how a recent emergence of young practices is helping Singapore become a “more vibrant” place that is starting to find its own identity. (more…) View the full article

Students from London's Architectural Association have suspended a giant wooden cocoon between the trees of Hooke Park in Dorset, England (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Copper-clad panels behind the glazed facade of this gymnasium by French firm LAN Architecture produce tinted reflections of the surrounding buildings (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has developed a transparent modular kitchen system with smoked glass surfaces that display the tools inside (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Amanda Levete's London studio AL_A has won an invited competition to create a mosque as part of the Foster + Partners-designed World Trade Center Abu Dhabi development. (more…) View the full article

Architect Alejandro Zaera-Polo has filed a lawsuit against Princeton University for libel and breach of contract, after he was asked to step down as head of its architecture school over allegations of plagiarism. (more…) View the full article

Shoes that undergo physical changes to represent stages in a life cycle – from floating in amniotic fluid to rebirth through fire – form this collection by London designer Benjamin John Hall (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Stockholm 2015: Japanese designer Yuki Yoshikawa of Nanashiproducts used layers of acrylic gouache paint to highlight wood grains on the seat and back of these simple chairs. (more…) View the full article

The cylindrical St Andrews Beach House in Victoria, Australia, designed by Austin Maynard Architects does away with unnecessary circulation space to create a laid-back communal atmosphere. Read more

News: Herzog & de Meuron has revealed the latest images of its design for M+, the new museum of visual culture that recently broke ground in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

French office Périphériques has redeveloped a site in west Paris by adding apartment blocks with contrasting facades and angular balconies, as well as a nursery with stripy pink and green walls (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article