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Dezeen Watch Store: Take Time, a timepiece inspired by a traditional pocket watch by French designer Mathieu Lehanneur is now available for pre-order at Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) View the full article

The Black Friday Sale continues at Dezeen Watch Store, with many bestselling styles discounted by up to 25 per cent. We've picked out six of the best. Read more View the full article

Five architecture studios have contributed facades to this parking garage in Miami Design District, resulting in a mash-up of bold eclectic styles. Read more View the full article

Apple has collaborated with New York's New Museum to launch a series of augmented reality (AR) experiences that will see six large-scale virtual artworks take over major global cities. Read more

Product news: Polish designer Oskar Zieta will launch a collection of modular furniture made from Meccano-like perforated steel plates at MOST in Milan next month (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The Royal Academy of Arts has named Iranian architect Alireza Taghaboni as the winner of the inaugural Dorfman Award, set up to celebrate talent that "represents the future of architecture". Read more View the full article

Architect Renzo Piano has been called upon to lead reconstruction efforts in towns left devastated by the earthquake that struck central Italy last week, and to mitigate against future disasters. (more…) View the full article

"It is a necessary political act to name women as authors of buildings," says Jane Hall, writer of Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women. Here she picks out eight female architects featured in the book. Read more View the full article

London developer Cube Haus has commissioned Adjaye Associates, Faye Toogood, Skene Catling de la Peña, and Carl Turner Architects to design affordable modular houses for awkward urban sites. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Gijs Bakker, head of the masters school at Design Academy Eindhoven, is leaving the schol after 25 years, the school has announced. His departure this week coincided with graduation week for masters students and was followed by the resignation of the heads of all three masters courses. (more…) View the full article

Design studio Post-Office has transformed an old photographic storage unit in east London into an office and creative studio (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This cavernous 3,000-square-metre spa by DecaArchitecture is located within a building that is carved into the base of a mountain in Mystras, Greece. Read more

Polish designer Szymon Hanczar's micro apartment in Wroclaw contains a kitchen, bedroom and bathroom all within the confines of just 13 square metres (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A dry cleaners on Manhattan's Upper West Side has been converted into a store for cosmetics brand Aesop, for which Tacklebox Architecture has created display shelves with profiles of upside-down clothes hangers. Read more View the full article

Next up in our series looking at houses from each American state, we're venturing south to Tennessee, where some of the best homes include a timber-framed farmhouse and a tall home squeezed onto a tight site in Memphis. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Competitions for Designers is inviting graphic designers to create labels for red wine produced at the Cantina Valpolicella Negrar winery in Italy. Read more View the full article

Japanese architect Kazuhiko Kishimoto has combined a doctor's surgery and a courtyard house in a bulky building with tapered concrete feet (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

When Zaha Hadid Architects’ 330,000-square-metre Galaxy Soho complex opened in Beijing last month our readers were left guessing how it relates to the surrounding neighbourhood, so here’s a new set of images by photographers Hufton + Crow to show just that (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The ruins of Casa Sperimentale, an experimental concrete treehouse built by Giuseppe Perugini and Uga de Plaisant, have been digitally recorded for a new exhibition. Read more

Jamie Fobert Architects has completed a cliffside extension to the Tate St Ives in Cornwall, southwest England, which includes an underground gallery, a rooftop garden and ceramic cladding that mirrors the hues of the sea. Read more View the full article

Following our story about plans for a 3D-printed house, Universe Architecture's Janjaap Ruijssenaars tells us about the race to be first to print an entire building (+ interview + slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The design community doesn't seem to like Donald Trump very much. With just two weeks until the US presidential election, here are five products and proposals influenced by the Republican Party candidate. Read more View the full article

New York branding and graphics firm Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv has pared back the "complicated" flaming ball logo of the US Open Tennis Championships to just three yellow stripes and lower-case text. Read more View the full article

White quartz, Venetian plaster and various types of wood feature in this bright and airy tea shop, designed by architecture firm New Practice Studio. Read more View the full article

London Design Festival: in addition to our Dezeen Super Store in the Seven Dials area of Covent Garden, Dezeen Watch Store will be popping up at two different locations from tomorrow: designjunction and 100% Design. (more…) View the full article