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Partitions that don't reach the ceiling create the illusion of a larger space in this renovated flat in Japan by Naruse Inokuma Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: industrial designer Konstantin Grcic's Traffic seating collection for Italian design brand Magis has gone into production. (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with the V&A Shop to give readers the chance to win a copy of a book about British furniture design since 1945. (more...) View the full article

News: the completion of Art Nouveau architect Antoni Gaudí's Sagrada Família basilica in Barcelona is simulated in this movie released to show the final stages of construction anticipated before 2026, 100 years after the death of the architect (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

This bulky concrete school of art, design and architecture was completed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando at the University of Monterrey in Mexico and is one of over 300 projects being showcased this week for the World Architecture Festival in Singapore (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product designer Alan Nguyen has taken a series of extreme close-up photos of 3D-printer filament waste, revealing how the machines can produce detritus of surprising beauty. (more...) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2013: we're reporting on the World Architecture Festival in Singapore this week. Category winners from the first day include a whirlpool-shaped aquarium and a sports college perforated with the shapes of athletes. (more...) View the full article

This house in Saitama, Japan, by Naf Architect & Design looks like it's been chopped in half and split open. (more...) View the full article

News: car brand Bentley has become the latest luxury brand to develop its own furniture line with the launch of the Bentley Home range of sofas, chairs and tables. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Italian tile manufacturer Refin has launched its latest collection of porcelain tiles in London and Bologna. (more...) View the full article

A smooth, curved concrete shell forms the exterior of this art studio in Boeotia, central Greece by Athens studio A31 Architecture (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: the Apollo lighting range by east London studio International has gone into production (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The long narrow bodies of snakes inspired the shapes of this pair of matching woodland hideaways that stretch out between the trees of a park in northern Portugal (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: Californian company Soma has launched an hourglass-shaped carafe and a biodegradable filter to fit in the top. (more...) View the full article

A city for fish modelled on a high-rise development underway in Xi'an, China, has been installed in a gallery next to the construction site (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The facade of this house in the English seaside town of Margate appears to peel away from the rest of the building and slump down into the front yard (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Dutch studio KoningEllis Architects used a combination of grey slate, warm timber and shimmering aluminium for the walls of a new building at this school for children with learning disabilities in Haarlem, the Netherlands (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Here are some more images of Zaha Hadid's Milanese shoe boutique for American footwear designer Stuart Weitzman. (more...) View the full article

Amsterdam designer Monique Goossens has made a typeface with strands of human hair. (more...) View the full article

This month the World Architecture Festival and Inside Festival are taking place in Singapore (pictured). We've also updated the World Design Guide to feature four new events coming up this year. (more...) View the full article

French architects RAUM have arranged a cluster of holiday apartments in Brittany around terraces that are connected by small alleys (+ slideshows). (more...) View the full article

News: furniture retail giant Ikea has announced plans to sell flat-packed solar panels. (more...) View the full article

Product news: design collective Outofstock have created a shelving unit inspired by suspension bridges. (more...) View the full article

News: American firm Steven Holl Architects has begun construction of a new building for the University of Iowa’s School of Art and Art History, adjacent to the award-winning Art Building West that the practice completed in 2006. (more...) View the full article

Product news: Japanese studio Nendo has created a range of porcelain with patterns that play on archival designs from a traditional Japanese pottery. (more...) View the full article