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Tigg Coll Architects has renovated a student accommodation building in London's Kings Cross, with interiors based on the area's railway heritage. Read more View the full article

Product news: British designer Tom Dixon's latest collection, launching at MOST in Milan next month, includes solid brass champagne buckets and faceted furniture inspired by gemstones (+ slideshow). (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

Towering gold pillars shaped like palm trees, ivory carpets and black lacquer screens fill this dramatic concept store in Barcelona, which has been designed by haute couturier Djaba Diassamidze. Read more View the full article

Check out our Dezeen Watch Store summer sale for up to 40% off selected watches, including the moulded polyurethane Kaj by Karim Rashid, available in six vibrant colours including blue, shown above. Now only £59.00 (UK and EU) or £47.20 (rest of world). Buy now » View the full article

British designer Tom Dixon has given his name and furniture to a sandwich cafe at London luxury department store Harrods. (more...) View the full article

Water flows in seemingly impossible ways across this liquid-resistant fountain by London designer Arthur Carabott (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Connecticut is the focus of this week's roundup of American houses, where our favourites include a bright red artist's studio overlooking Long Island Sound and an affordable dwelling in New Haven designed by Yale architecture students (+ slideshow). (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

German architects Kister Scheithauer Gross used Jewish symbol the Star of David to create patterned windows in the limestone walls of this synagogue in Ulm, Germany. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2016: German designer Thomas Schnur has designed a gridded storage system than can be used to display plants, hang up clothes, or as a framework for shelves (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Fernando Amat, the designer of the first-ever Camper store, has designed a new boutique for the footwear brand in Palma de Mallorca, featuring boxy display units with mirrored edges (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

We used this remix by The [An]architects as the soundtrack for the first of our daily TV shows from Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox at MOST, which we published this morning and you can watch here. We’ll be choosing a different track from Dezeen Music Project each day, so make sure you tune in to www.dezeenstudio.com tomorrow morning for the next episode. About Dezeen Music Project | More tracks | Submit your track View the full article

Dutch studio MVRDV is proposing a 400-metre skyscraper for Jakarta that looks like a pile of at least ten separate buildings. (more…) View the full article

Spanish fashion retailer Zara has announced that 100 per cent of the cotton, linen and polyester used in its clothing will be more sustainable, organic or recycled by 2025. Read more

Tech developments that made the news this week on Dezeen included MIT's nimble robotic fish for documenting marine life and Walmart's intentions for a system of drones that could help customers. Read more View the full article

News: Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled its first project in Brazil – an 11-storey apartment building overlooking Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. (more…) View the full article

Here's a selection of our favourite Christmas cards and movies we've received this year, including this one by photographer Luke Hayes, taken in Sheffield, UK (above). (more...) View the full article

London's V&A shows what the future of food could look like in its latest exhibition Food: Bigger than the Plate, which takes visitors through a full food cycle from compost to plate. Read more

Movie: in the final part of our series of exclusive video interviews with Bjarke Ingels, the architect compares his design method to the family game of Twister and claims BIG's Amager Bakke Waste-to-Energy Plant will "transform people's perceptions" about public utility buildings. (more...) View the full article

News: Foster + Partners is exploring the possibilities of 3D printing buildings on the moon using lunar soil. (more...) View the full article

Mathias Gmachl of Loop.pH explains how the London design studio's large-scale lighting installations help people relate to cutting-edge research in molecular biology in our next Designed in Hackney Day movie. (more...) View the full article

A pink concrete staircase, gabled roofs and brightly coloured walls define a school with in Zarren, Belgium, designed by architecture studio Felt. Read more View the full article

Milan 2015: Apple has presented its Apple Watch at a day-long event in Milan – the first time the brand has exhibited in the city during its annual furniture fair (+ slideshow). (more…) 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