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PKMN Architectures has renovated an apartment on the Spanish coast, adding modular storage walls that spin around to create extra bedrooms for guests (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Riga studio Mailītis AIIM has used scaffolding poles, timber planks and corrugated plastic to create this events pavilion – one of three temporary structures built in the grounds of a former brewery in Latvia (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2013: Zaha Hadid imagined a block of ice formed in the crevasses of a glacier for the design of this bench, launching this week in the Tortona district of Milan. (more...) View the full article

Graduate shows 2016: Central Saint Martins student Mi Zhang has used dust from a prominent quarrying town in China to create a collection of colourful vessels (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

This apostrophe-shaped bridge in Hull, England, by London architects McDowell+Benedetti features a rotating mechanism so it can swing open to make room for passing boats (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New York-based designer Ben Denzer has attracted a fleet of followers on Instagram with his ice cream photography series, which see tasty frozen treats matched with aesthetically pleasing books. Read more View the full article

German studio Fabi Architekten has stacked a black building on top of a white building to create this house in the Bavarian countryside (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

An easily biodegradable material that could be "part of a global answer" to single-use plastic pollution has won its inventor, British designer Lucy Hughes, the international James Dyson Award. Read more View the full article

London Design Festival 2014: director Deborah Spencer and creative director Michael Sodeau introduce their highlights from designjunction 2014 in this movie produced by Dezeen for the show. (more...) View the full article

Mexican firms Shine Architecture and TA Arquitectura have converted an unused building at the Monterrey Institute of Technology’s León campus into a 24-hour studio for art and design students (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival 2015: the Royal Institute of British Architects' annual Regent Street Windows project returns with 13 new installations up and down one of London's most famous shopping streets (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Light projected through a soap bubble throws patterns generated by the tiny vibrations of a speaker onto the ceiling in this installation by Royal College of Art graduate Dagny Rewera (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

The music management company behind Lana Del Rey, Dua Lipa and Ellie Goulding has unveiled an expanded London office designed by Dominic McKenzie Architects. Read more

Dezeen promotion: the A' Design Award is now accepting architecture, interior and design project submissions for this year's competition. (more...) View the full article

American firm Kieran Timberlake has used prefabricated components to create a mountaintop retreat, composed of a main dwelling wrapped in weathering steel and glass, and two micro cabins for guests. Read more View the full article

Irish designer Johnny Kelly has debuted a short movie that attempts to show how design impacts on everyday life using basic shapes and without words (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Canadian designer Alexandra Hutchison has opened an eatery with her husband in Toronto, creating interiors influenced by a trip to coastal California. Read more

Japanese studio Hiroyuki Ogawa Architects has created a smoking room that is designed to never be smoky inside a shopping centre on the outskirts of Tokyo (+ slideshow). (more…)

Dutch designer Wouter Biegelaar used blocks of ice to sculpt a single piece of furniture for lounging, sleeping and dining inside a suite at the Icehotel in Lapland (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: record numbers of overseas students have applied to study architecture and design courses in the UK, with applications up 14% on last year. (more...) View the full article

A louvred wooden X-shape filled with staircases connects the two laboratory wings of this scientific research centre by architects Lyons at the Australian National University in Canberra (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Glasgow School of Art has been destroyed beyond repair, say experts, with the costs of rebuilding estimated at more than £100 million. Read more View the full article

Amsterdam studio Formafantasma designed a set inspired by the architectural elements in paintings by Italian artist Giotto di Bondone for Sportmax's Milan Fashion Week show (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: Frank Gehry and Norman Foster have been appointed to design a series of buildings as part of the £8 billion redevelopment of Battersea Power Station in London. (more...) View the full article

Israeli artist Daniel Rozin has created an interactive "mirror" from faux-fur bunches that change colour to create moving silhouettes (+ movie). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]