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Interiors reporter Natasha Levy has selected 10 striking homes in east London that the city's creatives have designed for themselves. 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

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

Dezeen is giving away five copies of The Japanese House Reinvented by Philip Jodidio, a book featuring 50 houses that highlight Japan's current residential trends. Read more View the full article

LEFT Architects has built a house with a giant vaulted roof in the mountains of the village Niha that is designed to kneel down to one of Lebanon's most visited religious sites. Read more

We're taking a look back at our most widely read stories for each month of the year and July's favourite was a speed boat by Zaha Hadid, plus the news was full of the London 2012 Olympics. (more...) View the full article

British studio Adam Knibb Architects has completed a contemporary metal and wood-clad extension to Gatti House, an old Georgian vicarage in Hampshire, England. Read more

Please Be Seated is a giant outdoor seating installation made of three concentric rings of wave-like forms made from scaffolding planks. Read more

Italian-Singaporean designers Lanzavecchia + Wai have designed a collection of aids for the elderly with styling that’s more domestic than medical. (more…) 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

With all eyes on Rio ahead of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games, Brazilian firm Bernardes + Jacobsen Arquitetura has grouped three disused buildings under an undulating roof to create a new art museum and art school (+ slideshow + photographs by Leonardo Finotti). (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

Competition: Dezeen and publisher Taschen have teamed up to give away three copies of a book containing 50 remarkable treehouses. (more...) View the full article

Los Angeles firm Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects has restored a nineteenth century coach house in Dublin, Ireland, and inserted a contemporary house in front of it (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has won a competition to design a new centre for social sciences at the London School of Economics. (more...) View the full article

The mid-century-modern architecture of a nearby Marcel Breuer residence provided cues for a family home by Hufft Architects in Missouri. Read more View the full article

News: Danish studio Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and American firm Ralph Appelbaum Associates (RAA) have been chosen to design a Lego visitor experience centre in Billund, Denmark. (more...) View the full article

Mjøstårnet by Voll Arkitekter in Brumunddal, Norway, has been verified as the world's tallest timber building by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Read more

This bridge in Purmerend, the Netherlands, has a steeply arching upper level for pedestrians and a zig-zagging lower level for cyclists and wheelchairs (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: vodka brand Ketel One is inviting designers and entrepreneurs to submit innovative ideas for men’s lifestyle products and ventures. (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

Nina Tolstrup's design firm Studiomama has created a pastel-coloured wardrobe with doors that unfold into a partition for large rooms (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Identically proportioned rooms are arranged in a grid behind the yellow-dyed facade of this house in rural Chile, designed by architect duo Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen. (more...) View the full article

Wenink Holtkamp Architecten has converted De Lakfabriek, a 20th-century factory, into 25 industrial apartments in Oisterwijk, the Netherlands. Read more

The inaugural Dezeen Hot List has revealed that the late Zaha Hadid is the most talked-about design figure on earth, and that architecture is the hottest topic among Dezeen readers. Read more View the full article