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With our early entry discount ending tomorrow on 31 March at 23:59 UK time, here are some of the most frequently asked questions some of the Dezeen Awards 2020 entrants have been asking us this week! Read more View the full article

With our early entry discount ending tomorrow, here are answers to some of the questions Dezeen Awards 2019 entrants have been asking us this week! Read on to have your last-minute queries answered. Read more

A team of designers are presenting a concept for a modular engine that could fit into any vehicle at the Bio 50 biennial of design in Ljubljana (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

One for Hundred is a furniture brand based in Austria that produces more wood than it uses. Read more View the full article

Here are some photos of the recently-completed One Hyde Park residential development in London by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, which boasts the most expensive apartments in the world. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Lee Broom will also launch two faceted pendant lights in white and gold at the London Design Festival next month (see our earlier story on his Architrave collection). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American designer Jamie Bush has decked out a New York apartment with 1970s furniture and contemporary pieces to fuse architectural designs that are new and old. Read more View the full article

Dutch designer Kiki van Eijk has created this series of 14 mantle clocks, each made from a different metal wire or finish. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design agency One Rise East has created a set of 26 coins to represent an A to Z of modern-day Britain, as an alternative to the collection released by the Royal Mint. Read more View the full article

London studios Anomaly and Unit 9 are collating patterns donated by artists, which users can print out with instructions to make origami cranes in exchange for a donation to disaster relief in Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

There's just one week left to save 20 per cent on entry fees for Dezeen Awards 2020! On top of this, don't forget that small companies pay half price. Read more View the full article

With seven days to go until the Dezeen Awards early-entry discount ends, we've put together a day-by-day guide to help you meet the deadline. Read more

With one week to go until our agenda-setting architecture and design conference Dezeen Day, there are just 30 places left. Buy your ticket before they sell out! Read more View the full article

News: figures released this week reveal that One World Trade Center is now the most expensive skyscraper of all time, having cost more than twice as much as the world's tallest building. (more…) View the full article

News: One World Trade Center in New York has been officially declared tallest building in the western hemisphere, following a debate over whether the spire can contribute to its overall height. (more...) View the full article

News: One World Trade Center in New York has topped out with the addition of a 124-metre steel spire. (more...) View the full article

News: the first tenants have moved into offices in Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's newly opened One World Trade Center in New York. (more...) View the full article

This time last year Dezeen was all about the great outdoors with a zoological park on a series of artificial islands, a glass objects made in the desert and Peter Zumthor talking about his Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. (more…) View the full article

This time last year the Groninger Museum re-opened in the Netherlands following a renovation including areas designed by Studio Job, Maarten Baas and Jaime Hayón. Also in the Netherlands, Marcel Wanders created a dinner service for Dutch airline KLM and Hella Jongerius presented 300 porcelain vases at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, where forty of them were damaged when a visitor to the museum became ill and fell over. Popular stories on Dezeen included a city with buildings that roll around on train tracks, a bright yellow nursery school outside Stockholm and conceptual packaging design for well-known supermarket products with stripped-back packaging.…

One year ago this week, stories on Dezeen included a space ship, an office and its contents painted entirely in white, and planks of wood made from recycled newspaper. (more…) View the full article

One year ago Dezeen readers looked ahead to the apocalypse, when an armoured cabin might come in handy, while Frank Gehry unveiled controversial designs for a business school with a crumpled-up facade. We featured a chair made from squashed-up fibre cement and a pair of 3D-printed shoes that one reader called “blister-tastic”. Meanwhile, a youth hostel filled with fabric bedroom pods opened in a former factory in Italy and a futuristic, cave-like bar made a few readers feel nauseous. We revealed the news that industrial designer James Dyson was succeeding Terence Conran as Provost of London’s Royal College of Art and our most popular stories of the week were a pair …

The series of square waterfalls at the memorial in the footprints of the World Trade Centre buildings (above) is just one of many projects with square or cube-shaped features we published this time last year. (more…) View the full article

Introducing a new weekly feature on Dezeen: this time last year Foster + Partners completed the world’s tallest tensile structure in Kazakhstan as its architect Lord Foster surrendered his seat in the House of Lords to avoid paying full British taxes. Jean Nouvel’s bright red Serpentine Gallery Pavilion was reaching for the sky in London’s Kensington Gardens while students from the Royal College of Art exhibited their graduation projects across the road. Meanwhile the UK government scrapped its Building Schools for the Future programme in a £5 billion cost-cutting drive. See all our stories from July 2010 » See our review of last year » </img>&…

This time last year Danish designers KiBiSi designed a flying car, Eindhoven duo BCXSY were dressed as cavemen in our top ten primitive designs and an ice cream laboratory opened in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year Foster + Partners completed a solar-powered urban development in Abu Dhabi and unveiled plans for a museum in the same city with wing-shaped towers designed to act as thermal chimneys. Dezeen compiled an extensive report for kitchen appliances brand Scholtès that explored the relationship between food and design, Yves Béhar of Fuseproject sent us early sketches of his Jambox speaker and we rounded up all of our stories on education buildings. Zaha Hadid Architects’ proposal for a theatre in Morocco was described by one reader as looking like “a giant mobile phone or maybe a vacuum cleaner,” and architect Álvaro Leite Siza designed a home for himsel…