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Concrete walls, wooden floors and simplistic furnishings form "transparent" living spaces within this pair of formerly light-starved Tokyo apartments renovated by Norm Architects and Keiji Ashizawa Design Read more

Measuring people's happiness with architecture is a step towards trying to control them, says Reinier de Graaf. Read more

Interior design studio Roman and Williams has installed cabinets inside its New York showroom that are filled with tchotchkes coloured to match a new paint palette by Farrow & Ball. Read more View the full article

Industrial design duo Liang-Jung Chen and Shuei-Yuan Yang create household objects by reimagining commonplace metal hardware items. Read more View the full article

The best new hotels in the Middle East and Africa take ownership of their unique contexts, say the judges of this year's AHEAD Middle East and Africa Awards, in this video produced by Dezeen. Read more View the full article

Golden polycarbonate mesh stretches across the canopy of this pavilion in Marsden Park, Sydney, designed by architecture practice CHROFI . Read more View the full article

US firm Bates Masi Architects has lifted this New York home above the ground and added lower-level screens to let water pass underneath, helping ensure that "flooding becomes a non-threatening event". Read more View the full article

A host of large-scale installations have been built amidst the canyons of the Al Ula desert in Saudi Arabia that reflect the landscape and its heritage for the returning Desert X exhibition. Read more View the full article

BIG has unveiled visuals for No 1 Quayside, an office in Newcastle, UK, which will have a snaking form to echo the curving bridges that span the River Tyne. Read more View the full article

SOM's David Childs has updated the design of a pair of towers proposed to occupy the site of Santiago Calatrava's Chicago Spire. Read more View the full article

Blades taken from retired wind turbines form a sculptural playground in this conceptual Burning Man installation designed by American architecture firm Michael Mannhard Workshop. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: the Workshop Table for Muuto "has an almost archetypal appearance," according to designer Cecilie Manz. Read more View the full article

Twelve volumes built with rammed earth form this residence in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, designed by Cherem Arquitectos. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: Undulating legs characterise the solid wood Curtain table by Berlin-based studio Läufer & Keichel for furniture manufacturer Zeitraum. Read more View the full article

In Milan next month British designer Matthew Hilton will launch an upholstered three-legged chair for Portuguese brand De La Espada. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Alex Josephson, co-founder of Toronto studio Partisans, speaks to Dezeen in a live Screentime talk sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch the broadcast live from 2pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Photographer Nelson Garrido has sent us these photographs of the recently-opened car park in Miami by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Matthew Carbone has sent us his photos of Frank Gehry’s latest project, the recently-completed Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This Manhattan apartment by Yoshihara McKee Architects‘ New York studio overlooks the city and Washington Square Park, and is decorated with copper leaf screens. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: business stationary brand Vistaprint have introduced a range of customisable business cards inspired by architecture and design. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designers Studio Glithero present an installation of 1000 tiles decorated with photosensitive prints at VIVID Gallery in Rotterdam. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Alfonso Architects have designed a church in Tampa, Florida using the Fibonacci sequence to generate the proportions. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: architecture and design products database Architonic present video interviews with designers including Naoto Fukasawa (above), Ineke Hans and Antonio Citterio, filmed at Orgatec 2010. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2011: Italian brand Cassina present a collection of wooden furniture originally designed by architect Le Corbusier in the 1950s at imm cologne in Germany this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs interviews Austrian designer Harald Gründl, member of the imm cologne Trendboard, in this movie interview filmed as part of our Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents in Cologne earlier this year. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article