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This engineering research facility at the University of Debrecen, Hungary, by NAPUR Architect has a steel-panelled facade that can fold open to let daylight penetrate the laboratories inside (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A combined staircase and bookshelf is one of several multifunctional wooden furniture pieces that Swiss design studio Big-Game has inserted into two plain white apartments in Switzerland (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A bright red shipping container at the entrance to the offices of Cape Town branding agency 99c houses a waiting room for visitors. (more...) View the full article

Milan design studio Skrivo has combined a steam-bent wooden frame with woven rattan material to create this angular chair. (more...) View the full article

A lamp by Finnish designer Tuomas Auvinen that fits neatly into the edges of a room has won this year's Muuto Talent Award for students. (more...) View the full article

The interior of this east London cafe by local firm TwistInArchitecture features copper tubes, timber boards and metal light fittings, designed to reference the area's trade history (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New York 2014: American magazine Sight Unseen asked designers to add bold prints to fashion and furniture designs using digital customisation company Print All Over Me. (more...) View the full article

Dutch studio Archiview gave this planetarium-like cinema in Groningen a spiralling dome structure, which invites comparisons with hats, eyeballs and UFOs (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Zaha Hadid has filed a law suit against the New York Review of Books and architecture critic Martin Filler after allegedly defamatory comments about her attitude to migrant workers were published as part of a book review. (more...) View the full article

Music: director Bradley Munkowitz used the infrared emitter from a Microsoft Kinect to cast the constellation-like patterns of light in this music video for American musician Tycho's latest single See. (more...) View the full article

The zigzagging roof of this family residence in South Korea prompted architecture studio Apparat-C to name it Twin Peaks House (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Design has become a "game changer" in Silicon Valley, according to a report by former Rhode Island School of Design president John Maeda. (more…)

Extra Moooi: today we're launching a new year-long collaboration with Dutch design company Moooi. In the first movie of our Extra Moooi series, Moooi co-founder Casper Vissers explains how the fashion industry shaped the brand's core philosophy. (more…) View the full article

A kilometre of steel corridors are wound within this industrial-looking maze at a former coal mine by Belgian studio Gijs Van Vaerenbergh (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Pomo summer: art director Jean-Paul Goude brought Postmodernism's bold shapes and historical references into the fashion world with his maternity dress for Grace Jones, which both disguised and celebrated her pregnancy. In the next instalment from our season, we explore the genesis of the dress and how it made Jones a poster child for the design movement everyone loves to hate. (more…) View the full article

Music: director Alan Del Rio Ortiz transports musician Petite Noir into patterned digital environments for his La Vie Est Belle music video. (more…) View the full article

German industrial designer Richard Sapper, who created iconic products for brands including Alessi, Knoll and IBM, has died aged 83. (more…) View the full article

Oslo studio Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter has completed a pine-clad cultural museum in western Norway, featuring a spiky roofline designed to help break up the scale of the building (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen: Apple's new iPhone came under fire this week, while MIT researchers proposed a system for driverless cars that could spell the end for traffic lights. (more…) View the full article

London designer John Pawson has completed the seventh property in Alain de Botton's Living Architecture series: a Welsh valley retreat with a dark skin and a pale interior (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Zaha Hadid 1950-2016: next up in our exclusive video series, Richard Rogers reflects on the battle to select Zaha Hadid's design for the London Aquatics Centre, a building he describes as "a roaring success". (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: a weathering-steel temple, marble-patterned tables and a pivoting glass door are among the 18 winners of this year's AZ Awards for architecture and design (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Comments update: New York's luxury construction boom continues to spark debate, as readers react to Elizabeth Diller's warning that supertall towers are damaging the city. (more…) View the full article

Toronto firm RZLBD has completed a three-storey house comprising two volumes split by a staircase in the middle (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A house with a climbing wall up one side and a home wrapped around a giant boulder both feature in this Wyoming-focused edition of our series about residential architecture from different US states (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article