News Feed

Bored with the dismal view from the office window, Polish studio Zalewski Architecture envisioned a grassy suspended walkway that would allow them to take a stroll without leaving the building. (more…) View the full article

Japanese designer Shiro Kuramata's 1989 Miss Blanche chair has sold for its highest ever price during an auction at Sotheby's London. (more…) View the full article

Miysis Studio has created an animation showing its vision of a rebuilt Notre-Dame that combines a reconstruction of Viollet-le-Duc's spire with a modern glass roof. Read more

Pornhub has revealed a tongue-in-cheek concept design for a wearable device that would generate energy from masturbation (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

The Ron Arad Rocks! exhibition at the Louisa Guinness Gallery in London brings together old and new work from the Israeli designer, including his latest range of jewellery made from jagged pieces of silicone (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Sitting on a steep cliff overlooking the Mastrafjord in Norway, Vacation House by Espen Surnevik has sliding doors that enable it to become a single continuous space. Read more

Venetian designer Luca Nichetto has created a collection of cabinets carved with geometric patterns for Italian brand Casamania. (more...) View the full article

American architect Paul Andersen has designed a series of commercial structures in Colorado with deceptive facades that rise higher than the actual buildings – a style that was popular in the Old West. Read more View the full article

The Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 closes this weekend and this movie by Cristobal Palma shows how visitors to the Chilean Pavilion had to walk over a bed of salt while viewing proposals for Chile’s public spaces on glowing boxes suspended from the ceiling. (more…) View the full article

A variety of spaces are contained within this Sydney yoga studio, each designed by architect Karen Abernethy to offering visitors a different sensory experience. Read more View the full article

The inaugural Fikra Graphic Design Biennial, in the UAE emirate of Sharjah, shows how the region can rethink its approach to adaptive reuse of buildings. Read more

A raw concrete house in Alicante by Spanish studio Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos becomes the scene for a string of mysterious murders in this series of images by photographer Luis Diaz Diaz (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Fertig Design has created a visual identity for the Re:publica conference that uses lengthy passages of text and typography instead of conventional graphics to pay "homage to the written word". Read more

Australian architecture studio Room 11 has created a three-kilometre riverside pathway in Tasmania where brightly coloured boardwalks are punctuated with public pavilions (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The gaping hole in the centre of this office block in Paris was designed by MVRDV to preserve views of another local building (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

In a newly released video, American architect Jeanne Gang explains how natural crystal formations inspired the shape of Vista Residences, a new skyscraper proposed for Chicago that will be the world's tallest building designed by a woman (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2016: British designer Lee Broom will recreate part of an Italian palazzo inside a delivery van for a travelling installation to showcase his latest 90s-inspired lighting collection. (more…) View the full article

After being instructed not to design a "white box minimalist house", MAC Interactive Architects specified weathered timber boards for the exterior of this narrow Sydney residence (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New York firm GRT Architects has used a simple palette to offset the existing details of this mid-century house in New York's Hudson Valley, which it overhauled for the architect's grandchild. 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

This conceptual food by Royal College of Art graduate Minsu Kim would wriggle around on the plate and in your mouth (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

We don't all need to become vegan to create a sustainable and biodiverse future, in fact quite the opposite, argues designer Sebastian Cox, in response to Erez Nevi Pana's suggestion that vegan design can limit climate change. Read more

OMA New York is turning a historic post office in Houston, Texas into a complex featuring arts and music venues, workspaces and "one of the world's largest rooftop parks and farms". Read more

In the third of our A-Zdvent calendar of architects, C is for Santiago Calatrava, whose projects include the Liège-Guillemins station in Belgium (pictured) and the Fourth Bridge on the Grand Canal in Venice. See more architecture by Santiago Calatrava » View the full article

The concrete walls inside this house in Poland by Ultra Architects were formed against wooden boards, creating a grainy texture that inverts the surface of the timber-clad facade (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article