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IKEA is set to launch an air-purifying curtain coated with a mineral-based surface that breaks down common pollutants. Read more

This renovation of a house in Tokyo by Keiji Ashizawa Design involved creating a courtyard through the upper storeys. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Portuguese firm A+R Arquitectos installed this staircase with floating wooden treads and a zig-zag hand rail as part of the renovation of a Portuguese house. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Jars of tea and second-hand books are separated in stacked wooden cubes at a Taipei teahouse. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Marcial Ahsayane of Brussels has designed an oil bottle and pestle that combine to make a rolling pin. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designers Amandine Chhor and Aïssa Logerot have created a range of furniture and lighting woven from water hyacinths in Cambodia. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

DezeenTV: in this next film in our series of Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents, Cologne gallerist Gabrielle Ammann explains how she came to exhibit and sell design, the need to categorize people and whether she would prefer to keep a Ron Arad chair or sculpture. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Clay bricks "stacked in a random pattern" create varying hues across the walls of this holiday home in Long Island, which New York-based architect Toshihiro Oki has designed for a client to host friends all year round. Read more

Berlin designer Ronen Kadushin has made a conceptual, open-source, contraceptive intrauterine device from a one-cent coin. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Portuguese studio Jorge Mealha Arquitecto have completed a house in Lisbon, Portugal, featuring clusters of rectangular volumes and courtyards. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architect Masato Sekiya has completed a house in Kasiwara, Japan, with a structure of wooden beams joined by bolts. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: structural engineer Cecil Balmond has left Arup to found his own firm - Architectural Record </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American design studio Volido have designed a sofa lined with pyramid-shaped sound-proofing foam. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stockholm designer David Taylor combines concrete, wood, silver, tin and DIY components in his latest collection of candle holders, dishes, mirrors and lighting. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Lots of new jobs on our recruitment site Dezeenjobs this week, including positions with Fuseproject in San Fransisco, Pro Materia in Brussels and Steven Holl Architects in Beijing. This is also the last chance to apply for jobs with Ginseng Chicken Architecture, Zwimpfer Partner, Mathmos and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Interlocking cypress-wood planks form the roof of the Mikuni Izukogen restaurant that Kengo Kuma has perched on a rocky hillside in Honshū, Japan. Read more View the full article

Photographer Julien Lanoo has sent us his photos of this transparent pool house in Munich, Germany by Berlin studio Baumhauer. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Rem D Koolhaas has just opened this store in Shanghai for his United Nude range of shoes. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Israeli firm Chyutin Architects have won a competition to build this museum that will bridge over a sunken garden in Jerusalem. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Still not sure what to do with your left-over Christmas tree? Royal College of Art student Tom Hatfield has turned a few of them into a sledge. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Two stark concrete houses in Lisbon feature secluded courtyards with overflowing ponds and swimming pools (photographs by Fernando Guerra). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This twisted residential tower clad in zinc-coated steel is part of a mixed use development proposal in Shoreditch, London by Amanda Levete Architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Norwegian designer Daniel Rybakken has installed LED panels replicating daylight on a dark staircase in Stockholm. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The New World Symphony’s orchestral academy designed by Frank Gehry opened yesterday in Miami Beach, Florida. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen and London architects Marks Barfield have teamed up to give away five copies of Gentle Landmarks, a monograph of their recent projects. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article