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It would be better to pull down some of London's Georgian terraces than demolish Amin Taha's stone-framed housing block, says Sean Griffiths. Read more

New York-based firm Roger Ferris + Partners has built an artist's studio and residence clad with bright red siding on a Connecticut estate (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Design Indaba 2013: glow-in-the-dark roads and responsive street lamps were among the concepts to make highways safer while saving money and energy presented by Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde at the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town earlier this month. (more...) View the full article

Foster + Partners drew inspiration from Bedouin tents to create a canopy of domes over a new airport terminal that opened yesterday in Amman, Jordan (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New York-based design studio Asthetíque has completed a restaurant in Moscow called The Y that draws on the stylised sets of films directed by Wes Anderson. Read more

Competition: we’ve teamed up with Slovenian architect Nejc Trost to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of Chase for Space, his new book about architecture and space travel. (more…) View the full article

Beaded costumes designed for the Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans by artist and educator Big Chief Demond Melancon were on show at London's V&A museum for London Design Festival. Read more

Residents climb over an integrated desk, storage space and shelving to reach the suspended upper section of this staircase by Dutch design studio Mieke Meijer. (more...) View the full article

Architects and designers’ obsessions with concrete were epitomised by the projects we featured this time last year, such as this house that has concrete walls both inside and out (above). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Ermenegildo Zegna has launched My Cesare, its first customisable sneaker collection "where the worlds of luxury and streetwear meet". Read more

Dutch designer Hella Jongerius has created new versions of Modernist Alvar Aalto's iconic 901 tea trolley for Finnish furniture brand Artek. (more…) View the full article

British designer Sebastian Cox has used coppiced timber sourced from cultivated woodland to create this collection for UK furniture brand Benchmark (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Apple has collaborated with New York's New Museum to launch a series of augmented reality (AR) experiences that will see six large-scale virtual artworks take over major global cities. Read more

News: furniture retail giant Ikea has announced plans to sell flat-packed solar panels. (more...) View the full article

New York architect Toshiko Mori has renovated and extended a building originally designed by famed Modernist architect Marcel Breuer as a personal residence, connecting two structures with a glass-enclosed staircase (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A forest home for an art collector in Canada, and a Budapest metro station are among 20 buildings to receive RIBA Awards for International Excellence 2018 – and to be shortlisted for this year's RIBA International Prize. Read more View the full article

Artist duo Sofie Lachaert and Luc d'Hanis have recreated a terrace of workers' cottages to house an exhibition of their work at Belgium's Grand-Hornu Images museum (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Diagonal strips of timber clad this single-storey addition to a Hampstead apartment block, which also features a rooftop garden that can be used by neighbouring residents (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

UK architecture firm 5th Studio has added a shingle-clad extension to a house in a listed former inn that is raised above the flood level of the River Cam in Cambridgeshire (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Visitors to a fashion film exhibition in Milan organised by arts website POSTmatter were able to manipulate imagery on giant displays using movement and gestures (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Architects and designers can take an activist approach to instigate social change, according to participants in this year's Beirut Design Week. Read more View the full article

Kelly Jazvac is showing pieces of plastiglomerate at the Milan Triennale, a "warning sign" material that is a mix of molten plastic debris and beach sediment. Read more

The 2016 Burning Man festival is taking place this week in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, where New York-based creative director PieterJan Mattan has photographed his highlights from this year's event (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

British studio 1508 London has converted a Victorian post office in London into an apartment where perforated concrete shutters can be used to open and close different sections of the interior (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

We have compiled a new Pinterest board devoted to the recent growing presence of stunning Indian architecture projects on Dezeen, including the Awadh Shilpgram crafts hub and a Mumbai house covered in reclaimed windows and doors. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › View the full article