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Royal College of Art graduate Alex Kane explains how his virtual reality Volta production tool allows users to create multidirectional "spatial audio" in this video interview shot by Dezeen. Read more

Our new Pinterest board is dedicated to interiors that feature arches, including a Chinese cafe-cum-cocktail bar with emerald green walls and a rippled rose gold ceiling and a bookshop with imposing steel archways. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›

Product news: Japanese designers Nendo used glass from old Coca-Cola bottles to make these bowls with dimpled bases, which are meant to resemble the classic green bottles with their tops sliced off. (more…) View the full article

Portuguese architect João Branco has converted a small office building in Coimbra into a home by installing softwood joinery that functions as furniture, storage and partitions (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architecture studio AOC has renovated a four-storey townhouse in north London, adding wall-hung vintage bicycles and timber mouldings based on the faces of the resident family. (more...) View the full article

Furniture adorned with an intricate collage of gold and bronze motifs by the Campana Brothers is on show at the David Gill St James's gallery in London (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Sydney architecture studio CO-AP has renovated and extended a typical suburban home in the Australian city, adding a two-storey concrete structure that opens onto a garden at the rear. Read more View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with Wienerberger to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of Brick’12, the accompanying book for the Wienerbeger Brick Awards 2012 that took place last week. (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2014: Australian firm Taylor Cullity Lethlean has won the World Landscape of the Year prize for the second year in a row for the new National Arboretum on the outskirts of the Australian capital, Canberra (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Brazilian firm Reinach Mendonça Architects Associados has added a geometric concrete pavilion to a family home in São Paulo, offering a place for reading and entertaining. Read more View the full article

Tel Aviv student Iftach Gazit has designed food bags that can be added to the laundry cycle to cook dinner at the same time. Read more View the full article

Today marks 15 days to go until the Dezeen Awards 2019 deadline. We've put together a list of the most frequently asked questions to help you finish your entry. Read more

Furniture, tableware and objects from the Philip Johnson-designed The Four Seasons restaurant in New York are to be auctioned off, marking the destruction of "one of the rarest phenomena in Modernism" according to US critics (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Piero Gandini has resigned as CEO of Flos, the Italian lighting brand founded in 1962 by his father, following a clash of views with its new parent company Design Holding. Read more

Opinion: initiatives like What Design Can Do's Refugee Challenge encourage designers to believe that they can solve international problems that go far beyond their reach, says Ruben Pater. (more…) View the full article

Vienna Design Week: Spanish designer Martí Guixé presented an upmarket version of a box of wine at Sotheby’s in Vienna earlier this month. (more…) View the full article

With just 15 days left to take advantage of our early entry discount, here are 15 reasons why you should enter Dezeen Awards 2019. Read more

Milan 2014: holes and tunnels in the top of this wooden desk by Hong Kong-based designer Hao Ruan of LYCS Architecture have been designed to provide a playground for cats (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Glass floors allow residents to look down from a dining table into a toilet inside this windowless concrete house in Shanghai by Chinese firm Atelier FCJZ (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Inuit snow goggles, opera glasses disguised as ladies' handheld fans and experimental sunglass designs from the 1960s feature among a trove of historical eyewear that has gone on display at Design Museum Holon. Read 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

The wooden framework of this Japanese house by Akasaka Shinichiro Atelier will allow the owners to adapt the lower floor into a photography studio or children's room (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A nursing professor and explorer have designed a portable life-support system that they claim allows divers to eat, sleep and decompress underwater. Read more

Slate-covered walls frame this swimming pool created by architecture studio LAD in the grounds of an Italian villa, which offers swimmers views of the surrounding hills and valleys (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Ivy creates a green camouflage across the walls of this garden studio, designed by Melbourne architect Matt Gibson for a writer based in the city. Read more