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News: the shortlist of interior design projects for this year's Inside Awards has been announced, with Zaha Hadid's undulating cultural centre in Azerbaijan, a hotel filled with gullies and waterfalls, and Google's headquarters in Japan all making the list (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: London designer Ron Arad has designed a wavy plastic bench shaped liked the infinity symbol, with curving backrests stretching upwards at each end. (more...) View the full article

Danish architects 3XN have completed a star-shaped regional headquarters for the United Nations in Copenhagen - complete with a spectacular staircase rising through the centre of the atrium (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: the shortlist for awards at this year's World Architecture Festival in Singapore features over 250 projects, including a floating theatre in China, a giraffe house in New Zealand, a research station in Antarctica and a whirlpool-shaped aquarium in Denmark. (more...) View the full article

News: furniture giant Ikea has used its expertise in flat-pack design to redesign refugee shelters. (more...) View the full article

Design graduate Tanya Shukstelinsky has proposed a new type of affordable urban housing, with people living between two sheets of suspended fabric (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Zaha Hadid's latest architecture exhibition features glowing funnels that bulge down from the ceiling to greet visitors (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen archive: do architects make good shoe designers? Or do they merely create buildings for the feet? As Zaha Hadid unveils footwear designs for United Nude, we've brought together more shoes by architects such as Jean Nouvel and Oscar Niemeyer (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the second part of London graduate exhibition New Designers will showcase industrial, graphic and spatial design projects from today until 6 July. (more...) View the full article

Architect Zaha Hadid has designed a pair of limited-edition chrome-plated shoes with 16.5-centimetre cantilevered heels (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The southernmost tip of Scotland's Isle of Skye is the setting for this small wooden house by local firm Dualchas Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese studio Nendo has designed packaging for coffee-flavoured beer by adding little bean-shaped stickers to the brewer's existing bottles. (more...) View the full article

The architects of Polish studio PL.architekci have created a new studio for themselves inside a disused loft in Poznan (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A grand top-lit atrium forms an entrance to concerts, recitals and classrooms at this music school in Manchester by local architects Stephenson: ISA Studio (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

More showers! These hybrid shower-lights were created by Japanese designers Nendo for bathroom brand Axor and unveiled last week alongside the multi-headed shower by Front (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Swedish design trio Front have created a giant, three-headed shower installation constructed from a maze of standard copper pipes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: ten Dezeen readers can receive a 25% discount when booking their place for this year's Global Design Forum, taking place on 16 and 17 September in London. (more...) View the full article

Ithaca design studio CODA has installed a wall that squirts water and is clad with skateboard offcuts in the courtyard of MoMA PS1 in New York. (more...) View the full article

Adornments that deploy robotic wings when someone gets too close or change colour when the wearer is embarrassed have been designed for introverts by Goldsmiths graduate Lilian Hipolyte Mushi. (more...) View the full article

A long white staircase leads straight to the top floor of this small house in Tokyo by Japanese office Apollo Architects & Associates. (more...) View the full article

This woven rattan tunnel by Dominican designers Natalia Ortega Gámez and Jose Thén offered a secluded hangout at Caribbean music festival Bacanalia (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

It's the time of year for graduate shows and summer workshops, and our World Design Guide update picks out the New Designers exhibition in London and Domaine des Boisbuchet classes in rural France. (more...) View the full article

London studio AY Architects has constructed a small wooden nursery in a public garden in Camden. Scroll down to see a pair of cute axonometric drawings (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Jeongwon Ji has made her own bioplastic from crab shells. (more...) View the full article

News: London firm Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has applied for planning permission to construct a 27-hectare headquarters for Google in London's King's Cross. (more...) View the full article