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Architects can limit the environmental impact building has on our changing climate using their power as specifiers, they just need to take responsibility and do it, says Christine Murray. Read more

A curtain of red timber panels drape around the entrance pavilion to the Eriksberg Hotel & Nature Reserve in Blekinge, Sweden, designed by Sandellsandberg. Read more

Wooden cabinets can be stacked up in different configurations in the Assembled storage system, created by designer Paul Crofts for modular furniture brand Isomi. Read more View the full article

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur brings together his most emblematic pieces for a cosmology-inspired exhibition, set within the modernist walls of Villa Noailles in southeastern France. Read more

To coincide with Palm Springs Modernism Week, we've picked out the Californian desert city's best examples of mid-century residential architecture, which have hosted celebrities including Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra. Read more View the full article

A dynamic screen of illuminated, rotating polycarbonate discs shield the upper level of this home in Melbourne, completed by Layan for the director of local lighting design practice The Flaming Beacon. Read more

Graduate shows 2016: design graduate Micaella Pedros demonstrates how heat-shrunk plastic bottles can be used to create stable furniture joints in this movie filmed by Dezeen for the Royal College of Art (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

San Francisco firm Schwartz and Architecture has overhauled a single-family home on a steep and narrow site, lifting the existing building to add a storey beneath it, and creating an extension at the back over three levels. Read more View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for an interior designer/architect with Gundry & Ducker in London, whose projects include the award-winning Dove House extension (shown above). See more stories about Gundry & Ducker on Dezeen here. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs here. View the full article

Partitions that don't reach the ceiling create the illusion of a larger space in this renovated flat in Japan by Naruse Inokuma Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese architect Kazuhiko Kishimoto has combined a doctor's surgery and a courtyard house in a bulky building with tapered concrete feet (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Movie: a host of international designers including Ron Arad, Patricia Urquiola, Barber & Osgerby and the Campana Brothers discuss their involvement in Clerkenwell Design Week 2014 in this collection of highlight's from the festival this year. (more...) View the full article

Product news: magazines can be arranged at awkward angles within this sculptural magazine rack by Italian designer Marco Ripa. (more...) View the full article

The craggy rocks of the nearby Mediterranean shore inspired the faceted form of this auditorium building in Alicante, designed by Spanish architect Francisco Mangado. (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

Product news: this magnetic bicycle light by Danish design studio KiBiSi lights up instantly when its two halves snap together. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen is launching this year's edition of Dezeen Awards and hosting a series of talks with leading architects and designers at Stockholm Design Week 2019. Read more

London industrial designer Tej Chauhan's latest projects include a car tyre imprinted with the Nike swoosh and a smart speaker phone that links up with Amazon Alexa. Read more

News: Ikea has announced that it is to produce miniature versions of some of its most popular products for children to play with. (more...) View the full article

Black and white surfaces, indoor trees and a rooftop workspace all feature at the new head office for website building service Squarespace in New York (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Art galleries are held inside an illuminated glass tunnel and balanced high above the ground at this museum by Steven Holl, the centrepiece of an architecture complex in a forest near Nanjing, China. (more...) View the full article

The founders and board members of non-profit organisation Architecture for Humanity, which filed for bankruptcy last year, are being sued for the alleged misuse of donations. (more…) View the full article

This bright-white house in Alicante by Spanish studio Fran Silvestre Arquitectos features an 18-metre-long balcony that stretches out towards the Balearic Sea (+ slideshow + movie). (more…) View the full article

Canadian studio Diamond Schmitt Architects has completed a new home for the Emily Carr University of Art & Design, which features white facades that are meant to evoke a blank canvas. Read more View the full article

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