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Norwegian designer Per Finne has created a utensil based on traditional Japanese knives that he says offers enough flexibility to be the only knife needed in a home cook's kitchen (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Norwegian artist Per Kristian Nygård attempted to bring the outside inside with this installation that involved building grassy mounds inside an Oslo gallery (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New York designer Bradley Ferrada presented an elongated chair with a faceted back at NYCxDESIGN this week. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2011: French designer Pierre Favresse presented this collection of furniture with looping sections and bent ply at the Nouvelle Vague exhibition of new French design in Milan last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design studio H+O has fitted out an apartment in Milan's Brera district, showing how tiles can be used to create bold contemporary interiors. Read more

Concrete-like surfaces help Australian design studio Killing Matt Woods foster a dark and brooding atmosphere inside this Sydney apartment. Read more

A house in Vietnam by Khuôn Studio is built around a triple-heigh atrium filled with plants and shaded by a perforated facade of grey brick. Read more View the full article

Angled screens of perforated brick provide ventilation and shade for this housing block in Tehran by CAAT Studio, providing its residents with relief from the city's hot and dry climate (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The brick exterior of this Sydney house by Matthew Gribben Architecture belies its light-filled interior, which features five secluded courtyards arranged around the perimeter (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Mexican architect Frida Escobedo has transformed the former home and studio of painter David Alfaro Siqueiros into a public gallery and encased the entire complex behind a triangulated concrete lattice (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Faceted four-legged metal structures line the route through this landscaped park in the Chinese city of Chongqing by landscape architects Martha Schwartz Partners (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Swedish firms Johan Sundberg Arkitektur and Blasberg Andréasson Arkitekter used sheets of perforated metal to create a faceted facade for this office extension on a Lund industrial estate, helping to "break up the area's mediocrity" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Canadian firm Paul Bernier Architecte has extended a dental practice in Montreal with two floors of apartments covered in aluminium panels. Read more View the full article

Weathered steel screens cast chequerboard patterns of sunlight and shadow across the internal surfaces of this house near Tel Aviv by Israeli architect Pitsou Kedem (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

SCOB Architecture and Landscape has built a restaurant and an office block in Barcelona's Port Vell Marina, and covered both buildings with perforated white screens (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Perforated wooden shutters allow the residents of this São Paulo apartment building by Studio MK27 to control the levels of daylight in their living spaces (+ slideshow). (more…)

Perforated metal shutters give this Buenos Aires apartment building by Esteban-Tannenbaum Architects an ever-changing facade (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Coffey Architects has added a library with a perforated facade to London's Science Museum, as part of a major redevelopment that will also include galleries by Muf, Wilkinson Eyre and the late Zaha Hadid. (more…) View the full article

French office Périphériques has redeveloped a site in west Paris by adding apartment blocks with contrasting facades and angular balconies, as well as a nursery with stripy pink and green walls (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Layers of polycarbonate, netting and metal mesh wrap the scaffolding structure of this temporary visitor centre, designed by Peris + Toral Arquitectes for a public square in Barcelona (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Here’s another conceptual project from Shenkar College of Engineering and Design student Yaniv Berg (see his coffee machine in our earlier story), this time a digital SLR camera where the lens and body are merged to form a kinked cylinder. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A lockable wardrobe and twin-sized bed figure in this modular sleeping unit, which was conceived by architecture firm Perkins and Will in response to the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles. Read more View the full article

Perkins Eastman Architects' Green Line concept would see New York's iconic Broadway converted into a linear park running from Columbus Circle to Union Square. (more…) View the full article

Perkins+Will has overhauled the North American headquarters of consumer goods company Unilever, with new communal areas designed to help employees forget they're in a suburban office park. Read more

The London studio of Perkins+Will, working with Madrid-based architecture studio Rafael de La-Hoz, has won the competition to design the European Commission offices in Brussels. Read more