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This cocktail bar in Vienna by Tzou Lubroth Architekten features a faceted ceiling of upside-down peaks inspired by the mountain landscapes of traditional Chinese paintings. (more...) View the full article

Architecture studio Penda has teamed up with engineering firm Arup to design a bridge made up of overlapping rings for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. (more…) View the full article

This weather-forecasting lamp creates an indoor cloud to warn of grey skies outside (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

News: Richard Branson has today revealed new architectural designs from Virgin, including a New York skyscraper shaped like a bunch of balloons, a Sydney tower with the form of a space shuttle and a moon hotel that looks like tubular bells. (more...) View the full article

French architect Jacques Garcia has designed an outpost for hotel brand NoMad in LA's old Bank of Italy, pairing its ornate ceilings, columns and marble flooring with floral furnishings and planting. Read more View the full article

Stockholm 2014: Swedish studio Front presents spherical glass lamps that appear to be steamed up at the Stockholm Furniture Fair and Northern Light Fair, which opens today. (more...) View the full article

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White light glows through the translucent facades of this workshop in Siegen, Germany, by Ian Shaw Architekten (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Stop worrying about the privatisation of public spaces, says Owen Hopkins, because the biggest threat to our democracy is the internet. Read more

Dara Huang of London studio Design Haus Liberty said she "used the palette that was already there" to ensure the newly created apartments of this converted building in the city's Marylebone district kept within a small budget (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Lithuanian design studio Rimartus looked to the shapes of flying birds to design its minimal Wing kitchen for manufacturer Imprimere (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

World Heritage Corb: next up in our series on the 17 buildings by Le Corbusier that have been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List is the architect's Notre Dame du Haut, the small chapel in Ronchamp, France, that has become one of his most iconic designs. (more…) View the full article

Central Saint Martins graduate Chiara Tommencioni Pisapia has proposed a method for improving the textile recycling process by using moths to break down the natural fibres in discarded clothing. Read more View the full article

A scale model of architect Kenzo Tange's now-demolished house and a full-size replica of a 16th century tea house feature in a blockbuster exhibition of Japanese architecture at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. Read more View the full article

London Design Festival 2013: this year's London Design Festival is upon us and we've compiled a special issue of our Dezeen Mail newsletter as a guide to the coverage we'll be bringing you over the coming days. Read Dezeen Mail special issue | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

This week on Dezeen: the death of legendary musician and creative force David Bowie, and the announcement of this year's Pritzker Prize winner dominated headlines this week. (more…) View the full article

This house in Tokyo by Apollo Architects & Associates has skylights in the roof and holes in the floor plates, allowing daylight to reach right down to the basement (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Windows angle out from the front of this family home in Ghent by Belgian architects Steven Vandenborre and Mias Sys, giving multiple perspectives on the street and city below. Read more View the full article

Milan 2014: the latest collection from Dutch design brand Moooi, including furniture and lighting by Marcel Wanders and Studio Job, will launch at this year's Milan design week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Our latest Pinterest board collects together the most popular exhibitions and installations from this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, including the British Pavilion that proposes sharing technologies as the solution to the housing crisis and Switzerland's cavernous cloud-like structure. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See all our Venice Architecture Biennale 2016 coverage View the full article

Italian furniture brand Kartell has released a "fully sustainable" version of its bestselling Componibili storage unit made from bioplastic. Read more

Bold red and yellow furnishings break up the otherwise pale interiors of this office in China, which MDDM Studio created inside a 1950s fabric factory. Read more

This reflective metal-clad box containing a restaurant rises like a periscope above a small shopping complex in São Paulo by French-Brazilian architecture office Triptyque (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Konstantin Grcic has teamed up with clothing brand Aeance on a sustainable fashion collection he describes as "an industrial designer's take on clothing". Read more

This steel and glass elevator shaft designed by Spanish architecture firm Ah Asociados rises out of a hillside on the outskirts of Pamplona in Spain to connect a suburb with the city (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article