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This small portable lamp by ECAL graduate Claudio Gatto is powerful enough to be used on a balcony, in the basement or at the park. (more...) View the full article

Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of a book about the Golden Lion-winning Torre David project presented at last year's Venice Architecture Biennale. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Italian designer Denis Guidone has designed a watch based on smooth, flat pebbles - and the Stone watch is now available to purchase from Dezeen Watch Store. (more...) View the full article

Stairs and bookshelves wrap around a triple-height atrium inside this university library, which Danish architecture studio Adept describes as a "spiral of knowledge" (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Manhattan-based firm SHoP Architects has sent us a movie and more images illustrating its masterplan for Konza Techno City, a new "silicon" city 40 miles from Kenya's capital Nairobi (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Pornhub has revealed a tongue-in-cheek concept design for a wearable device that would generate energy from masturbation (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Today is World Book Day. To mark the occasion we've rounded up 10 of the best ways designers have stored books, from bookshelf staircases to a huge concrete case that spans the wall of a Mexico City home. Read more View the full article

The best new hotels are stimulating all of their guests' senses, say AHEAD Europe jury members in this movie Dezeen produced for the awards programme. Read more

Note Design's Focus divider can be rolled up and stored in a backpack for nomadic office workers who need more privacy (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2016: rounded trays extend from the sides of these bathroom fixtures by German designer Sebastian Herkner for Italian brand Ex.t. (more…) View the full article

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Grimshaw, Coop Himmelb(l)au and Moooi, whose latest products include a unicorn rocking horse (pictured). This is also the last chance to apply for roles with 3Gatti, Broadway Maylan, Hawkins Brown Architects and more... (more…) View the full article

The Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 closes this weekend and this movie by Cristobal Palma shows how visitors to the Chilean Pavilion had to walk over a bed of salt while viewing proposals for Chile’s public spaces on glowing boxes suspended from the ceiling. (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen, two big projects were given the green light – the new tallest building in western Europe and controversial London viewing tower The Tulip. Read more

News: the latest attempt to shift the "nerdwear" reputation of Google Glass is a collection of headsets by Diane von Furstenberg that look more like traditional eyewear. (more...) View the full article

Tel Aviv's apartment buildings are being transformed with contemporary interiors by a wave of local architects and designers. We've rounded up five of the best new apartment designs in the Israeli city, including a renovated space with a dramatic steel staircase and a penthouse with an infinity pool on the roof (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Tate Modern has released a time-lapse movie showing the building of Herzog & de Meuron's Switch House extension, which has already attracted record visitor numbers (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

News: the American Institute of Architects has announced 23 winners for the 2015 edition of its annual awards, including a visitor centre for the Wild Turkey Bourbon distillery, a cube-shaped courthouse and BIG's subterranean maritime museum in Denmark (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A chipboard shed and a herb garden occupy the top floor of this former factory in Tokyo that Schemata Architects has converted into a workshop for a kimono designer (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publisher Notting Hill Editions to give away 10 copies of a collection of essays by Ian Nairn. (more…) View the full article

Greek designer Savvas Laz used pieces of styrofoam packaging discarded in dumpsters to create this sculptural chair that aims to raise awareness of packaging waste. Read more

Multicoloured herringbone patterns cover sections of parquet flooring at these London apartments renovated by Alma-nac, which are used as guest suites for a record label (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Taking its cues from a cuckoo clock, Cuckoo House is a cafe combined with a four-person house in Da Nang, Vietnam, designed by architecture studio Tropical Space. Read more

A raw concrete house in Alicante by Spanish studio Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos becomes the scene for a string of mysterious murders in this series of images by photographer Luis Diaz Diaz (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a press manager to join New York-based SHoP Architects, which recently completed a pair of "dancing" copper-clad luxury apartment towers in Manhattan. More › View the full article

A whirring helicopter of LEDs creates the illusion of a glowing hat in this design by Moritz Waldemeyer for Irish milliner Philip Treacy (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article