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Architects and designers have come up with inventive ways create privacy in open-plan offices. From plants to tunnels, here are the floor plans of 10 workplaces that are divided in unusual ways. Read more

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with MVRDV to give readers the chance to win a pink Twin House cushion from the studio's Vertical Village furniture collection, which launched in Milan this week. (more...) View the full article

News: craft skills contribute £3.4 billion to the economy, according to research that for the first time measures the economic impact of thousands of small craft businesses in the UK. (more...) View the full article

Last week we had a plaster cast made on a 3D printer and now here's a light made out of a plaster cast. (more...) View the full article

Istanbul Design Biennial 2014: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Rianne Koens stacked sets of different-sized wooden boxes on top of angled legs to form these furniture pieces. (more…) View the full article

After spotting a cartoon dining room set at Chamber gallery earlier this month, we've rounded up a variety of chairs, tables and lamps that resemble animated characters and comic book drawings – whether deliberately or not. Read more View the full article

The steel beam running through this compact bicycle by British industrial designer Ben Wilson means it can carry heavy loads on its front and rear platforms (+ slideshow + movie). (more…) View the full article

A house that incorporates the surrounding forest (pictured) and the world's largest building feature in Dezeen Mail issue 160, along with all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 160 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Brooklyn townhouses provide a blank canvas for creative renovations. US reporter Bridget Cogley selects eight diverse designs that include boldly coloured cabinets, pathways for cats and a huge slanted window. Read more

Our second story this week about Japanese architects no.555 features a low-budget house inspired by animals’ nests beside a rice field in Matsumoto (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Mexican firm Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos has released plans for a hotel in Baja California Sur with creature-like concrete suites integrated within a sloping desert. Read more View the full article

Product news: Australian designer Marc Newson has created a 22-piece collection with orange details for bathroom brand Caroma (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Joe Shih Architects and Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop have won the international competition to design an art museum in Taoyuan, Taiwan. Read more View the full article

News: Apple has applied for a patent for a slap bracelet with a video display that could be a blueprint for its much-anticipated "iWatch" concept. (more...) View the full article

Here's a full set of images from this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The extension to this refurbished house in Australia includes a covered outdoor space built around the trunk of a large lemon-scented tree (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

British firm Simon Conder Associates has built two wooden houses into the side of a steep hill in the English coastal village of Porthtowan (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Music: German animation studio Schnellebuntebilder used an XBox Kinect sensor to record glitchy footage of electronic trio Sissi Rada for their Sunday music video. (more…) View the full article

Travellers visting the Mexican town of Tepoztlan can spend a few nights, months or even years at this three-armed concrete guesthouse by architects Cadaval & Sola-Morales (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

British designer Tom Dixon has given his name and furniture to a sandwich cafe at London luxury department store Harrods. (more...) View the full article

New copyright laws in the UK have come into effect, effectively banning replicas of some of the most-copied icons of 20th century furniture design – including pieces by Arne Jacobsen, and Charles and Ray Eames (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Zaha Hadid Architects has completed the sculptural Niederhafen River Promenade in Hamburg, Germany, as part of the city's upgrade of its flood prevention system. Read more

Metal mittens, plates made from spoons and foraged clay bowls are among more than 500 pieces of cutlery and crockery created for the latest in a series of Experimental Gastronomy banquets. Read more View the full article

Home rental website Airbnb has opened an office in Dublin with a reception area modelled on an Irish pub designed by local architects Heneghan Peng (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Giant windows puncture this white concrete apartment building in Mexico City, which Mexican firm Taller Héctor Barroso has designed for brothers. Read more