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We’ve teamed up with London restaurant Canteen to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of Great British Food – the eatery’s first collection of British recipes. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

To coincide with the Less and More exhibition about the work of German designer Dieter Rams that opens tomorrow in Frankfurt, Dezeen have got together with furniture brand Vitsœ to give away five signed posters showing Rams’s ten principles of good design. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Jonathan Glancey reviews London’s recently-opened Strata tower, the world’s first skyscraper with built-in wind turbines - Guardian </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish bicycle company Biomega launch two new bikes today, one by London designer Ross Lovegrove and the other by Danish design collective KiBiSi. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This clothing store in Tel Aviv by Z-A Studio of New York features items displayed on a pegboard that runs to the ceiling of the double-height space. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese studio Apollo Architects & Associates have completed a house in Tokyo, Japan, featuring a white rendered volume sitting on top of a concrete base and no exterior windows. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British architects NEX have designed this cubed timber pavilion for the Chelsea Flower Show in London with the same structural form as a leaf. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us some images of this town hall in Spain by Madrid architects Mansilla+Tuñón that is composed of overlapping circular discs. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

One year ago OMA, Foster + Partners and local firm Rocco Design Architects were competing to to create a master plan for the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong. Foster + Partners won in the end, as reported in March this year. Our most popular story was a house in Indonesia by Aboday with a concrete slide connecting the bedroom and kitchen, which turned out to be our most popular story of the whole year. If you prefer slides to stairs you can see more of them here. Meanwhile Ross Lovegrove unveiled his bicycle for Biomega, graduate designer José Ferrufino made a magical musical box with swaying ears of barley and Zeinstra van Gelderen architecten made a…

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with furniture brand Vitsoe and designers Heatherwick Studio, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with MAD, Tom Dixon, Universal Design Studio and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: a system that extracts moisture from air like a desert-dwelling beetle has won this year’s James Dyson Award for students working on innovative engineering solutions. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s a selection of projects by Dutch architect Herman Hertzberger, who was named as this year’s Royal Gold Medal recipient this morning. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Check out the latest issue of Dezeen Mail for all the best stories and comments from Dezeen, including a memorial to witches by Peter Zumthor, a car park by Zaha Hadid, Google’s new headquarters and a new London bus by Thomas Heatherwick. There’s also an update from Dezeen Wire, the latest movies on Dezeen Screen, all our new competitions and jobs, plus news on our latest pop-ups. Take a look at it here. Dezeen Mail is sent out every couple of weeks and you can subscribe here. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This tiny gabled pharmacy is squeezed into a narrow alleyway between two towering apartment blocks in Osaka. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: a sizeable hole in the roof of this gabled house in Oita, Japan, allows residents to climb outside and survey their surroundings. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve just added a new board to Pinterest compiling all the best photos of offices from the pages of Dezeen. We now have over 3000 followers on Pinterest – join in here. See all of our stories about offices. View the full article

Clumps of human hair are recycled as stuffing for two plastic pouffes by Swedish furniture and product designer Ola Giertz. (more…) View the full article

These pieces of jewellery by Central Saint Martins graduate Stéphanie Van Zwam are made from plastic bubbles and tubes that float around the wearer’s body (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Following our recent showcase of design talent in east London, the team behind new housing development VIVO have commissioned Dezeen to acquire ten pieces of original design by creatives surrounding Stepney Green. (more…) View the full article

News: Apple was named best design studio and best brand of the past 50 years at a special ceremony marking the 50th birthday of D&AD this week and Apple’s entire design team, including senior vice president of industrial design Jonathan Ive (above), flew to London to collect the awards. (more…) View the full article

Vienna Design Week: Spanish designer Martí Guixé presented an upmarket version of a box of wine at Sotheby’s in Vienna earlier this month. (more…) View the full article

A disused hospital building in Valencia explodes and shifts into new configurations in this series of manipulated photographs by Spanish studio espai MGR (+ slideshow + movie). (more…) View the full article

We're racing towards the end of our A-Zdvent calendar of houses, so in the first of three final posts today here's a house in Inner Mongolia, China, by Multiplicities that's named after its X-shaped central void. Read more about (X) » View the full article

The pared-down logos found on vintage Japanese cameras inspired Istanbul-based design consultancy Antrepo to create conceptual minimal logos for web brands like Facebook, Google and YouTube. (more...) View the full article

British fashion designer Gareth Pugh sent models down the runway in dresses made from strips of bin liners during his Paris Fashion Week show. (more...) View the full article