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Milan 2013: wingback armchairs by Spanish designer Jaime Hayón for Danish brand Republic of Fritz Hansen were unveiled in Milan earlier this month (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has named its top ten sustainable projects of the year, including a university building made from timber, concrete and Corten steel in Minnesota (above) and a series of prefabricated houses in Tennessee. (more...) View the full article

A timber lattice supports shelves, worktops, lighting and mirrors down one side of this beauty salon in Osaka by Japanese designer Yasunari Tsukada (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This outdoor urinal by French design studio Faltazi slots into a straw bale to recycle pee from festivalgoers into compost. (more...) View the full article

The ground floor of Dezeen's north London office The Surgery has been transformed into a walk-in watch shop by local studio Post-Office (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Norman Foster is the only architect to appear on this year's list of Britain's 2000 wealthiest people, published by The Sunday Times. (more...) View the full article

Hackney artist Alex Chinneck has created a wall that melts in the sun as part of his research for a project to build a melting house. (more...) View the full article

News: Zaha Hadid was named businesswoman of the year at the Veuve Clicquot awards in London last night. (more...) View the full article

New York fashion designer Aina Beck experimented with foil printing to create the dappled metallic patterns in her latest capsule collection. (more...) View the full article

3Gatti Architecture Studio will add a facade of opening and closing steel umbrellas to Foreign Office Architects' Madrid Pavilion from the 2010 Shanghai Expo (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: London design duo Raw Edges came up with a bookcase shaped like a weaving loom to display novels by young British writers. (more...) View the full article

Australian architect Andrew Burns has installed a charred timber pavilion with deceptively curved walls in the garden of the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation in Paddington, Sydney (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in this movie filmed in Milan earlier this month, leading designers and manufacturers discuss the phenomenon of copying and how they are responding. "It’s become an increasingly big problem for us," says Tom Dixon. "People can steal ideas and produce them almost faster than we can now." (more...) View the full article

News: London firm Grimshaw has submitted plans for a 90-storey skyscraper in a suburb of Sydney, Australia. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: a collection of furniture designed by Konstantin Grcic for Herzog & de Meuron's Parrish Art Museum in Long Island has gone into production with American brand Emeco. (more...) View the full article

With a terrace sheltered beneath its overhanging eaves, this building by Japanese architects Kakuro Odagi and Daisuke Narushima functions as an information centre for prefabricated show homes in Yokohama (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: American architect Rick Mather, whose projects included the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, UK, and the masterplan for London's Southbank, has died aged 75. (more...) View the full article

Haute couture garments by Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen will be displayed at an exhibition of her work in Calais, France, from June. (more...) View the full article

This timber-clad house extension in Norway by Oslo studio Rever & Drage features curvy towers that point outwards like periscopes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Stockholm design studio PJADAD used tiny cubes and chunks of food to create this miniature landscape as a visual identity for the Swedish Atelier Food project and restaurant. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2o13: Dutch brand Moooi presented their Unexpected Welcome collection among giant portraits and undressed manequins in Milan's Tortona district last week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: Italian architect Carlo Ratti and his team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology installed three robotic bartenders in Milan last week (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

This cabin covered in hand-painted patterns by Hackney architects Studio Weave provides a colourful art studio, bird-watching hide and rain shelter in a woodland park in Kent, England (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Fetishistic suits of armour, orthopaedic braces and wearable tusks all feature in an exhibition of prosthetics at the SHOWcabinet space in London (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Revellers at this year's Coachella festival in California can visit a silent disco inside a dome of colour-changing balls by Spanish designer Héctor Serrano (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article