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Paper artist Marc Hagan-Guirey has recreated ten modernist buildings from folded and cut paper for his book Le Corbusier Paper Models: 10 Kirigami Buildings to Cut and Fold. Read more View the full article

Parisian furniture brand La Chance has unveiled a series of new additions to its collection, including a chunky bookcase and a side table that plays with perspective. Read more View the full article

Danish firm BIG looked to its own architecture when designing the modular Voxel sofa system for Common Seating, making seats out of gridded pixel-like blocks. Read more View the full article

Spanish-Italian designer Pablo Dorigo Sempere has extracted algae polluting the Venetian Lagoon and used it to make paper postage stamps for the Italian city. Read more View the full article

Austrian architect Chris Precht speaks to Dezeen in this live Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch the conversation live from 2pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Museums should use the disruption caused by coronavirus to fundamentally rethink how they operate and what their purpose is, says Owen Hopkins. Read more View the full article

London designer Adam Nathanial Furman's Democratic Monument is a proposal for town halls around the UK that would feature bright tiles and a diverse mix of architectural styles. Read more View the full article

Dezeen have got together with J Mayer H Architects to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of Arium – Weather and Architecture, edited by Jurgen Mayer H and Neeraj Bhatia. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre has sent us his photographs of the Cidade da Cultura de Galicia by Peter Eisenman, nearing completion in Galicia, Spain. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Manhattan studio RUX Design have won a competition to design a mosque for the UAE with their open-air plaza called The Vanishing Mosque. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This visitor centre by Danish architects EFFEKT will have a series of ramped green roofs and sit at the heart of the Hareskoven forest in Copenhagen. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Product design graduate Amila Hrustić of Bosnia and Herzegovina has created a collection of dresses embellished with clustered geometric shapes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swiss architects Group8 have completed this residential block covered in pink sun screens in Geneva. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stained glass panels perforate the exterior wall of this church in Paris by ENIA Architects, creating rectangles of colour on the interior of the double-height nave. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

When viewed from outside an Issey Miyake store in Tokyo, these chairs backs by Japanese architect Yoichi Yamamoto appear to have legs and seats. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Long, narrow windows cut across the sides of a house in Okayama, Japan, to reveal the locations of internal walls and floors. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Beijing Design Week 2011: London designer Paul Cocksedge installed giant pages of poetry made from rolled steel sheets outside the China Millennium Monument during Beijing Design Week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: in his latest article for the Evening Standard architecture and design critic Kieran Long describes a network of noiseless transport pods launched in September to carry passengers from Heathrow airport‘s business car park to Terminal 5 as “the future we were supposed to have.” Long says the £30 million Rapid Personal Transit system, created by transport specialists Ultra PRT and engineers Arup, offers a “brief but safe moment of isolation” and “is an expression of the minor psychological irritations of business travellers” but adds that the concept has potential to be applied in larger urban scenarios. See all of our transport stories including a self-dri…

The best escape route from a meeting at the Denmark office of toy brand Lego is down a metal slide. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A series of lamps, tables and storage made by New York designer Stephen Burks in collaboration with basket weavers in a village outside of Dakar is on show at the Design Exchange in Toronto. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dubstep producer Chris Underdown, aka M3llo, dropped in to Dezeen Sudio powered by Jambox at MOST today to show us some of his tracks. This one was our favourite. About Dezeen Music Project | More tracks | Submit your track View the full article

Five years ago Daniel Libeskind designed his first piece of commercial furniture, the Campana Brothers presented plastic garden furniture wrapped in wicker and Zaha Hadid recreated some of her buildings as three-dimensional wall art. (more…) View the full article

Warmer weather is beckoning us outdoors so our latest Pinterest board features all the best courtyards from the pages of Dezeen. We’ve got over 10,000 followers on Pinterest now and you can follow us here. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » See more stories featuring courtyards on Dezeen » View the full article

As the tides erode the northern coast of New Zealand, this house on a sled by architects Crosson Clarke Carnachan can be towed off the beach and out of harm’s way (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Little Printer, the web-connected gadget we featured earlier this year that prints out personalised messages, news, birthdays and to-do lists collected from the internet on a till-roll, is now going into production. (more…) View the full article