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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

London Design Festival: Dezeen is hosting a series of innovative daily live shows at 100% Design, continuing today at 5pm with London designers Dominic Wilcox (above) and Asif Khan, and curator and writer Daniel Charny. (more…) View the full article

This set of wooden toys by Polish studio Poorex incorporates tools associated with household chores. (more…) View the full article

A house-shaped metal frame surrounds the objects on these tall display tables by Kazakhstan designer Artem Zigert. (more…) View the full article

Here's a selection of our favourite Christmas cards and movies we've received this year, including this one by photographer Luke Hayes, taken in Sheffield, UK (above). (more...) View the full article

News: a major retrospective of the work of celebrated architect Le Corbusier is to open at the Museum of Modern Art in New York this June. (more...) View the full article

News: a fuel-efficient 3D-printed car is set to hit the road in two years, according to its US-based manufacturer RedEye On Demand. (more...) View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a product designer at food brand Nestlé, makers of the Kit Kat chocolate bar. See more stories about chocolate on Dezeen here. Visit the ad for full details or browse many other architecture and design job opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

This concrete staircase into the air by Lisbon architecture studio Ateliermob functions as a riverside amphitheatre on the banks of the Tagus in central Portugal (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A library pavilion covered in galvanised steel scales has been constructed next to the Singapore University of Technology and Design (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Following the success of our digital map-based guides to London Design Festival 2012 and Milan Design Week 2013, we're creating an even better version for this year's LDF - so if you're exhibiting or organising an event and want to be included FREE, drop us a line! (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Belgian design studio Unfold to give readers the chance to win one of five copies of a new book exploring the potential of 3D printing. (more…) View the full article

Models at a Norwegian fashion event walked along this looping wooden catwalk designed by Oslo studio Gartnerfuglen Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A cluster of five gabled cabins make up this summer retreat in northern Denmark by architects Powerhouse Company (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

This smartphone-controlled thermostat by French designer Philippe Starck can regulate itself by tracking residents' activities. (more...) View the full article

Dutch architecture studio Inbo has completed a transparent house in the Netherlands and has hidden it behind a grove of trees to protect the privacy of its residents (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article