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An elevator that facilitates awkwardness and an urban-farming capsule hotel are among the projects presented in this Virtual Design Festival school show by interior design graduates from New York's Pratt Institute. Read more View the full article

Students from the Pratt Institute in New York have created a series of home products and accessories designed to help those suffering from memory loss caused by Alzheimer's disease. Read more View the full article

The rooms of this house near Seoul by local architecture office Praud are contained within a slanted box that rises above the mountainous landscape (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A wave-like wooden ceiling undulates above the heads of students at this chapel by architects Gensler in the basement of a Los Angeles university. (more…) View the full article

CEBRA has completed a cave-like prayer centre in Abu Dhabi housed in a landscape of jagged, rock-like forms. Read more View the full article

Several windows splay from one end of this weathering steel church, designed by Vicens + Ramos as the centrepiece for a growing residential community near Madrid (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This tiny aluminium-clad cabin by Slovenian studio OFIS Arhitekti cantilevers over the edge of a mountain on the Slovenian-Italian border. Read more View the full article

Grey upholstery helped architecture studio Precht bring a "human touch" to the interior of this data office in Beijing, which features black walls and white zigzag desks. Read more View the full article

Precht – the architecture studio of Penda co-founders Frei and Chris Precht – has developed a concept for modular housing where residents would produce their own food in vertical farms. Read more

Dutch Design Week 2013: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Dave Hakkens has made his own machines for recycling plastic to make new products locally and plans to share the designs so others around the world can do the same. (more...) View the full article

Our latest captioned movie features modular structures designed by Ten Fold Engineering, which can be transported anywhere on a lorry and self-deployed at the touch of a button. Watch more one-minute movies › View the full article

This prefabricated family home in Princeton, New Jersey, by local architect Marina Rubina was conceived as an "experiment" in providing a high-quality residence that is sustainable and affordable (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architect Alejandro Soffia pieced together a series of modules and covered them in bright yellow corrugated panels to form this prefabricated woodland residence in Pucón, Chile. Read more

This prototype house overlooking Lake Maggiore was designed by Nicole Lachelle and Christian Niessen to demonstrate the capabilities of prefabricated wood construction, and features charred-timber facades enclosing a bright-white interior. Read more View the full article

Inside this wooden, prefabricated house in Amsterdam by Marc Koehler Architects, an angular black staircase crisscrosses between split levels. Read more View the full article

Modular buildings specialist ArchiBlox has unveiled its prototype for a compact carbon-positive house, featuring "edible garden walls", a sunroom and an insulating grass roof (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

What if you could ship your house to anywhere in the world? Our latest Pinterest board is dedicated to houses that are built in a factory and assembled in far-flung locations, such as a remote Finnish island or a Brazilian mountain landscape. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more prefabricated buildings in our archive View the full article

Architecture collective MAPA of Brazil and Uruguay has built a prefabricated modular home and transported it by lorry to a picturesque spot in the countryside outside Porto Alegre (photos by Leonardo Finotti + slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Photographer Fernando Guerra has sent us his photos of this prefabricated house in Cedeira, Spain, by Madrid studio MYCC. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects Eduard Balcells, Ignasi Rius and Daniel Tigges have designed a wood-clad concrete kindergarten for the El Tiller Waldorf-Steiner School in Bellaterra, Spain. Read more

Dezeen promotion: a 9,000-year-old axe imprints the dark concrete panels that clad this storage and research centre for the Tyrolean State Museum in Austria, designed by architecture studio Franz&Sue. Read more View the full article

Nine designers including Florian Hauswirth, Kaspar Hamacher and Max Lipsey furnished a grain-silo-turned-art-space in Basel in a five-day experimental workshop. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Berlin architect and designer Sophie von Bülow knocked through walls between two residences to create this spacious apartment in her home city (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

To get you in the mood for Valentine's Day we've created a new Pinterest board showcasing romantic restaurants. Venues featured include an elegant eatery inside New York's museum Fotografiska and a dining space in Venice decorated with decadent furnishings. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest or visit our updated board to see more. Read more View the full article

New York firm Present Architecture has overhauled and restored the interiors of a mixed-used building in Portland, Maine, which was damaged by a fire and subsequently left vacant. Read more View the full article