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Two weeks ahead of opening day, the Milan Expo is still a building site and designers say some pavilions may not be finished in time. (more…) View the full article

Twitter's headquarters in a 1937 San Francisco building features brightly coloured furniture, padded booths, games rooms and an enormous roof terrace (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Seoul architects studio_GAON designed this house in the Korean countryside for a couple who want to retire and grow walnuts (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

An exhibition at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands celebrates 100 years of universal voting rights in the country. Co-curator Egge Knol picks five objects that tell the story. Read more

London Design Festival: Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, Jasper Morrison and AL_A are among the designers who have created benches with British design brand Established & Sons for the central courtyard of the V&A museum (+slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Nearly a century of layered paint creates texture on walls throughout these offices for an advertising agency in North Carolina, which TPG Architecture created inside a former factory. Read more View the full article

Music: musician and director Kamiel Rongen mixed different liquids together in a fishbowl to create the surreal multicoloured landscapes in this music video. (more…) View the full article

Our new Pinterest board is dedicated to the best concrete houses, including a brutalist home set within Balinese rice fields and a temple-inspired house in northern Portugal. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›

Dutch firm Wiel Arets Architects has completed a water-traffic control centre in the town of Maasbracht with a curved glass upper storey that offers panoramic views over the surrounding waterways (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Nike is testing a host of tech-driven shopping features at a new store in Los Angeles, as part of the sports brand's major plans to "disrupt" retail. Read more View the full article

The Barcelona Pavilion as you've never seen it before: Spanish architect Andrés Jaque has filled Mies van der Rohe's iconic structure with junk from its basement (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Dutch office MVRDV has designed a completely see-through glass kitchen that aims to inspire a "more healthy, if not sexy" approach to food (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

In our latest competition, we're offering readers the chance to win an overnight stay for two at W London hotel in Leicester Square. Read more

In this week's comments update, readers are angered by designs proposed to replace Notre-Dame Cathedral's destroyed spire. Read more

British designer Lara Bohinc aimed to create objects of "future modernity" when producing this collection of relic-inspired lamps, which are made entirely from steel and Jesmonite. Read more View the full article

This Ukranian house by Azovskiy & Pahomova Architects features a staircase with cantilevered wooden treads, as well as a hay-bale seating area and glass-fronted shower in the living room (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Argentinian firm Adamo-Faiden has built a concrete tower in Buenos Aires, flanked on two sides by metal-grated walls that conceal dozens of private gardens. Read more

Canadian footwear brand Native Shoes has released a unisex sneaker made entirely from vegan-friendly materials including eucalyptus, pineapple husk and dried hevea milk. Read more

Swiss architect Rafael Schmid has overhauled his 1920s home in Zurich, pairing the property's original herringbone parquet flooring with more contemporary chipboard and mineral-based surfaces (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A faint pattern of cherry blossom petals decorates window screens and furniture inside this tea house in Japan by Hiroyuki Ogawa Architects. (more...) View the full article

Monks perform levitation over a huge wind tunnel at this amphitheatre, which was designed by Latvian studio Mailītis Architects for a mountain range in central China. Read more View the full article

Dutch Design Week: twenty-five designers set up their own production lines inside a former textile factory in the Netherlands last week, making furniture, lighting, clothes, shoes, food, paper and more with the help of visitors. (more…) View the full article

Dutch trend forecaster Li Edelkoort curated an exhibition drawing parallels between the Italian Memphis movement of the 1980s and contemporary South African design at Design Indaba Expo in Cape Town earlier this month. (more...) View the full article

We've just got back from Design Week Mexico, so we're spotlighting beautiful architecture projects from the country on our latest Pinterest board. Examples include a white crystalline church and a rammed-earth villa. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › View the full article

Books, records, plant pots and even shoes can be turned into musical instruments thanks to British designer Nick Brennan’s Sound Pegs device (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article