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News: a storage rail based on a traditional Shaker-style peg board, a scaly room divider and a magnetic lamp were revealed as the winners of the [D3] Contest for young designers at the imm cologne trade fair today. (more...) View the full article

Tel Aviv brand Iota will make its Milan Design Week debut next month with a collection of petal-like poufs, stools and rugs crocheted from bespoke yarns. Read more View the full article

Montreal-based designers St Ely have created a sofa made up of three interchangeable modules with sliced-off corners. (more…) View the full article

Beijing Design Week: British photographer John Short and design studio Praline created these “audio explosions” by scattering colour pigments using different sound frequencies (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Large inflatable bubbles, a car made out of Rimowa suitcases and a mirrored pavilion were among the installations that were tagged using our #milanogram2019 hashtag during this year's Milan design week. Read more

Belgian firm Urbain Architectencollectief has refurbished a former brick fire station building and added an extra storey to house additional facilities for a cultural centre in the city of Kortrijk (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Dutch studio NEXT architects has won a competition to design a pedestrian bridge for Changsha, China, with plans for a wavy structure based on the continuous form of a Möbius strip. (more...) View the full article

In April, Apple courted the design world by presenting the Apple Watch at a pavilion in Milan and holding a glamorous dinner for leading designers. So what do designers think of the product now – and why are so few of them wearing it? Dezeen investigates. (more…) View the full article

This year's Chicago Architecture Biennial will ask architects to consider history in order to shape a direction for future architectural practice, say artistic directors Johnston Marklee. Read more View the full article

News: construction will begin next year on Africa's tallest building – a 540-metre-high skyscraper in Morocco. (more…) View the full article

News: most UK-based employers and students believe architecture graduates are not prepared for the realities of working in practice, according to an industry survey. (more…) View the full article

Transport design was hot news five years ago: architect Zaha Hadid unveiled a three-wheeled concept vehicle (above) while Boeing launched the revolutionary Dreamliner jet and Fiat revamped the much-loved Fiat 500 (below). (more…) View the full article

News: two British entrepreneurs are constructing a hydroponic farm in a network of tunnels under south London that could supply local restaurants and retailers with fresh herbs and vegetables. (more...) View the full article

London designer Mathias Hahn added concrete, brass and metal to these coloured glass vessels, which are inspired by making jam. (more...) View the full article

Berlin and Shanghai-based studio Playze stacked up perforated shipping containers to create offices for an organic farm in Shanghai, China (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A collection of lights by Studio Wieki Somers inspired by Japanese forms including sixteenth-century Samurai flags and the fabric worn by geishas is on show at Galerie Kreo in Paris (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Pale grey bricks are arranged to create a herringbone pattern across the facade of this housing and studio block in New Cross, southeast London. (more…) View the full article

Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a creative director at online design retail store Fab, whose range of products includes ceramics by El-AICH Designs (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

A prominent art dealer has turned an estate once owned by infamous drug baron Pablo Escobar into luxury accommodation filled with items from his collection. Read more View the full article

Milan 2014: British designer Ross Lovegrove has created an aluminium stacking chair for Italian furniture brand Moroso. (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2015: furniture giant Ikea has collaborated with London designer Ilse Crawford to launch a range of cork and natural-fibre homeware products. (more…) View the full article

Product news: Australian designers Nicholas Karlovasitis and Sarah Gibson have added dining and coffee tables to their range of timber stools with metal collars at the tops of their legs. (more...) View the full article

The Natural History Museum in London has won planning permission for a major upgrade of its entrance areas, designed by Niall McLaughlin Architects and landscape firm Kim Wilkie (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos has converted three houses within the walls of a 15th-century castle in the foothills of Spain's Sierra de Gredos into a pair of brightly lit homes for a brother and sister. Read more View the full article

Timber slats cover the angular facades and roof of this community centre in the Bordeaux suburb of Pessac by local studio Gayet-Roger Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article