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The protruding entrance lobby of this Tokyo house has a seamless frosted facade that glows with diffused light. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designed in Hackney: we’re stepping into the fashion world for Designed in Hackney this week so every day we’ll be showcasing fashion designers who are based in the borough. We start with Gareth Pugh‘s sculptural designs for new ballet Carbon Life, which had its premier at the Royal Opera House last month. (more…) View the full article

One year ago a lot of architecture and design seemed to be centred around love and sex, as we featured a coin-operated wedding machine, a mask for clamping mouths together and a couple of architectural installations that resembled parts of the female anatomy. (more…) View the full article

Folding steel shutters and bullet-proof glass protect the new reception of the Belgian Embassy in Athens by Buerger Katsota Architects. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen filmed a series of interviews with Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic about 59 objects from their collection for the Design Museum Collection App for iPad, which is available to download free from the app store here. (more…) View the full article

Architects Spark have added a stairwell resembling a giant wedge of Swiss cheese onto two Bangkok shophouses they’ve converted into a youth centre. (more…) View the full article

News: a range of drinking glasses, jugs and vases incorporating dye that generates electricity from sunlight by Marjan van Aubel has won the DOEN Materiaalprijs at Dutch Design Week (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of Generative Design, a book about using computer processing to design artwork, models and animations. (more…) View the full article

German designer Clemens Weisshaar argues that cutting edge software from race car engineering and hypersonic aircraft will underpin design in the future in this movie filmed at Dezeen Live during 100% Design. (more...) View the full article

London firm Alison Brooks Architects used dark-stained timber and sloping rooftops to reinterpret the rural architecture of Essex for this suburban housing development (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of a book about the Golden Lion-winning Torre David project presented at last year's Venice Architecture Biennale. (more...) View the full article

Architecture firm Haworth Tompkins has installed a bright red auditorium amongst the brutalist concrete of London's National Theatre (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Our latest Pinterest board brings together all of the Japanese houses we've featured on Dezeen over the last six years. See all the projects » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » View the full article

Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win a copy of trend forecaster Li Edelkoort's new book exploring fetishism in fashion. (more...) View the full article

Architecture studio Sevil Peach has overhauled a house once owned by Victorian painter and illustrator Frederick Barnard to create an artist's residence boasting period features and a patio-side bathtub. (more…) View the full article

Architect Alison Brooks talks about how residents come together in the streets of her firm's Be housing project in Essex, UK, in this movie produced by Living Projects. (more...) View the full article

Maison&Objet 2015: light from this table lamp by Cuban designer René Barba is diffused by a lollipop-shaped envelope made from a non-woven fabric. (more…) View the full article

These magnetic headphone jacks by New York designer Jon Patterson split in two when tugged to prevent damaging devices when wires get snagged (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Curved elements attach under the legs of this wooden bench by Italian designer Andrea Rekalidis to turn it into a see-saw (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a call for artists at Foster + Partners, whose design for the new Apple Campus 2 is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Stockholm 2015: furniture design students from Helsinki's Aalto University have used blue-coloured plywood and black tubular steel to form sculptural chair prototypes. (more…) View the full article

Glass floors allow residents to look down from a dining table into a toilet inside this windowless concrete house in Shanghai by Chinese firm Atelier FCJZ (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Paris studio Atelier Zündel Cristea has added a glass-walled extension that projects from the rear of this hundred-year-old house in the Vincennes suburb (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Zaha Hadid has completed a Hong Kong boutique for Stuart Weitzman - her latest sinuous store interior for the American footwear designer. (more...) View the full article

News: architect and Pritzker Prize laureate Hans Hollein has died in Vienna at the age of 80 after a long illness. (more...) View the full article