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Dutch studio Bloot Architecture has added a larch-clad roof extension to a 1950s summer house, featuring a glazed wall angled to frame views of the trees overhead (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

This week on Dezeen: discount supermarket Aldi triggered a debate about copyright laws in furniture design this week after it emerged the company was selling replica versions of a classic chair design by Ray and Charles Eames. (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of the inaugral issue of Material Futures, a new publication about textile research. (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2013: Swedish designer Alexander Lervik unveiled a chair made of wooden rods like a bed of nails in Stockholm last week. (more...) View the full article

This red brick building that once formed part of a cigarette factory in Brussels has been converted into a council office with minimalist interiors by Stéphanie Willocx, LD2 Architecture and Mamout. Read more View the full article

Design firm Yabu Pushelberg has completed a decadent hotel in New York's Times Square featuring lush green walls and a moody dining room with electric blue banquettes. Read more

Delicate beadwork, plant-stuffed plastic jackets and dangling threads flowed down the runway at Parsons School of Design's graduate show in New York this week, where collections with intricate details were among US reporter Bridget Cogley's highlights. Read more

Austrian studio Coop Himmelb(l)au has completed a faceted steel and angular glass building to house a natural history museum in Lyon, France (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Design firm Estudio Yeye used a limited palette of colours and materials to create a "simple and efficient" design for a cafe that serves up Mexican coffee. Read more

These shoes are 3D-printed using flexible, durable filament so they can be folded up and stuffed into a pocket or bag (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The latest Dezeen competition offers readers the chance to win a WW Armchair, part of the Colour Series created by Hayche and Brighton-based Studio Makgill. Read more View the full article

Finnish studio Feathr has launched its first wallpaper collection with designs by artists that specialise in disciplines such as surfwear design and body art. (more…) View the full article

Following the sad news that experimental architect and artist Lebbeus Woods passed away last week, here’s a look back at some of his early drawing projects from the 1980s. (more…) View the full article

News: supercar brand McLaren is exploring ways of developing shape-shifting "transformer" vehicles that morph from self-driving city cars to low-slung racers in the countryside, according to chief designer Robert Melville. (more…) View the full article

News: Berlin design fair Qubique has been postponed until 2013, the organisers have announced. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2013: Foster + Partners has designed a coffee table made by stretching a perforated disk of steel upwards to form a metal-mesh base. (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

Dezeen Watch Store: this chronograph version of the Record watch designed by Italian maestro Achille Castiglioni for Alessi now comes with a black nylon Nato strap. (more...) View the full article

Architecture practice Studio Ossidiana has reinterpreted traditional Persian carpets as a series of concrete pieces installed at this year's Dutch Design Week. Read more View the full article

Sou Fujimoto's newly unveiled Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (above, photographed by Iwan Baan) is the big news in this week's issue of Dezeen Mail, which also features all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 155 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Contenders for this year's Beazley Designs of the Year awards include Diller Scofidio + Renfro's The Shed, a pocket-sized home HIV test kit, and the world's first genderless voice. Read more

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

Brooklyn designer Eny Lee Parker's latest homeware includes a mirror that looks like "dripping pancake batter" and donut-like lamps. Read more

This week on Dezeen: sportswear brand Nike unveiled its Back to the Future-style shoes this week and Thomas Heatherwick's controversial Garden Bridge moved one step closer to reality despite calls for the project to be scrapped. (more…) View the full article

Here's a look at five significant projects by Spanish studio Bonell+Dòriga, which has won the Début Award for young architects at the Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2019. Read more View the full article