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This coffee maker brews an espresso inside a microwave in 30 seconds. (more...) View the full article

Italian studio Park Associati has overhauled a 1960s office block in Milan and added new glass and burnished aluminium facades (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Manhattan-based firm SHoP Architects has sent us a movie and more images illustrating its masterplan for Konza Techno City, a new "silicon" city 40 miles from Kenya's capital Nairobi (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

British graphic designer Peter Saville references stripy hazard signs in the artwork for the latest album by experimental pop group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. (more...) View the full article

News: Foster + Partners is exploring the possibilities of 3D printing buildings on the moon using lunar soil. (more...) View the full article

A Tokyo townhouse fronted by a stack of gardens (above) and a conceptual extension to the Guggenheim Museum in New York lead Dezeen Mail issue 137, which also features the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 137 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Opinion: in this week's column, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs wonders why London's Design Museum is so reluctant to talk about money, arguing that design classics "aren't theoretical exercises but sophisticated appeals to the wallet." (more...) View the full article

News: five buildings have been shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, the Mies van der Rohe Award 2013, including a nursing home in Portugal (above) and the Harpa Concert and Conference Centre in Iceland. (more...) View the full article

Competition: it's coming up to Valentine's day so we're giving readers the chance to win one of ten packs of Little Romance paperclips by London designer Lee Washington. (more...) View the full article

This stark concrete house in Spain by Alcolea+Tárrago Arquitectos features richly stained timber shutters that fold back to reveal large glass doors (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: an exhibition of the Design Museum's permanent collection has opened at the museum in London. (more...) View the full article

Korean architects AND imagined this hotel on Geoje Island as a hand of outstretched fingers, with rooms and balconies pointing out in different directions (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Troika founding partner Eva Rucki explains the studio's large-scale immersive light installations in this movie filmed by Dezeen at our Designed in Hackney Day. (more...) View the full article

News: American brand Emeco has reached a settlement in its legal dispute with Restoration Hardware after claiming the fellow US company's Naval Chair (below) is a rip-off of its classic Navy Chair (above). (more...) View the full article

Brazilian firm Studio Arthur Casas has clothed a family house in São Paulo in a shimmering layer of perforated golden metal. (more...) View the full article

News: a major retrospective of the work of celebrated architect Le Corbusier is to open at the Museum of Modern Art in New York this June. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Déjà Vu is the second new watch by Italian designer Denis Guidone for American brand Projects, now available at Dezeen Watch Store. (more...) View the full article

Maison&Objet 2013: French designer Benjamin Graindorge has created a series of vases with tops that loop over the flowers to frame them. (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

Maison&Objet 2013: Swedish designer Mattias Ståhlbom of TAF has created an uplighter for Danish brand Muuto that can be adjusted by rotating the shade. (more...) View the full article

A perforated plastic skin casts spotty shadow patterns onto the facade of this office building in Albacete, Spain, by Cor & Asociados (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch graphic designer Jacques Le Bailly has designed a typeface of impossible shapes inspired by the optical trickery of artist M.C. Escher (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: Danish design studio KiBiSi used a compound of stone and resin to produce these candle holders for Danish design brand Menu (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The world's largest underwater hotel is being planned for Dubai, with rooms both on the seabed and on stilts above the surface. (more...) View the full article

A row of colourful louvres wraps around classrooms and playgrounds at this concrete kindergarten near Pamplona in Spain (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article