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Swedish company Re:newcell is aiming to disrupt the fashion industry and save natural resources by creating garments from Circulose – a new material made from recycled cotton clothes. Read more View the full article

Steven Holl responds to the critics that blasted his controversial extension to Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art, saying that adhering to their comments would have "ruined the design", in this series of movies about the building. (more...) View the full article

Guests can flick through a curated selection of contemporary publications in this Beijing hotel, which Office AIO has finished with minimal greyscale interiors. Read more View the full article

Belgian architects Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh have completed a see-through church in Limburg, Belgium. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture practice Thomas-McBrien extended a London house, adding a oak-lined reading nook and a utility room hidden behind a secret door along with a kitchen and dining space. Read more View the full article

German designer Peter Böckel will present this combined book shelf and lamp at DMY Berlin this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Product news: French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have come up with a DIY kit for making curtains using a hanging cord that winds up like a guitar string. (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2015: an exhibition at London's Ace Hotel in Shoreditch includes stackable stools, cast concrete lights and copper cone-shaped ashtrays that were all designed for the venue (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The "temporary city" of Burning Man has risen once again from the desert foundations of Black Rock City for its 2019 edition. Explore the community-driven music event with our updated Pinterest boards, featuring timber installations and ornate pavilions. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › Read more

Austrian architects Sandra Janser and Elisabeth Koller have painted streets in Graz, Austria to resemble a running track as part of a regeneration project (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: Zanotta has released an updated model of the skeletal Reale table by Italian architect, designer and photographer Carlo Mollino. Read more View the full article

Sportswear brand Reebok has launched a range of running shoes that shrink to fit the wearer's foot when heated with a hairdryer. (more...) View the full article

Clothes are displayed on precariously balanced tables at this Tokyo boutique designed by Tokujin Yoshioka for fashion label Issey Miyake (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

These wearable devices by designer Ling Tan cause unpleasant sensations when the wearer becomes inactive or stops concentrating (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Glasgow School of Art has been destroyed beyond repair, say experts, with the costs of rebuilding estimated at more than £100 million. Read more View the full article

These pens by London designers Yuri Suzuki and Oscar Diaz can record sound as a line on paper and then play it back. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London design consultancy BERG have proposed a redesign of the standard till receipt, transforming the usually dull printout with infographics about purchases. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Large windows provide glimpses of a pair of swimming pools and a maroon sports court within this corrugated metal community centre by ACXT, located in Spain's Basque Country (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: British architects are experiencing the first annual increase in their workload since 2009, according to the Royal Institute of British Architects. (more...) View the full article

Dutch designers Tjep. have reduced part of a mass produced Ikea chair to a skeletal form to evoke the receding state of the global economy. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Old gas containers double-up as table legs and plant pots within this office, which architecture practice Waterform Design has created for a company based in the Taiwanese city of Taoyuan. Read more View the full article

Old doors and windows, antique wooden columns and metal drainpipes give this house in Mumbai an aesthetic its architects claim is inspired by the ramshackle buildings found throughout the city (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This captioned movie shows a shape-shifting wheel created by DARPA and Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Centre. Read more View the full article

The homes of 27,000 Palestinian refugees will be replaced as part of this reconstruction project underway at Nahr el-Bared, 16 kilometres outside of Tripoli, Lebanon (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Budapest architects MARP have replaced the missing corner of a ruined Renaissance palace with a Corten steel lookout point. (more…) View the full article