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This boutique interior by Brazilian architect Guilherme de Vasconcelos features a red faceted wall that references the angular qualities of polished gems (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Lighting brand FontanaArte has been sold to a private finance company, continuing the consolidation of the Italian furniture industry. Read more View the full article

Pointed doorways and openings throughout this house in Kyoto, Japan, were designed by Alts Design Office to mimic the building's gabled profile (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

These portraits of electronic musicians and DJs by Spanish illustrator and designer Alex Trochut show one image during the day and another at night. (more...) View the full article

These models of New York's Twin Towers by Rolf Bruggink can be stacked to create a pair of columnar lanterns or collapsed to form stools (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Snøhetta has completed Under, the "world's largest underwater restaurant", which plunges from a craggy shoreline in the remote village of Båly, Norway. Read more

This house in rural New York state by Anmahian Winton Architects is made up of timber-clad volumes that project from a hillside towards views of the surrounding forest (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Music: animator Anna Ginsburg has designed a psychedelic cast of colourful helmeted characters for Scottish musician Steve Mason's Planet Sizes music video. (more…) View the full article

Canadian footwear brand Native Shoes has released a unisex sneaker made entirely from vegan-friendly materials including eucalyptus, pineapple husk and dried hevea milk. Read more

News: experimental architect and artist Lebbeus Woods has died at the age of 72. (more…) View the full article

French artists Christophe Berdaguer and Marie Péjus have converted an old house in France into a visitor centre by giving it a ghostly cloak of polystyrene and paint. (more…) View the full article

This Vancouver house by Canadian studio Splyce Design comprises a stack of glazed boxes set into a hillside, designed to maximise ocean views and create terraces on all three levels (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This trio of mammoth timber funnels is designed to magnify the natural sounds of a forest in southern Estonia, and to double up as a space for ramblers to contemplate and rest. (more…) View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is an architectural position with artist Tomás Saraceno at his studio in Berlin. Tomás Saraceno's work includes On The Roof: Cloud City (shown above) that was installed at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art last year. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs here. View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Offer Canfi has envisioned a future for cycling in which inductive bicycle lanes could be used to wirelessly charge electric bikes and other devices on the go. (more...) View the full article

Design Miami/Basel 2015: a blackened-wood structure by Seattle studio Olson Kundig Architects houses the VIP lounge at this year's Design Miami/Basel fair (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

These rectangular shoes by student designer Maria Nina Vaclavek play on the contrast between geometric forms and the curving shape of the wearers feet (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2016: with this year's London Design Festival less than a month away, Dezeen's Alice Morby selects her pick of the best installations and exhibitions that will be taking place across the capital. (more…) View the full article

Scientists have created Atomik, a bottle of artisan vodka made from rye grown on land in Ukraine abandoned since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, to prove that it's safe to farm. Read more

This week on Dezeen our most popular story has been a series of illustrations featuring houses based on works by famous artists including Roy Lichtenstein, Damien Hirst and Marcel Duchamp. Read on for more architecture and design highlights from the past seven days plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

The Vessel by Heatherwick Studio and Safdie Architects' Jewel Changi Airport are among the buildings in the running to be named World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival. Read more

Note Design Studio has installed geometric totem poles inside a historic Milanese building to showcase the potential of Tarkett's IQ Surface, a new material that can be continuously recycled. Read more

Following the popularity of a collection of mass-produced glass items reformed into sculptural vessels this week, we've collected together glassware projects from the pages of Dezeen, including a curvaceous wine bottle by Zaha Hadid and pill-like vases by Fabio Novembre. See our new Pinterest board » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See all our glassware stories View the full article

Our US job of the week on the new and improved Dezeen Jobs website is for a dean at Woodbury University's School of Architecture in Burbank California, where facilities include the Julius Shulman building (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Spanish designer Nacho Carbonell has extended his series of lights swathed in metal mesh, which Carpenters Workshop Gallery will present at The Armory Show art fair in New York this week. Read more View the full article