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London designer Benjamin Hubert has created a chair that looks like it's wrapped up in a cloak for Italian brand Moroso. (more...) View the full article

News: designers including Marti Guixè and Stefano Giovannoni will be among the teaching staff of a food design course being co-developed by one of Italy's leading design schools – an increasingly popular subject area for design education (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

This house for two retired lecturers in the Indonesian city of Salatiga was designed with multiple bamboo funnels on its roof to echo the area's mountainous topography (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

As advances in technology put space travel back on the agenda, we've rounded up some of the best interstellar design from the pages of Dezeen. (more…) View the full article

Vancouver studio Ste Marie has designed a cafe in the city wrapped in tiles as a riff on cosy, compact Spanish tapas bars. Read more

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

Maison & Objet 2015: British designer Tom Dixon's latest range of accessories includes copper stationery and containers with magnifying-glass lids. (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with graduate show New Designers to offer readers the chance to win one of five pairs of tickets to the event, taking place in London from 29 June to 9 July 2016 (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2013: Portuguese designer Susana Soares has developed a device for detecting cancer and other serious diseases using trained bees ( + slideshow). (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

Voluminous origami-influenced garments and headdresses featured in Japanese fashion designer Junya Watanabe's catwalk show during Paris Fashion Week. (more…) View the full article

News: Michael Graves' seminal Portland Public Services Building will be spared from demolition, despite being described as a "white elephant" and requiring an estimated $95 million for renovation. (more…) View the full article

Pheromones and aftershave are impregnated into these leather seats by Gigi Barker to evoke the sense of sitting on human flesh (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

British architecture firm Foster + Partners has revealed plans to build an 80-storey skyscraper that is set to become Canada's tallest habitable building. (more…)

Product news: French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have added three new colours to their Corniches shelves for Vitra. (more...) View the full article

News: Dubai has won the bid to host the World Expo 2020 with a masterplan by architects HOK, beating Zaha Hadid's rival proposal for a lagoon-side park in the Turkish city of Izmir (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Landscape architects McGregor Coxall has won a competition to design a wetland sanctuary in Tianjin, offering migrating birds a stopover to fatten up and breed. Read more View the full article

US firm Tres Birds Workshop has topped a Japanese restaurant in Denver, Colorado with a greenhouse featuring soil-free growing towers. Read more

Tokyo studio Yamazaki Kentaro Design Workshop created stepped levels inside this nursery in Japan's Chiba Prefecture to form a large, open space across the sloping site (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Steel triangles protruded from a waterfall in central France to intervene with the cascade of water in this installation by artist Laurent Gongora. (more...) View the full article

Music: directors Martin Lorenz and Martin Allais recreated Charles and Ray Eames' 1977 film exploring the scale of the universe for Barcelona-based band Storms' new music video. (more...) View the full article

Vibe Design Group has reinterpreted the traditional Australian beach house to create a timber and glass residence sheltered beneath a folded metal roof. Read 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

A slatted-timber gallery is raised above the porch of this woodland lodge near the shore of Lake Superior in Wisconsin (+ slideshow). (more…)