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News: a team made up of architecture firms OMA, Hassell and Populous has been selected to redevelop Sydney’s convention, exhibition and entertainment precinct at Darling Harbour (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: Alex Moulton, the British engineer and designer best known for inventing the small-wheeled Moulton bicycle and the rubber suspension system for the Mini car, has died aged 92. (more…) View the full article

Product news: Japanese studio Nendo has designed a collection of furniture with components that look like they’re peeled away from wooden stems (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A small courtyard separates a design studio from an exhibition gallery at this former launderette that architecture collaborative MAIO has converted in Barcelona (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

French architects JKA and design studio FUGA have converted a nineteenth century Alpine farmhouse in France into a holiday villa with chunky wooden cladding and cut-outs based on the shadows of other buildings (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This house in Tokyo with one tall skinny wing and one short fat one is at number eleven in our A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about House K » View the full article

In the next movie we filmed during Dezeen Live at 100% Design, designer Asif Khan explains how soap bubbles, rubbish bins and a neighbour’s flower bed have all provided inspiration for his work. (more…) View the full article

Latvian designer Anna Butele used fluorescent paint and marker pens to write inspirational messages across the walls at the new office of her interior design firm Annvil in Riga (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Interview: recently Dezeen met up with Dennis Paphitis, founder of skincare brand Aesop. In this exclusive interview he explains why no two stores are of the same design, why he enjoys working with different architects around the world and how he believes “there’s a direct correlation between interesting, captivating store spaces and customer traffic within a store” (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Design Miami: French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance has launched a white variation of his leaf-like LED lighting, which fades and flickers like dappled light coming through trees. (more…) View the full article

News: six international teams, including Herzog & de Meuron, SANAA and Renzo Piano, have been shortlisted to design a new visual culture museum in Hong Kong’s new West Kowloon Cultural District, while two Hong Kong-born architects have been chosen to design a centre for Chinese opera (above) in the same area. (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Faye Toogood (above), UNStudio and COS, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Foster + Partners, David Collins Studio and more… (more…) View the full article

French studio Avenier & Cornejo Architectes has used strips of cedar cladding to wrap every surface of this house in Orsay, France (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

We’re into double figures on our A-Zdvent calendar and at number ten is J House in Japan, which features rooms that open out to one another. Read more about J House » View the full article

Design Miami: New York studio Snarkitecture have hidden the Design Miami collectors fair behind a facade of inflatable sausages (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Triangular roof lights step up the side of this terrace of houses built on a former industrial site in north London. (more…) View the full article

News: the 3D printing revolution could be hampered by copyright claims and legal challenges as the emerging technology matures, an expert has warned. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Book of Ideas has been featured in the Observer’s Christmas Gift Guide, with the newspaper describing the book as “brilliant designs from the world’s best creative minds”. (more…) View the full article

Random snippets of news headlines are harvested from the internet, muddled up and printed using a traditional wooden letterpress in this movie by the Out of Print team. (more…) View the full article

Made up of a series of interconnecting boxes, this house surrounded by car parks in Japan is the latest addition to our A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about House I » View the full article

These plates made of tightly-packed soil were produced by Japanese design collective Bril (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Icelandic designer Katrin Olina describes how she translates characters from her imagination into drawings, animations, products and interiors in this movie we filmed at Dezeen Live at 100% Design. (more…) View the full article

Design Miami: London designer Asif Khan used Swarovski crystals to recreate an ice halo – an atmospheric effect most often seen in freezing northern climates – in this installation in the sub-tropical heat of Miami (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A contemporary interpretation of a traditional gabled farmhouse in Hungary is the letter H in our A-Zdvent calendar of houses named with letters. Read more about H House » View the full article

The death of celebrated Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer this week has prompted a string of tributes from readers, while British architect Norman Foster declared him a hero and we looked back at some of his projects from around Brazil, including his career-defining Church of Saint Francis of Assisi (above). As usual, we’ve also chosen our track of the week from Dezeen Music Project. (more…) View the full article