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Two-in-one dresses that transform with a single tug were shown as part of London-based fashion designer Hussein Chalayan's Autumn Winter 2013 collection at Paris Fashion Week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Slideshow feature: Zaha Hadid's Sheikh Zayed Bridge in Abu Dhabi is pictured in these new images by London photographers Hufton+Crow (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: this doorstop by Belgian designer Cas Moor is shaped like a tiny bird. (more...) View the full article

Clothes printed with artist Richard Woods' woodgrain graphics featured in this week's Spring Summer 2014 show by London fashion studio Sibling. (more...) View the full article

Japanese firm Horibe Associates has completed this combined home and dog-grooming salon in Japan's Ōita prefecture (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2015: Swedish designer David Ericsson has created a lightweight chair in solid beech – his "all-time favourite wood" – for furniture brand Gärsnäs. (more…) View the full article

This week architect Rafael Viñoly has been in the spotlight as his curved Walkie Talkie skyscraper in London was renamed the Walkie Scorchie, for focusing a beam of sunlight strong enough to melt cars onto a neighbouring street. Scroll on for more architecture and design news plus Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

News: Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki has gathered a throng of designers including Toyo Ito, Sou Fujimoto, Kengo Kuma and Riken Yamamoto to oppose the design of Zaha Hadid's 2020 Olympic Stadium in Tokyo. (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

This symmetrical concrete house by Chilean studio Pezo Von Ellrichshausen is the first in a series of 12 holiday homes underway in the Spanish canton of Matarraña and will be followed by others designed by Sou Fujimoto, Didier Faustino and more (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Foster + Partners, PriestmanGoode and MAD Architects, whose design for an art museum on Chicago's lakefront is pictured. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Duggan Morris, Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group, the V&A and more... (more…) View the full article

This house in Montreal by Canadian studio naturehumaine has a facade of dark brickwork, while its rear elevation is clad with steel panels that are divided into separate black and white sections (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The cylindrical shape of this university building on the outskirts of Dutch town Wageningen is designed by BDG Architects to optimise the usable floor space inside and reduce energy loss through the facade (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A tactile watch designed for blind people by a group of students has gone into production after strong demand from sighted consumers (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: an exhibition of Austrian design was presented at the Rotonda della Besana in Milan earlier this month by Advantage Austria (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

New York 2014: California design brand Sabi has collaborated with London-based MAP Project Office to create a collection of wall storage products for the bathroom. (more...) View the full article

Glazed voids run up the sides and over the roof of this concrete house by South Korean studio AND, giving each room its own enclosed patio and increasing the flow of light inside (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Feature: narrow homes have become increasingly popular in Japan, but can these awkwardly shaped residences offer housing solutions to other cities around the world, asks Dezeen deputy editor Amy Frearson. (more...) View the full article

Studiomama has converted the upper floors of a 300 year-old building in Stockholm's medieval old town to create a pair of 200-metre-square apartments with built-in wooden fittings (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: construction has started in Chengdu, China, on a 468-metre-high crystalline skyscraper by the architects behind the current and future tallest buildings in the world. (more...) View the full article

News: waterfalls, rainbow-coloured latticework and bright red cycle lanes feature among proposals for a new bridge across London's River Thames to rival Thomas Heatherwick's Garden Bridge (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Comments update: trend forecaster Li Edelkoort's declaration of the death of fashion led the debate this week. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2015: architect David Adjaye is launching an Art Deco-influenced seating range for Moroso at the Salone del Mobile furniture fair, which opens today. (more…) View the full article

Architect Joris Verhoeven chose hand-moulded bricks for the walls of this asymmetric gabled house in the Dutch village of Riel (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

French architecture studio Urbane Kultur has refurbished and extended this dome-shaped swimming pool just outside Strasbourg, which is one of nearly 200 built around France in the 1970s (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article