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New York startup Moonshine Crea's MoonWalker trainers use layers of magnets to replicate the feeling of walking in low-gravity environments. (more…) View the full article

Architect Terry Farrell has spoken out against Renzo Piano's 72-storey skyscraper proposed for London's Paddington and has drawn up a rival scheme. (more…) View the full article

News: a map that illustrates global forest densities using wood textures has won a competition to reinvent the tessellated world map designed 70 years ago by American architect and visionary designer R. Buckminster Fuller. (more...) View the full article

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Archi-Union Architects, Oppenheim Architecture + Design and Mikhail Riches, whose renovated nineteenth-century house in London is pictured. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Storefront for Art & Architecture, BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and more... (more…) View the full article

Black-painted timber contrasts with clean white window frames on the walls of this cube-shaped weekend home in Normandy, France, by Paris studio Beckmann-N'Thépé Architectes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Huge steel beams with I-shaped profiles were stacked to form the framework of this Tokyo house by Mount Fuji Architects Studio, which features a red spiral staircase winding between its floors (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of a new book full of stories from the furniture design industry, which includes a chapter about the story of Dezeen. (more...) View the full article

Ark4Lab of Architecture has used an assortment of red tones and clashing materials to create a "mosaic" of spaces inside this bar in northern Greece. Read more

Barcelona's city authority has granted the Antoni Gaudí-designed Sagrada Familia, which has been under construction since 1882, its first building permit. Read more

London Design Festival 2014: in this movie produced by Dezeen for Perrier-Jouët, glass artist Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert shows us the factory where the glass is being made for his upcoming installation at the V&A. (more...) View the full article

Hexagonal slate tiles cover this extension to a west London home designed by architects Christian Ducker and Tyeth Gundry to create a bright and spacious new kitchen (+ 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

Saudi Arabian office Shepherd Design Studio has reinterpreted the traditional Islamic prayer mat to make it more sustainable. Read more

News: Architectural Association graduate John Naylor has won this year's Foster + Partners Prize with his proposal to introduce bamboo to the construction industry in Haiti, which is still struggling to recover from the 2010 earthquake. (more...) View the full article

Gustaf Holtenäs based his animated video for Russian musician Mitya's track Fabula Spatium on surreal sci-fi art from the 1970s (+ movie). (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

New York City artist CJ Hendry has designed "a psych ward mimicked as a children's wonderland" for an art exhibit in Brooklyn's Dumbo neighbourhood. Read more

Stirling Prize-winner Haworth Tompkins has revamped a former warehouse to create rehearsal and office spaces for one of London's most important theatre companies (+ slideshow). (more…)

London studio Assemble has transformed an industrial property in New Orleans into a hub for the local community to learn fashion design and manufacturing. Read more

News: graphic designer Peter Saville is working on a visual identity for musician Kanye West. (more...) View the full article

Photo essay: French photographer Romain Veillon explored an abandoned town that is slowly being consumed by the Namib desert to create these images of once-opulent buildings filled with sand dunes. (more...) View the full article

Marking International Women's Day, design studio Muf has embarked on a project to transform a narrowboat into a touring cultural centre promoting contemporary female artists. (more…) View the full article

In our latest competition, we're offering three readers the chance to win a vintage-style helmet with vegan leather straps designed by Thousand and Poketo. Read more

A concrete room cantilevers over a swimming pool as part of this extension to a postwar property in Singapore by local office Formwerkz Architects. (more...) View the full article

We're all to blame for the gentrification of Erno Goldfinger's brutalist Balfron Tower, says Owen Hatherley, so stop getting angry at the architects. Read more