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Architecture and design studio HRC Design Works has transformed an ageing warehouse beside the HuangPu River in Shanghai into a leisure and shopping destination with a plant-covered cafe and a cave-like shoe store. (more…) View the full article

This may look like a pair of barns in a field, but its actually the new home that Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron has completed for the Parrish Art Museum on Long Island (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: Spanish design brand BD Barcelona Design has commissioned designer Jaime Hayon to hand-paint 40 unique vases in celebration of its 40th birthday. (more…) View the full article

A museum of contemporary art designed by Zaha Hadid for Michigan State University opened to the public this weekend (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Designer Magnus Pettersen talks about his Locker side table and how he was attracted to east London because it has a “good vibe for any creative industry” in this movie filmed by Dezeen. (more…) View the full article

Architecture studio Neri&Hu has opened a design gallery, shop and event space in a former colonial police station in Shanghai’s Jingan district. (more…) View the full article

Buro Ole Scheeren has unveiled a pair of skyscrapers with concave walls for Singapore’s historic Kampong Glam district. (more…) View the full article

Product news: Hackney designer Ed Carpenter has created a countryside version of his London design classic, the Pigeon Light, this time shaped like a pheasant. (more…) View the full article

Courtyards punch through the walls and roof of this bungalow that Japanese studio Kazuya Saito Architects designed for an elderly couple in Sendai (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Translucent polycarbonate sheets screen off the kitchen and office of this baking school in Seoul (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Playing on these swings outside an arts centre in Guimarães, Portugal, generates electricity to power lighting under the floor (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Dutch designer Chris Kabel has wrapped this house and studio in Amsterdam with a facade of perforated hexagons that catches the light like a hanging sheet of fabric. (more…) View the full article

Designer Gitta Gschwendtner talks about making her Bodge Bench for the Stepney Green Design Collection and east London’s “great creative atmosphere” in this movie filmed by Dezeen. (more…) View the full article

Product news: the repeating arches of these colourful chairs designed by Spanish architecture studio Arquitectura-G were inspired by the use of forced perspective in Renaissance paintings. (more…) View the full article

To create a full-length running track inside this refurbished gym in the Czech Republic, Prague studio QARTA Architektura added a translucent extension that projects out on stilts (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Product news: Austrian designer Robert Stadler’s update on the classic bentwood bistro chair by Thonet, synonymous with cafe culture since it appeared in the nineteenth century, has gone into production. (more…) View the full article

Competition: we’re giving readers the chance to win one of five calendars for 2013 featuring illustrations of modern superstitions. (more…) View the full article

This ridged limestone house by Athens studio decaArchitecture faces out over the edge of a cliff on the Greek island of Milos (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Italian designer Guido Garotti worked with traditional ceramicists to create a vase hand-painted with a stereoscopic image and a pair of road signs that look like decorative plates (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The top floor rooms of this house in Japan by Tato Architects are contained inside sheds that sit on the roof (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Berlin-based designer Uli Budde placed a flat disc above the bulb of this lamp so that it looks like a hot air balloon taking flight. (more…) View the full article

News: China will produce as many world-class designers as Japan within 20 years, according to Hong Kong-based industrial designer Michael Young. (more…) View the full article

Israeli engineer and systems developer Izhar Gafni has invented a cardboard bicycle that’s strong, waterproof and costs less than £10 to manufacture (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Cornices are commonly used to decorate the junctions between walls and ceilings, but at the new Boston shop for skin and haircare brand Aesop, cornices cover the walls and form shelves for the brand’s signature brown bottles. (more…) View the full article

News: the US military is developing its own 3D printers for the frontline which will enable soldiers to quickly and cheaply produce spare parts for their weapons and equipment. (more…) View the full article