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Furniture made of recycled plastic and fabrics made from plastic bags are among winners of the Ro Plastic Prize competition. Read more

Dezeen is partnering with Rossana Orlandi to challenge designers to develop new ways of recycling and reusing plastic with the Ro Plastic Prize. Read more

Milanese design gallerist Rossana Orlandi is launching a project aimed at changing the perception of plastic and ensuring the material is used responsibly. Read more View the full article

Designer Richard Clarkson has created a conceptual smartphone with a rotary dial. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A pair of artists built and lived in this house balanced on a pole in upstate New York, which spun around and inclined as they moved around it during their week-long residency (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Openable concrete panels and sun-shading blinds add dynamism to the otherwise austere facades of the Elcano housing block by Madrid-based practice FRPO. Read more

Swivelling pods allow the owners of this house in Tehran to adapt to Iran's fluctuating temperatures by opening up rooms in summer, or turning them inwards during winter. (more...) View the full article

PKMN Architectures has renovated an apartment on the Spanish coast, adding modular storage walls that spin around to create extra bedrooms for guests (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Architecture firm Roth Sheppard has added a pair of steeply pitched metal gables to this brick Tudor Revival house in Denver. Read more View the full article

US shoe company Rothy's has launched handbags that it claims are made from 100 per cent recycled materials. Read more View the full article

Apartment dwellers can enjoy nearly 1.5 metres of indoor veggie patch using the Rotofarm by Bace, a countertop hydroponic garden where plants are rotated to grow more quickly. Read more

An angular metal-clad canopy now projects over a public square at the entrance to Rotterdam Centraal station, which reopened last week following an extensive remodelling by a team including Dutch firm Benthem Crouwel Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch firm Korteknie Stuhlmacher Architecten covered the facade of this school in Rotterdam with black and white tiles arranged in patterns that reference typical Dutch interior decoration (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: British designer Tom Dixon's latest collection, launching at MOST in Milan next month, includes solid brass champagne buckets and faceted furniture inspired by gemstones (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Concrete was cast against bamboo to create the rugged walls of this boutique hotel in Bali, by Australian architect Nic Brunsdon. Read more View the full article

Chilean architects Alejandro Soffia and Gabriel Rudolphy were set a strict budget for this seaside guesthouse complex, so they used standard dimensions to get as much value as possible out of their building materials (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Danish design studio KiBiSi have created a sofa that looks like a rolled-up mattress for furniture company Versus. (more…) View the full article

The stem of this task lamp designed by Bao-Nghi Droste forms an exaggerated loop behind the conical shade (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A wooden shutter slides to uncover the target-shaped window of a brick building in France by architects Boman that provides facilities for an archery range. Read more View the full article

Continuing our special feature about swimming pools, here’s a timber pool house with limestone walls beside a farmhouse in Surrey, England. See a movie of the building on Dezeen Screen » (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Carlo Ratti and his team at MIT's Senseable City Lab have come up with a "bridge" made of continuously circling autonomous boats for a tricky patch of Amsterdam's waterway. Read more

Dutch firm Wiel Arets Architects has completed a water-traffic control centre in the town of Maasbracht with a curved glass upper storey that offers panoramic views over the surrounding waterways (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A stainless steel net takes the place of a banister around the staircase and first floor corridor of this apartment in Prague. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Italian studio Westway Architects has completed the modernisation of a winery near Venice, which combines wine-coloured zinc-titanium cladding with windows to view the production process. Read more View the full article

Portuguese architect Álvaro Fernandes Andrade has completed a training facility for Olympic-standard rowers where angular white volumes snake across a tiered landscape of grassy slopes and dry-stone walls (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article