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Terracotta-coloured surfaces and step-like decor features appear inside this Mexican restaurant in Sydney, which Studio Gram has designed to steer away from cultural cliches. Read more

Audi has teamed up with design studio Kram/Weisshaar to capture the "deathly fear" and "complete excitement" of passengers experiencing their first journey in a car that can drive itself at speeds of up to 220 kilometres per hour (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dutch designer Marleen Kaptein has partnered with design brand Label/Breed to create a chair from ribbons of robotically wrapped carbon fibre. (more…) View the full article

Forbo has launched Mamoleum Marbled, a new collection of marbled lino floor coverings designed to help create homely interiors. Read more

Ilse Crawford of Studioilse has converted a 100-year-old house in Stockholm into a boutique hotel filled with richly coloured wood, leather and velvet (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

British architect Norman Foster reflects on his first high-tech building and how it shaped offices to come in this exclusive Dezeen video interview. Read more View the full article

News: supercar brand McLaren is exploring ways of developing shape-shifting "transformer" vehicles that morph from self-driving city cars to low-slung racers in the countryside, according to chief designer Robert Melville. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: LG Hausys has developed a version of its Hi-Macs solid surface material that can be customised with any suitable 3D pattern to meet the individual needs of interior projects. Read more View the full article

London Design Festival 2016: design duo Barber and Osgerby have created a limited-edition table constructed from three curved pieces of oak (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

John McAslan + Partners is developing new designs for the huge Baitul Futuh Mosque complex in south London, which was damaged by a fire last year. (more…) View the full article

This children's library with rammed earth walls in Burundi, Africa, was built by Belgian studio BC Architects and members of the local community, according to an open-source design template (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Here are some more images of Zaha Hadid's Milanese shoe boutique for American footwear designer Stuart Weitzman. (more...) View the full article

Geometric furniture complements the Cubist stylings of this Paris house by Moussafir Architectes, which also features a weathering steel facade and a large pivoting door (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A 350-metre-long glass block ramps up from the runway of a former soviet airfield near the city of Tartu to form the Estonian National Museum, which officially opens to the public today (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Competition: bi-monthly architecture magazine Architectural Design (AD) is now available on the iPad and we’ve teamed up with them to give away a 16GB Wi-Fi iPad. (more…) View the full article

Plinths filled with tropical trees and plants were designed by Swiss studio Big-Game, to showcase the finalists of a design prototype competition in Paris organised by fashion house Hermès. (more...) View the full article

Swarovski Manufaktur is a rapid-prototyping facility designed by Snøhetta at the crystal producer's campus in Wattens, Austria. Read more

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for an architect at Hall McKnight in Belfast, whose projects include a house bridging a stream. Read more stories about Hall McKnight or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Azusa Murakami and Alexander Groves of Studio Swine have revisited the process they developed to make optical frames from human hair to create a new range of accessories (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Dutch architecture firm OMA has updated the Saks Fifth Avenue department store in Manhattan with a glass escalator that appears multicoloured from different angles. Read more

The first section of a five-kilometre-long, looping park is set to open in London's Greenwich this summer, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the architecture studio behind the High Line. Read more

High-rise living is no longer just for people. A team of architecture students from the University at Buffalo has recently constructed a skyscraper for a colony of bees (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

With 50 days to go until entries close we have just received our 1000th entry for Dezeen Awards, making it one of the biggest design awards on the planet. Read more View the full article

This movie tours the interior of New York penthouse apartment Skyhouse, which contains a quadruple-height living room, columns with climbing treads and a tubular steel slide that plunges down from the attic. (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival: data streams from all over the city are visualised on the faceted surfaces of Japanese designer Keiichi Matsuda‘s installation inside the cupola of the V&A museum for the London Design Festival. (more…) View the full article