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The Temporium: patterned paper planes crafted by a traditional printing press are behind the eighth window of our Advent calendar of products at the The Temporium. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with publishers Routledge to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of Le Corbusier – béton brut and ineffable space 1940-1965 by Roberto Gargiani and Anna Rosellini. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: wonky curtains, a disco ball and framed X-ray photographs can be found at the temporary apartment in Milan where design brand Maison Martin Margiela are presenting new furniture this week. (more…) View the full article

French architects Opus 5 have built a concert hall on top of a former seventeenth century convent in northern France. (more…) View the full article

This holiday home by Swiss architects Hurst Song Architekten is partly embedded in the steep slopes of the Swiss Alps (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This squishy headgear by Spain and Switzerland-based studio Kawamura Ganjavian creates the perfect conditions for a power nap at your desk, at the airport or in the library (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

This terrace of eight houses by Peter Barber Architects is clad with timber shingles to match the neighbouring fences and sheds of a housing estate in east London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This earthquake-proof house on a hillside in western Chile by architects Pezo von Ellrichshausen has six rooms with glass walls (+ photos by Cristobal Palma). (more…) View the full article

British graphic designer Peter Saville references stripy hazard signs in the artwork for the latest album by experimental pop group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. (more...) View the full article

News: the latest Maggie's cancer care centre designed by Frank Gehry opened in Hong Kong yesterday, becoming the first of the charity's units outside the UK. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: Zaha Hadid will present two monochrome pendant lamps for Italian brand Slamp at the Euroluce lighting show tomorrow. (more...) View the full article

A narrow atrium brings daylight into windowless rooms on four storeys at this renovated house in Hanoi by Vietnamese office AHL Architects Associates. (more...) View the full article

News: British architect Colin Stansfield Smith, a pioneer of UK school design, has died at the age of 80. (more...) View the full article

This cylindrical timber pavilion topped by a large flat roof was self-built by Australian architect Max Prichard as a tiny studio for his treetop residence (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the new Please watch by British industrial designer Jasper Morrison for fashion brand Issey Miyake is now available at Dezeen Watch Store. (more...) View the full article

News: the UK has unveiled a self-driving "pod" and announced regulations for testing automated vehicles on British roads later this year. (more…) View the full article

The entire contents of this shop and cafe in Vienna can be hidden away behind a grid of white ceramic tiles. (more...) View the full article

News: architecture firm Snøhetta has unveiled the design for a new staircase linking the existing San Francisco Museum of Modern Art with the 21,000 square-metre extension currently under construction. (more...) View the full article

Undulating branches emerge from the centre of a dining table at this Swiss natural foods restaurant by Ippolito Fleitz Group (+ slideshow + photographs by Zooey Braun). (more...) View the full article

Hungarian art and design collective Szövetség'39 has unveiled a concept to reduce the rising sea levels in the world's delta regions by introducing a modular structure that will cultivate mangrove forests to form natural dams. (more...) View the full article

Bored with the dismal view from the office window, Polish studio Zalewski Architecture envisioned a grassy suspended walkway that would allow them to take a stroll without leaving the building. (more…) View the full article

Zaha Hadid Architects is one of 11 international firms designing a studio apartment at a new McDonald's charity house in Hamburg to accommodate the relatives of children receiving hospital treatment nearby (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2014: Danish furniture brand Normann Copenhagen has launched an armchair and two-seater version of the padded Swell sofa created by Swedish designer Jonas Wagell to resemble risen bread. (more...) View the full article

Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (FJMT), the architect behind the 2013 World Building of the Year, has overhauled the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery by transforming an old courtyard into a gallery and framing a new public square (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

An infinity pool will form the roof of this cavernous house designed by Athens studio Kois Associated Architects for the Greek island of Tinos (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article