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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is reopening after three years of renovation, including an extension by architecture firm Snøhetta that piggybacks on the original Mario Botta-designed building (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

An exhibit of furniture by American artist Donald Judd is on display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, accompanied by a guide with photographs of his New York and Marfa studios. Read more View the full article

Dutch studio BaksvanWengerden has added a splayed concrete extension to a triangular brick house in north Holland (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London designer Simon Heijdens has applied a special film to windows at the Art Institute Chicago that creates constantly-changing shadows in response to weather conditions outside. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Concrete walls, cement floors, grey tiles, marble and dark stained wood meet in this Taipei apartment created by Wei Yi International Design Associates for "an elder with great fortune and rich experience". Read more View the full article

London Design Festival 2011: Austrian designer Robert Stadler presents new work at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swedish designers Front have created a lamp shade where circular holes in the reflective inner layer project spots of light onto the outer diffuser. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London studio Jonathan Tuckey Design has converted a historic chapel in Wiltshire, England, into a house with a blackened-timber extension conceived as the building's shadow. (more...) View the full article

A concept for "shadowless" skyscrapers that redirect sunlight to public spaces could work for tall buildings anywhere in the world, say the London designers behind the proposal. (more…)

London designers Slowscape Collective created this temporary cinema at the Royal College of Art in London from faceted planes of oriented strand board. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An interactive streetlight that records the shadow of a passerby and plays it back to the next pedestrian is among this year's Designs of the Year nominees (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Israeli designer Shahar Livne has designed a pair of sneakers with alternative leather inserts made from the wasted fat, bones and blood of animals. Read more

Emulsified liquid latex stretches over bodies and fermented dough drips from skin in this movie by graduate textile designer Shai Langen. (more...) View the full article

Music: Amsterdam material designer Shai Langen made sculptural headpieces and covered models in hand-painted patterns for Jo Goes Hunting's Run Away music video. (more…) View the full article

New York designer Shaina Garfield has created an eco-friendly coffin that uses fungus to biodegrade the body so that it decomposes quickly and fertilises the surrounding soil. Read more

The Shakers are on the verge of extinction following the recent death of one of the sect's three surviving members. So why is their austere style having yet another revival? Read more View the full article

Towering bamboo poles encase this cylindrical wooden theatre in France, which opened in a fanfare last week, despite suffering vandalism just a few days before (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Eyeballs, tentacles and weird machinery inhabit the peculiar forest Roof Studio designed for Empire of the Sun's High and Low music video. Read more View the full article

The Temporium: today is your last chance to visit our Christmas shop The Temporium – we close at 3pm – and the final window in our Advent calendar features ceramics and glass by Londoner Shan Valla. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Temporium: London designer Shan Valla is selling these porcelain birds and bunnies at our pop-up store The Temporium, open until Sunday at 221 Brompton Road. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Northmodern 2015: American designer Shane Schneck has created a silicone lamp for Danish brand Menu that can be used in four different positions. (more…) View the full article

A lattice of extruded aluminium sections evokes images of the brickwork in Beijing’s old neighbourhoods at this luxury boutique by Kengo Kuma and Associates (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen reader Chaz Hutton snuck into the Shanghai Expo 2010, due to open this weekend. Here are his photographs of a selection of the pavilions. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has transformed an ageing Shanghai office block into a business incubator, featuring a new translucent aluminium skin (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

German architects GMP Architekten designed three stadiums for the World Aquatics Championships currently taking place in Shanghai. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article