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Japanese architect Shimpei Oda has reworked the dark interior of a humble 1920s house in Kyoto to bring natural light into living spaces and create a small gallery that opens to the street (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

If you liked the last monochrome boutique with a checkout in the changing rooms by architect Nelson Chow, here’s another one. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This Hong Kong boutique has an undulating ceiling of woven cables and a checkout inside the changing rooms. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2013: this collection designed by Arik Levy for outdoor furniture brand Emu features aluminium seats and footstools with tops that fold down around square frames. (more...) View the full article

This activity-tracking device by former Apple CEO John Sculley's tech startup Misfit looks more like luxury jewellery than a sports accessory. (more...) View the full article

The Shingle House by NORD Architecture is the second completed holiday home in Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This Tokyo house and office for a funeral director has been split into three sections so that two can be removed later, in case a planned road gets built through the site (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Canadian cedar shingles and slats cover the gables of this community centre and scout hut, which sit behind a concrete wall on the edge of Copenhagen's Søndermarken park (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

South Korean designer Shinkyu Shon created this furniture collection using split pine logs and stainless steel to highlight the differences between traditional Korean and more modern western materials. Read more View the full article

Architecture video blogger Martin van der Linden explains the different types of torii gates found at Japanese Shinto temples, in his latest contribution to Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

Fraser Brown MacKenna Architects has obtained planning permission for a development of micro homes made from shipping containers with green roofs in Aylesbury, England. Read more

Architects Mouaz Abouzaid, Bassel Omara and Ahmed Hammad have proposed creating micro homes from shipping containers, called Sheltainers, for people living in Cairo's cemeteries. Read more

Dutch architect Julius Taminiau has created a temporary startup hub using shipping containers in an Amsterdam science park. Read more View the full article

Belgian practice TOOP Architectuur has designed two mobile architects' studios for its staff made of repurposed shipping containers clad in mirrors and timber. Read more View the full article

Building startup Containerwerk has turned old shipping containers into 21 micro apartments for visitors to the town of Wertheim in Germany. Read more View the full article

A two-bed intensive care unit within a shipping container, designed by Italian architects Carlo Ratti and Italo Rota, has been built at a hospital in Turin and is being used to treat patients fighting the coronavirus. Read more View the full article

A red shipwreck crashes into this high-rise, which Black n' Arch and sculptor David Černý have designed for developer Trigema on the outskirts of Prague. Read more

Japanese designer Shiro Kuramata's 1989 Miss Blanche chair has sold for its highest ever price during an auction at Sotheby's London. (more…) View the full article

A doorway is the only opening in the faceted concrete facade of this family residence in Tokyo by architecture studio MDS. (more...) View the full article

Photographer Edmund Sumner has sent us his pictures of a temple by Mumbai studio Sameep Padora & Associates. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London studio NEON has built a structure with shingles that "shiver" and adapt in response to changing weather as part of a exhibition in Finland (+ movie). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

These delicate bowls by Japanese design studio Nendo are so thin they quiver in the wind (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Dezeenwire: Jay Merrick on Jean Nouvel’s design for the Serpentine Pavilion in London, due to open in July - Independent See also: Our story about the Serpentine Pavilion design by Jean Nouvel All our stories about Jean Nouvel </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Italian designer Eugenia Morpurgo has set up a high-street micro factory, which uses digital manufacturing to produce her range of customisable shoes that wearers can assemble and repair themselves. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen in Israel: these high-heeled shoes that look like inflatable sex dolls are part of a collection of footwear by Tel Aviv designer Kobi Levi. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article