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News: twelve international firms including OMA, Herzog & de Meuron, BIG and SANAA have been shortlisted to design a new headquarters and visitor centre for the Nobel Prize in Stockholm, Sweden. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: fifteen international design teams are in with a chance of redesigning one of three sites on Washington’s National Mall following the announcement of the shortlist for the National Mall Design Competition. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: a luxury retreat tucked away in the Mexican jungle and a warehouse-turned-hotel in New Orleans are among the projects to be shortlisted in this year's AHEAD Americas awards. Read more

Dezeen promotion: a conversion of New York's JFK terminal building and a brutalist boutique in the historical centre of Oaxaca, Mexico, are among the projects to be shortlisted in this year's AHEAD Americas awards. Read more View the full article

A Shigeru Ban-designed boutique hotel in Japan and a resort that hides amongst the Malaysian rainforest are among the projects to be shortlisted in this year's AHEAD Asia awards. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: a nine-suite boutique hotel housed within a 158-year-old aristocratic palazzo and a disused wine factory-turned-luxury resort are some of the projects to be shortlisted in the 2019 AHEAD Europe awards. Read more

Dezeen promotion: A grain store-turned-hotel and an open-air lodge located on a wildlife reserve are among the projects to be shortlisted in this year's AHEAD MEA awards. Read more View the full article

News: six international teams, including Herzog & de Meuron, SANAA and Renzo Piano, have been shortlisted to design a new visual culture museum in Hong Kong’s new West Kowloon Cultural District, while two Hong Kong-born architects have been chosen to design a centre for Chinese opera (above) in the same area. (more…) View the full article

Ikea is inviting consumers in Belgium to recycle their old catalogues into stuffing for a geometrically patterned cushion designed by Charles Kaisin. (more…) View the full article

A flatulence-filtering range of underwear designed to stop farts from smelling has been expanded by British clothing manufacturer Shreddies to include pyjama bottoms and jeans. (more…) View the full article

These underpants by British company Shreddies are designed to stop farts from smelling (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese designer Jo Nagasaka of Sschemata Architecture Office presented this series of wooden tables with fluorescent resin encasing their gouged-out tops at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan last month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A rescued stone colonnade stands amongst planes of concrete at this religious shrine in the Spanish countryside by Pamplona studio Otxotorena Arquitectos (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

At this year’s Royal College of Art graduate show in London designer Nicola Zocca presents a series of furniture made by shrinking plastic around its joints. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stacked volumes made of steel, concrete, wood and glass form this family home in California, which architecture firm Shubin Donaldson created for an industrial designer. Read more

Cheap materials combine with references to American pop culture in the interior of this small pizzeria by Tel Aviv-based Studio OPA. (more…) View the full article

Al Faya Lodge and Al Bait Hotel offer hospitality that connects travellers with Sharjah dezeen's history says Khawla Al Hashimi, director of project development at Shurooq, in this video produced by Dezeen for the AHEAD Awards. Read more View the full article

Bedrooms contained within towers at this housing complex on the Lebanese coast feature folding shutters and sliding glass walls that allow sea breezes to cool the interiors. Read more View the full article

Firm Architekten has extended a gabled farmhouse in Bezau, Austria, with a matching structure clad in timber louvres that double as shutters. Read more

Architect Ben Aranda has described the closing of Frank Lloyd Wright's School of Architecture at Taliesin as a "tragedy" and demanded more information. Read more View the full article

New York designer Bec Brittain has created this lamp made from LED tubes for American brand Matter. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Movie: Oki Sato of Nendo explains the concept behind the Japanese studio's redesign of a 40,000-square-metre shopping mall, in this video Dezeen filmed in Bangkok for retail development company Siam Piwat. (more…) View the full article

Cacti, gravel, concrete floors and a wooden bridge feature in this Brussels fashion boutique by JDS Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2014: the wooden base of this sofa by Swedish firm Note Design Studio extends outwards to become a side table. (more...) View the full article

Product news: New Zealand design studio Timothy John has created a cork and steel stool inspired by the glass beakers used in science experiments. (more…) View the full article