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A curvy glass facade lined with chainmail fronts the first location of American department store Nordstrom in New York City. Read more View the full article

News: James Dyson, designer of the Dyson vacuum cleaner, has attacked the UK government's plans to force overseas students to return home after completing their studies, describing the idea as "short-sighted". (more…) View the full article

As Team 4, Su Brumwell, Richard Rogers, Wendy Cheesman and Norman Foster began to develop high-tech architecture. Continuing our series on the style we look at four key projects. Read more View the full article

Dark grey cladding, snowy white interiors and ample natural light feature in this home with a basement apartment, designed by Canadian studio D'Arcy Jones Architects for an extended family. Read more View the full article

Robotic construction company Apis Cor has used its technology to build the world's largest 3D-printed building, a two-storey office in Dubai. Read more View the full article

Fashion designer Virgil Abloh has created a graffiti-covered furniture collection for Paris studio Galerie Kreo, which takes cues from brutalism and the urban landscape. Read more View the full article

PRTZN Architecture has used upholstered foam blocks to transform a tiny room in a Hungarian church into a children's playroom. Read more View the full article

Hector Esrawe's design studio has completed its first residence – a red-brick house in Mexico City that encloses a lush courtyard at its centre. Read more View the full article

Glasgow studio O'DonnellBrown has designed and built an open-air classroom, which will host learning workshops after the coronavirus shutdown is over. Read more View the full article

Icona Design is presenting Fibonacci Concerto, a concept yacht that evokes a grand piano, at VDF x Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

Week seven of Virtual Design Festival featured a video interview with Stephen Burks, an exclusive product launch by Tom Dixon and an all-star roundtable discussion with architects Junya Ishigami, Frida Escobedo, Counterspace and more. Read more View the full article

Icelandic fashion designer Una Hlin Kristjansdottir presented her first collection at the inaugural Reykjavík Fashion Festival as part of Icelandic design festival DesignMarch at the weekend. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Second-year interior design students from the University of East London have created a series of lamps for a fictitious nail salon as part of this VDF school show. Read more View the full article

Milan 2010: french designer Mathieu Lehanneur presented a bed for curing insomnia in the Zona Tortona district of Milan last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This boat made entirely from plastic bottles by Exploration Architecture is making its way across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Sydney in order to highlight environmental damage to the seas. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: British designer Jasper Morrison unveiled his design for footwear brand Camper at his east London shop last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design studio Beta Tank have designed a chair with moving panels that transform it from a functional object (on which tax is payable at 19%) to an art object (tax payable at 7%). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are the five most viewed Dezeen stories from June this year. In first place was the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas by Frank Gehry. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Crowd-sourcing design brand Made.com of London have launched these simple bikes with coloured wheel rims. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A stark concrete multi-purpose space occupies the ground floor of this house in Osaka by Japanese architect Takeshi Hamada. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This huge nest with a retractable staircase by Swedish designers Inrednin Gsgruppen forms part of a hotel in the trees in northern Sweden. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Hong Kong artist and designer Kacey Wong has designed another topical robot-shaped survival suit, this time intended to protect people from radiation leaking from nuclear power stations. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year Dezeen readers were utterly outraged by a range of beer packaged inside dead animals. Apart from those who found it really, really funny… London mayor Boris Johnson launched the Barclays Cycle Hire Scheme, Herzog & de Meuron unveiled an apartment tower for Beirut and Tokujin Yoshioka filled a 15 metre-long tank with flying feathers. Dezeen launched a new comments system, which readers put to use by drooling over a concrete coffee machine, disputing the feasibility of a clock with batteries for hands and ridiculing the London Gate project. See all our stories from July 2010 » See our review of last year » </img></img&g…

This step ladder by Latvian designer Arthur Analts can rest flat against the wall, fit into a corner at 45 degrees or rest securely in a corner at 25 degrees, thanks to the shape of its top and bottom rungs. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A sci-fi animation in which a downtrodden robot workforce battles with police against a backdrop of dystopian architecture is one of the winners of the RIBA President’s Medals Student Awards, announced this evening. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article