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Japanese studios SNARK and OUVI have slotted a six-metre-wide house with a lopsided roof between two buildings on the edge of a cemetery (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

North America's tallest glass elevator, designed by Solomon Cordwell Buenz, will climb the exterior of the modernist Aon Center skyscraper in Chicago in 60 seconds offering tourists panoramic views. Read more

Milan 2016: Italian architect Matteo Thun joins a growing list of designers launching their own brands, with this customisable furniture and lighting collection focused on handmade products (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Self-driving cars will need to "build up a relationship" with their occupants to reassure them that they are safe, according to BMW board director Peter Schwarzenbauer. Read more View the full article

The Morgans Hotel in New York, which developer Ian Schrager turned into the world's first boutique hotel, is being sold and converted into high-end micro apartments. Read more View the full article

News: miracle material graphene has been used to develop infrared sensors, which could be inserted into contact lenses and allow the wearer to see in the dark. (more...) View the full article

A spiralling stack of chunky wooden blocks forms this staircase designed by architecture studio QC for an apartment in Poland. (more...) View the full article

Italian designer Tommaso Caldera has reinterpreted the classic caged workshop lamp by combining it with a domestic shade. (more...) View the full article

Precht – the architecture studio of Penda co-founders Frei and Chris Precht – has developed a concept for modular housing where residents would produce their own food in vertical farms. Read more

This ridged steel art gallery by South Korean studio Mass Studies has half of its floors buried underground while others balance on a pair of triangular piloti (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: designjunction will return to the London Design Festival from 24 to 27 September 2015 with a series of installations, activities and "flash factories" across two new locations. (more…) View the full article

South Korean designer Wonmin Park has created a monotone range of his furniture made from slabs of cast resin (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Brexit: London and other UK cities need to take "radical action" and introduce their own work permits so design firms can thrive after Brexit, according to former government policy adviser Rohan Silva. (more…) View the full article

This office and workshop for a theatre designer in Osaka was designed by Japanese studio Mattch to look like a glazed box hovering between two solid curtains (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Plans to demolish the Wakefield Market Hall buildings in northern England, built by British architect David Adjaye just 10 years ago, have been approved. Read more View the full article

Our movie for Philips Lumiblade about how OLED lighting technology will change interior design leads the lastest issue of Dezeen Mail, which also includes sex toys, twisting skyscrapers and all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 132 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Eindhoven designer Olivier van Herpt has developed a machine that uses a piston-based extruder to 3D-print complex functional objects using clay (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: exhibition organiser designjunction is supporting design agent smallpond in showcasing products by American and European brands in New York from 18 to 20 May. (more...) View the full article

News: a proposal by Rem Koolhaas' firm OMA for a bridge that could accommodate different types of traffic as well as pedestrians and events has been selected by local authorities in Bordeaux, France, as one of two final competing designs. (more...) View the full article

Oriol Garcia has overhauled a derelict apartment in Barcelona, removing walls he deemed "light barriers" to create a bright and spacious home that celebrates its historic details (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2013: Swedish collective Front will launch six new products in Milan next week, including leather stools shaped like squidgy animals and a plywood table with burnt-on with doodles (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Supertall skyscrapers with rainbow facades and shaped like a mountain piercing a light-up cloud are on the shortlist for Southbank – a new tower in Melbourne, which if built would be Australia's tallest building. Read more View the full article

Czech architecture studio DDAANN has converted the lower level of a spacious apartment in Prague to create a guest house and a meeting point for group cycling trips. (more…) View the full article

American studio Desai Chia Architecture wanted to capture the "intellectually playful aspects" of Quartz in the design of the digital media outlet's new headquarters in Manhattan. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen designed the new Tim Van Laere Gallery in Antwerp as five raw concrete boxes with pink shuttered doors. Read more