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San Francisco company Scribble Technology has revealed a prototype for a writing device that can scan specific tones and then write in the same colour (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: a house in New Jersey designed in 1954 by the influential American architect Frank Lloyd Wright could be sold and moved as far away as Italy in order to save it from flood damage. (more...) View the full article

Danish architecture studio EFFEKT has built a helical tower that invites you to climb up above the treetops of the Gisselfeld Klosters Forest in Denmark. Read more

Arched openings and curved walls feature throughout this compact family home in Japan, designed by architecture studio Alts Design Office to make the interior feel more cosy (+ slideshow). (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

This Tokyo five-storey townhouse by Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa is fronted by a stack of gardens. (more...) View the full article

This facility for abused children in Queensland features walls of robust concrete blocks and outdoor play areas sheltered beneath a scalloped canopy (+ slideshow). (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

This Vietnam house extension cantilevers off the edge of a stone plinth, protecting the rooms inside from annual flooding (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Beijing Design Week 2014: design studio Lava has created a set of symbols that take elements from both Chinese characters and Western graphics in the hope that they will be understood by people from both cultures (+ slideshow). (more...) 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

A bicycle made from oak, a light-reflective spray and a minimal compass that pairs with a smartphone app are among Dezeen social media editor Ross Bryant's favourite cycling-related designs this year. (more…) View the full article

A concrete staircase with no balustrade ascends through this minimal house in the Valencia region of Spain, which was added to a converted factory containing the headquarters of an outdoor furniture company (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: Swiss studio Virtual Design Unit has digitally modelled an unbuilt Zurich theatre designed by Jørn Utzon in 1964, to show that the building "could be built now" (+ slideshow + interview). (more...) View the full article

Architecture studio MAPA has revealed the latest project from its prefabricated building company Minimod, a pair of factory-made houses at an estate surrounded by mountains in Brazil (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our new Pinterest board features all the winning projects of this year's World Architecture and Inside festivals, including the Auckland Art Gallery voted as the World Building of the Year and a tiled Barcelona apartment named as the World Interior of the Year. See our new WAF and Inside Festival 2013 Pinterest board» Follow Dezeen on Pinterest» View the full article

Vienna Design Week 2014: Vienna designers TaliaYStudio have released their first range of self-produced products with JellySeries 1, a collection of brass pendant necklaces that hold circles of yellow, cyan and magenta glass that can be used as camera filters (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Robots could be sent to Mars to build caves for later habitation by humans, according to a proposal for the colonisation of the planet by German firm ZA Architects (+ slideshow). (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

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

The European Union is moving into a new headquarters in Brussels, which features a huge glass atrium enclosing a bulging, lantern-like structure. Read 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

Movie: Konrad Buhagiar of Architecture Project explains how he built a 60 metre-high outdoor lift in historic Valletta, Malta, in our latest interview with category winners at last month's Inside Festival in Singapore. (more...) View the full article

Product news: this ping pong table by Barcelona studio Antoni Pallejà Office has been pared down to look at home in a domestic interior (+ movie). (more...) View the full article