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Danish architecture studio CEBRA has revealed a proposal for a snowflake-shaped ski dome that would be the biggest in the world, with three kilometres of slopes arching over a river in the Danish city of Randers. (more…) View the full article

Dutch designer Pepe Heykoop has created this collection of furniture by covering an assortment of old chairs in odd scraps of leather. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Flaps of dimpled silicone rubber are stitched together to form fleshy earrings, nipple brooches and sanitary pads in this jewellery collection by Taiwanese designer and recent graduate I-Ting Ho. (more…) View the full article

Shrouds of latex cast from derelict buildings hang in this installation by Amsterdam design studio KNOL Ontwerp, forming ghostly recreations of spaces (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The brick piers of an old Victorian coach house are incorporated in the facade of this skinny house in New Cross, London, designed by architecture studio Selencky Parsons. Read more View the full article

A skinny house clad in black steel by Apollo Architects & Associates slots into a tiny plot of land in Tokyo, Japan, and features minimalist interiors. Read more View the full article

Feature: narrow homes have become increasingly popular in Japan, but can these awkwardly shaped residences offer housing solutions to other cities around the world, asks Dezeen deputy editor Amy Frearson. (more...) View the full article

New photos reveal the glassy exterior and thin sculpted form of Madison Square Park Tower, a 65-storey apartment building by US firm Kohn Pedersen Fox that is slated to open this year. Read more View the full article

Slideshow: a wall of wooden scales folds through the glazed facade of this house and studio that Korean architects AND designed for an artist in South Korea. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: during the London Design Festival Italian design brand Skitsch host an installation by New York designer Harry Allen and a Dezeen Watch Store pop-up shop at their recently-opened showroom in west London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Italian design brand Skitsch have sacked their CEO Renato Preti. See press release below. More about Skitsch on Dezeen » (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New Korean Garden is an "Instagrammable" meeting and events space proposed for a rooftop in Seoul, South Korea, which is made from turquoise, pebble-like inflatables. Read more

Cologne 2015: Milan studio Skrivo has collaborated with Danish brand Soft Line to design a chair with backrest that is inserted into the seat like a wafer in an ice cream. (more…) View the full article

Bicycle thieves will need a stomach of steel to thwart the SkunkLock, which makes anyone who attempts to cut through it throw up. Read more View the full article

This Slovenian home by Skupaj Arhitekti mimics the gabled form of its Alpine village neighbours, but it also features contemporary details and finishes (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Vertiginous swimming pools will cantilever like diving boards from every apartment in this tower proposed for Lima, Peru, by Mexican studio DCPP Arquitectos. (more…) View the full article

Here’s a house with gardens on all three levels designed by Singaporean studio Guz Architects on Santosa Island, Singapore. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

News: the viewing terraces opened today at the top of Rafael Viñoly's so-called Walkie Talkie skyscraper in London, pictured in these exclusive images by photographer Edmund Sumner (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Two shipping containers provide a sea-facing observation deck atop this tower in South Korea by Portuguese artist Didier Faustino. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The engineering firm behind London's 10-storey-high Sky Pool, Eckersley O'Callaghan, has demonstrated its latest glass innovation: a nine-metre-long slide (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Australian firm Koichi Takada Architects has unveiled a slatted timber tower for Los Angeles, featuring a splayed bottom that draws on Marilyn Monroe's "flying skirt" moment. Read more

The colours of the sky are echoed in the furnishings and fittings of this lofty Manhattan restaurant, which architecture studio Woods Bagot designed so the views could "steal the show". Read more View the full article

Construction is underway on two bendy apartment towers in New York by SHoP Architects that will be joined by a skybridge offering a pool, hot tub and bar. (more…) View the full article

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have built a flying robot that can guide people around complex urban environments or aid search-and-rescue missions, in an attempt to show that drones can perform useful tasks as well as sinister ones (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

This renovation of a house in Tokyo by Keiji Ashizawa Design involved creating a courtyard through the upper storeys. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article