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Timber screens can be pulled aside to provide uninterrupted views towards the ocean from this house near the Australian resort of Noosa. Read more View the full article

This packaging design for Thinx organic tampons brings a significant part of menstruation out of hiding – the vagina. Read more View the full article

Sliding polycarbonate screens are set in front of the windows covering the stepped facade of this house in Barcelona by Spanish studio H Arquitectes. Read more View the full article

White metal louvres covering the facade of this apartment block in Paris can be drawn across windows and balconies to screen against the sun and street. Read more View the full article

Timber and glass walls slide along runners to reveal or enclose this gabled garden shed in Eindhoven, designed and built by Caspar Schols as a hobby space for his mother. Read more View the full article

Wooden panels and doors slide across the geometric floor tiles that Nook Architects uncovered during the remodelling of this narrow Barcelona apartment (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This music box designed by ÉCAL University of Art and Design Lausanne graduate José Ferrufino uses the movement of the musical mechanism to cause sticks of barley to gently sway. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: designer Hafsteinn Juliusson of Iceland and Italy presented flavoured paper snacks in Milan last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here is another project from the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, this time Israeli student Sharona Merlin has designed a flattened cup and saucer. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London studio alma-nac has staggered the floors of this extension to a 2.3 metre-wide terraced house in south London to help bring natural light in through a sloping roof. (more...) View the full article

This captioned movie reveals how a 2.3-metre-wide house in south London, designed by Alma-nac, has a staggered floor plan and sloped roof dotted with windows to make most of natural light. Read more View the full article

Dutch studio i29 has designed a minimal stainless-steel kitchen island for a classical Paris apartment (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese architecture practice CAPD have completed Umi – a simple, white house in Tokushima prefecture overlooking the sea with a large, deep-set window and terrace. Read more

San Francisco's Blue Truck Studio clad the exterior of this holiday house in Manhattan Beach, California with cedar siding to tone down its unusual geometries. Read more View the full article

Stockholm 2015: Stockholm-based Note Design Studio has reduced the dimensions of a typical lounge chair so that this seat for Swedish brand Fogia will fit into increasingly smaller homes and offices. (more…) View the full article

Planks of translucent glass provide the walls for this house in south London designed by architect Carl Turner for himself and his partner (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Boyarsky Murphy Architects sandwiched this glass-fronted family residence between two terraced houses in west London, on a site less than three metres wide at the front. (more...) View the full article

A team led by JDS Architects has created a waterfront recreation area for the Danish seaside town of Faaborg where swimming areas sit between piers and decked surfaces curve up over small buildings (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Zurich architects Dürig designed angular concrete frames to indicate the position of staircases and escalators at the Swiss city's main railway station, which descend from the platforms to a new subterranean station and shopping precinct (+ slideshow). (more…)

A glistening aluminium canopy undulates above the heads of waiting passengers at a bus station in Slough, England. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designer Frederik Roijé presents his range of sofas with an integral side-table in Cologne, Germany, this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This Melbourne cafe by French designer Sasufi features a 12 metre-long wall covered in timber offcuts. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These wooden drawers on a light metal frame are by Tokyo designer Keiji Ashizawa. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Ladders link the first floor, mezzanine and skylight of this house in Sapporo, Japan, by Akasaka Shinichiro Atelier. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Every room of this house in Japan by local architects Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates is contained in a separate block, connected by sliding doors. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article