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Jars of tea and second-hand books are separated in stacked wooden cubes at a Taipei teahouse. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

News: the winners of the 2013 Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards have been announced, with Chicago-based collective Studio Gang Architects taking the prize for architecture. (more...) View the full article

Construction will begin this week on the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC designed by architect David Adjaye. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Renowned Danish architect Poul Henningsen is believed to have once owned this house in Copenhagen, which local studio Norm Architects refurbished by opening up the interior to create bright rooms containing dark and tactile bespoke furniture. Read more View the full article

Milan 2013: Dutch designer Frederik Roijé presents a tall outdoor heater shaped like a factory chimney in the Tortona district of Milan this week. (more...) View the full article

Judd Lysenko Marshall Architects of Melbourne have completed a Corten steel-clad house in Smokey Town, Australia. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Gianni Botsford Architects worked with translucent concrete to create this boxy garden pavilion in Zurich, dedicated to "the old fashioned art of smoking" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Japanese studio Hiroyuki Ogawa Architects has created a smoking room that is designed to never be smoky inside a shopping centre on the outskirts of Tokyo (+ slideshow). (more…)

An oak capsule houses a raised living room and workspace inside this renovated apartment in Moscow by Russian architect Peter Kostelov (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Cardiff and Amsterdam-based design studio Smörgåsbord has developed Cymru Wales, a "nation-defining" font family that gives an accurate, digital expression to the Cymraeg language for the first time. Read more View the full article

Japanese architects atelierA5 have completed this four-storey house in Tokyo enclosed by a perforated metal screen. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Amsterdam designer Camille Cortet created these snake-like leggings by cutting triangular apertures into the fabric. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This undulating course was designed by Canadian firm Kleinfeldt Mychajlowycz Architects to host BMX races during the 2015 Pan American Games (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A canopy supported by slim white columns covers a hotpot restaurant by MUDA Architects in Chengdu, China which hugs the edge of a lotus pond in a eucalyptus forest. Read more

Video sharing app Snapchat has made its first foray into hardware with a pair of glasses that allow users to wirelessly send clips without touching their phone (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

The upper storey of this house in Kanagawa is supported by timber beams that extend from the outer walls towards an atrium that connects the two levels (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

New York studio Snarkitecture has taken over a space at Hudson Yards to allow the public to explore its experiments, including the inaugural installation comprising a landscape of cork-clad columns. Read more

Architecture studio Snark has completed a house in Maebashi, Japan, incorporating a solarium that the owner uses to grow plants. Read more View the full article

New York design studio Snarkitecture is celebrating a decade of projects with an exhibition at the National Building Museum in Washington DC, which includes a white gabled house and a kidney-shaped ball pit. Read more View the full article

Clouds of folded fabric line the inside of this pop-up store, created by Snarkitecture during Milan design week to mark the 80th anniversary of Italian accessories brand Valextra. Read more View the full article

A multi-room stand designed by Snarkitecture at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair features in this captioned video produced by Dezeen for flooring brand Bolon. Read more View the full article

Five hundred replica Air Jordan V sneakers line the walls of Kith's new Miami outpost, designed by New York studio Snarkitecture. Read more View the full article

Snarkitecture and Caesarstone have teamed up to create an installation exploring the changing forms of water, which was set inside an abandoned 19th-century building during this year's Milan design week. Read more View the full article

New York studio Snarkitecture has filled a Manhattan gallery with 168 white spherical orbs that light up in a blue hue when touched. Read more

Brooklyn studio Snarkitecture has used pink-hued steel and floor-to-ceiling mirrors to transform an industrial space in Los Angeles into a pop-up store for fashion brand COS (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article