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Mies van der Rohe designed this golf clubhouse in 1930 for the countryside surrounding Krefeld, Germany, but it's only just been constructed (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The platform heels of these shoes by graduate fashion designer Laura Papp are moulded from porcelain (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Comments update: could Google's modular smartphone prototype topple the market dominance of Apple's iPhone? (more…) View the full article

Delicate glazing fits around a bulky concrete structure at this hilltop house in Toledo by Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Local basalt stone mixed into the concrete used to construct this holiday home in India helps to connect it with its mountainous site (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Movie: in our second exclusive interview from this year's World Architecture Festival, Scott Adams of Taylor Cullity Lethlean discusses the design of The Australian Garden, which won the award for best landscape project. (more...) View the full article

This 25-metre wooden lookout in the Czech Republic by Mjölk Architekti is named Cucumber Tower in an attempt to discourage association with phallic forms (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: here's a preview of the nearly completed Pérez Art Museum Miami by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, which opens tomorrow in downtown Miami and which suggests a new "kind of vernacular" for the city, according to Jacques Herzog (+ slideshow + photography is by Iwan Baan). (more...) View the full article

Canadian firm RAW Design has created a series of shelters that look like giant pompoms to keep skaters warm on a frozen river in Winnipeg (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London studio PATALAB Architecture made the most of the space inside this awkward-shaped residence in the north of the city by running a staircase along the entire rear wall and adding a door that folds around a corner (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: part bookend and part light source, the Ludovica by Italian design studio Zanocchi & Starke combines two pieces of desktop furniture in one minimal package (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese architect Nobuo Araki has transformed an indoor swimming pool in Tokyo into a fashion store, turning the empty pool and its steel ladder into key features of the boutique's design (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: London designer Keiichi Matsuda explains how augmented reality could transform the way we navigate the city in the first of our video interviews with designers participating in our Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition. (more...) View the full article

Turkish architecture studio Autoban has designed giant wooden "cocoons" for the interior of the new international terminal at Baku airport in Azerbaijan (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

As anticipation of Apple's smartwatch launch reaches fever pitch, we've rounded up eight of the best, worst and funniest examples of what the iWatch probably won't look like. (more...) View the full article

British architect David Chipperfield has completed his first project for Swiss accessories brand Bally – the interior of a flagship boutique on London's New Bond Street (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Swedish designer Fredrik Wallner has designed a flexible bathroom system for Stockholm brand Swoon that takes references from furniture in other parts of the home (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Oklahoma firm Kinslow, Keith & Todd has presented its vision to build a skyscraper shaped like a tornado on top of a Tulsa parking garage. (more…)

This week we reported on Rem Koolhaas's statements about "sinister" technologies, a concept for Ikea's kitchen of the future and clip-on supports that can turn any flat surface into furniture (pictured). Click through for a roundup of the last seven days in architecture and design. (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

US architect Martin Fenlon cites the Gehry House as inspiration for the renovation and expansion of his own home – a cedar-clad bungalow in Los Angeles (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A small late-Victorian dwelling in Portland, Oregon, has been transformed into a modern home with a monochrome red steel and wood exterior (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the UK's National Trust is calling upon designers to produce a visitor experience at a historic stately home, as part of its project to "redefine the country house". (more…) View the full article

SAM Architects chose century-old brickwork and charred larch for the exterior of this mews house in southeast London, which features a brightly coloured kitchen and a folding facade (photos by Edmund Sumner + slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Canadian design studio Moss & Lam rediscovered a traditional craft process to create this collection of patterned side tables. (more…) View the full article

Clerkenwell Design Week 2016: London-based YenChen YaWen Studio has combined Jesmonite with metal powders to create a series of candle holders, pots and vases that oxidise and change colour as they age (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article