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Furniture made of guns by Mozambican designer Gonçalo Mabunda will be on show in London next week. (more...) View the full article

News: online design retailer Fab has changed its strategy yet again, ending its relationship with external designers and brands across Europe and instead focusing on selling its own custom-designed furniture. (more...) View the full article

A triangular section of frame at the top of this mirror by German design duo Kaschkasch Cologne allows it to rest neatly in the corner of a room. (more...) View the full article

Criss-crossing concrete columns surround this colourful multi-storey car park by Austrian studio Kleboth Lindinger Dollnig for the classical music venues of Erl, Austria (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

British designer Patrick Stevenson-Keating has reimagined the financial system to create a banking process intended to encourage users to think more about their purchases for this year's Designers in Residence programme at London's Design Museum (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: there are 61 national pavilions exhibiting as part of this year's Venice Biennale, so it's nearly impossible to see them all. Dezeen's architecture editor Amy Frearson has picked out the 10 that are not to be missed. (more…) View the full article

La Shed Architecture has renovated an old residence in a Montreal neighbourhood, adding a roof terrace flanked by corrugated metal and a bright red-orange staircase (+ slideshow). (more…)

Five years after the devastating Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, Klein Dytham Architecture has unveiled a community hall for recovering city Sōma, designed to look like a huge straw hat (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Design Indaba has announced its line-up for the international conference, exhibition of African design, film festival and music programmes taking place in Cape Town from 26 February. (more...) View the full article

The first collection from British designer Lee West's new brand features cylindrical brass items for the home. (more…) View the full article

Design Miami: London designer Asif Khan used Swarovski crystals to recreate an ice halo – an atmospheric effect most often seen in freezing northern climates – in this installation in the sub-tropical heat of Miami (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen: a major redevelopment for London's Piccadilly Circus was approved this week, while new research suggested the city's skyscraper boom looks set to continue. (more…) View the full article

The Royal Institute of British Architects has revealed the six buildings competing for this year's Stirling Prize, including a Maggie's cancer-care centre in Scotland, London's NEO Bankside housing, and the expansion of Manchester's Whitworth Gallery (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Dezeen Watch Store: Saturn is the first digital watch by Hong Kong watch brand Ziiiro to feature at Dezeen Watch Store. (more...) View the full article

American fashion designer Jeremy Scott has designed a special edition for car brand Smart, with wings that shoot out from the back to form the rear and brake lights (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Norwegian designer Falke Svatun has crafted a range of stoneware vessels with cut-out bases, enabling them to balance on the edge of shelves or windowsills (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

In our latest competition, we have teamed up with publisher Gestalten to give five readers the chance to win a copy of Bohemian Residence, a book that explores eclectic city dwellings. Read more View the full article

Milan 2016: British designer Tom Dixon has created a series of experimental kitchens using solid-surface material Caesarstone inside a deconsecrated 17th century church in Milan (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

An indoor saltwater pool, a fitness centre, and furnished cabins with televisions are among the offerings at this glamping site in the Pacific Northwest designed by US firm OfficeUntitled. Read more

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Dutch designer Lilian van Daal claims 3D-printing can replace traditional upholstery techniques to produce spongy-surfaced furniture in this movie filmed in Eindhoven. (more…) View the full article

Volvo has installed an environmentally friendly seawall along the coast of Sydney's harbour that aims to improve biodiversity and water quality in the area. Read more

Architecture studio Bureau de Change has covered a Cotswolds house formed of a pair of interlocking barn-style buildings in brick and larch, which has been charred for a graduated effect. Read more

The latest edition of our newsletter Dezeen Weekly includes Zaha Hadid's first project in New York City and IKEA's research lab Space10 futuristic foods including a hot dog made from algae. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly › View the full article

Lush greenery tops one half of this three-bedroom residence on the shore of Connecticut's Lake Wononscopomuc, which local studio Allee Architecture and Design created as two separate parts (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The simple steel, wood and glass frame encasing this Costa Rican holiday home was designed by Studio Saxe to keep residents exposed to the lush jungle surrounding. Read more