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Designers and architects were wrapping materials over and around things one year ago, like these wooden plywood ribs that appear to drape the ceiling and bar of a coffee shop in Poland (above). (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with MAD, G Star Raw and Philips, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Wikinson Eyre, Wanda Creative, Carpenters Workshop Gallery and more… (more…) View the full article

Hackney designer Paul Cocksedge has launched an invisible bookend to find out if people will buy an object for its function rather than its appearance. (more…) View the full article

News: construction is set to begin next month on the world’s tallest building in Changsha, China, which will be completed in just 90 days. (more…) View the full article

News: British industrial designer Kenneth Grange has become Sir Kenneth Grange after receiving a knighthood for services to design in the New Year Honours. (more...) View the full article

The View from The Shard tourist attraction inside Renzo Piano's 310-metre London skyscraper opens to the public today and these new shots by photographer Nick Guttridge show just how tall the building is compared with the rest of London's skyline (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A tubular steel slide plummets through four storeys inside this penthouse apartment in New York by architect David Hotson (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Two commercial buildings in Winnipeg have been converted into an apartment block with mirrored balconies that stick out like open drawers. (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Domaine de Boisbuchet in south-west France to offer the chance to win a place on an architecture and design workshop this summer (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Italian design brand Driade has officially opened its new Milan showroom by David Chipperfield – one of the British architect's first projects as the company's artistic director (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: UK architecture watchdog the Architects Registration Board has been described as "crackers" and "pathetic" after the body gave Dezeen 14 days to amend an article describing John Pawson as an architect (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Paul Smith, LAN and Coop Himmelb(l)au, whose winter sports resort in a Chinese quarry is pictured. Plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with FR-EE Fernando Romero Enterprise, Populous, the Royal College of Art and more... (more...) View the full article

Concrete canopies shaped like leaves shelter the rooms of this house in the coastal town of Alibaug, India, by SJK Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen has teamed up with online design store Clippings.com to curate a digital pop-up shop full of gift ideas for Christmas. (more...) View the full article

News: a redesigned accident and emergency department by London studio PearsonLloyd has been found to reduce aggression and violence by 50 percent. (more...) View the full article

The next letter in our A-Zdvent calendar is U, for Dutch architecture firm UNStudio. Pictured is Galleria Centercity, a department store in South Korea, and the architects have also recently completed a shopping centre in China with over 42,000 shiny silver balls attached to its facade. See more architecture by UNStudio » View the full article

The faceted forms of these 3D-printed wireframe bowls and vessels by French designer Michaël Malapert are inspired by the Japanese art of origami. (more...) View the full article

London retailer Heal's has released its first own-brand collection of textiles in four decades (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Our next interactive slideshow features the most recent products by Nordic architects and designers for Danish brand Muuto. (more...) View the full article

The mountain landscape of coastal Mexico provides an idyllic setting for this red concrete house by Mexican architect David Pedroza Castañeda (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: a cultural centre in Arnhem covered in a dense pattern of pale concrete mullions by Rotterdam firm Neutelings Riedijk Architects has won the award for the Netherlands' Best Building of the Year 2014. (more...) View the full article

This long and narrow brick house outside Budapest, by Foldes Architects, integrates a 17-metre-long library wall that accommodates the owners' expansive book collection (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: American architect Richard Meier has unveiled his design for a 163-metre-high skyscraper that is already under construction in the Taiwanese city of Taichung. (more...) View the full article

News: more than half of employees prefer a private work space, while open-plan office workers often experience too many distractions to work effectively, according to new data. (more...) View the full article

Swedish car brand Volvo is launching a prototype cycling helmet that offers two-way communication between the wearer and nearby drivers to help prevent accidents (+ movie). (more…) View the full article