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Episode II of Italian designer Luca Nichetto's 50/50 collection for De La Espada will be presented during New York Design Week this week as part of a specially designed exhibition. (more...) View the full article

Guests at this hotel near the Spanish city of Alicante stay in prefabricated cabins, which are raised off the ground to reduce their impact on the rugged landscape and enable views over the adjacent valley (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Product news: this footstool by French designer Benjamin Graindorge for Ligne Roset is nipped-in with lengths of cord. (more...) View the full article

An American artist has turned the remains of legendary Mexican architect Luis Barragán into a diamond, and is offering to exchange the gem for the architect's professional archive, which is currently housed on the Vitra campus (+ slideshow). (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

Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: a capsule exhibition within the Biennial's main show focuses on the future of Chicago, with proposals including a peninsula on the Chicago River and a landscape of sunken spaces. (more…) View the full article

An exclusive and wide-ranging interview with Christo, and a renovation of a brutalist Roman Catholic cathedral in Bristol feature in the latest edition of our newsletter Dezeen Weekly. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly › View the full article

Small windows scattered across the facade of this house extension outside Melbourne by Australian practice Wolveridge Architects limit the amount of direct sunlight entering the building (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

French studio Atelier Fernandez & Serres has completed a cultural centre outside Nantes featuring pale stone walls and sloping roof planes that echo the forms of neighbouring houses (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Piers Taylor's firm Invisible Studio has added a pair of woodland maintenance buildings to the National Arboretum in Gloucestershire, England, using only trees felled in the routine maintenance of the estate (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of a limited edition digital artwork by Japanese artist Yoko Ono. (more...) View the full article

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

Mexican design studio Peca has created a collection of furniture with structures based on the patterns found in poetry. Read more

Our job of the week is a call for junior architects at XTEN Architecture in Los Angeles, USA. Their California-based projects include NakaHouse (pictured above), a remodel of a 1960s hillside house built just below the famous Hollywood sign. Visit the ad for full details or browse many other architecture and design job opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Bosske Architecture has completed a dairy farm in Northcliffe, Australia, featuring a curving red structure that merges the shapes of several typical agricultural building forms. Read more

News: Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron have designed a cylindrical skyscraper as part of a nine-hectare masterplan proposed for London's Canary Wharf. (more...) View the full article

Five cliff-top buildings feature walls that fold in on themselves to frame views and offer privacy in this South Korean holiday resort by Atelier Chang (+ 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

Product news: these pendant lamps by German designer Oliver Schnick have raised collars that direct light up to the ceiling as well as down to the floor. (more...) View the full article

Watch our talk with Coalesse about designing office spaces that people want to work in, rather than have to work in, live from Steelcase's WorkLife Center in London. Read more

Interieur 2012: Studio Makkink & Bey built a house of scaffolding and stairs to represent the transient, roaming lifestyle of the future as their contribution to the Future Primitives series at last month’s Interieur design biennale in Kortrijk, Belgium. (more…) View the full article

Berlin-based product designer Mark Braun has created his first watch, with the Metro for fine watchmakers Nomos Glashütte (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Dark surfaces and an array of warm materials helped Studio Four create a cosy series of rooms behind the black facade of this Melbourne family home. Read more

Israeli engineer and systems developer Izhar Gafni has invented a cardboard bicycle that’s strong, waterproof and costs less than £10 to manufacture (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

White vertical fins clad the glazed exterior of this Salt Lake City courthouse by Thomas Phifer and Partners, shading the interior from direct sunlight without restricting the views from inside (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article