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London designer Anthony Dickens has created a snaking, modular lighting system made of bamboo and paper (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Dutch designers Oatmeal Studio have hacked IKEA furniture to create a pop-up restaurant where diners pick their own tableware and cut their own tablecloths (+ slideshow.) (more…) View the full article

The latest project by Japanese studio Torafu Architects may look like a standard floating shelf, but it actually contains a slim secret drawer that can be opened with magnets. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: construction workers made this furniture on show at London’s Gallery Fumi, but Brazilian architect Marcio Kogan of Studio MK27 has added small details to embellish each piece. (more…) View the full article

News: French practice bureau faceB has won a competition to design a bridge across the Seine in Paris with plans for a wobbling crossing of stretched steel cables. (more…) View the full article

Danish studio 3XN has revealed the first photographs of its whirlpool-shaped aquarium under construction in Copenhagen. (more…) View the full article

We're taking a look back at our most widely read stories for each month of the year and July's favourite was a speed boat by Zaha Hadid, plus the news was full of the London 2012 Olympics. (more...) View the full article

London studio alma-nac has staggered the floors of this extension to a 2.3 metre-wide terraced house in south London to help bring natural light in through a sloping roof. (more...) View the full article

French design duo Cauboyz built a wall of illuminated words to make this typography-inspired music video (+ movies). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: French architect Jean Nouvel has set out his vision for the office environments of the future in a huge installation at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile this week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This two-storey extension by French architect Loïc Picquet converts an old farm building into a rural guesthouse in the Alsace region of France (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: New York design studio Atopia has moved to defuse the row over the authorship of the 2012 Olympic cauldron, saying: "we have never accused Thomas Heatherwick of plagiarism". (more...) View the full article

Our August World Design Guide update features Brazilian Design Week in São Paulo (pictured) and CU (Creatives Unfold) in Bangkok, plus we've added five new events. (more...) View the full article

Industrial designer Marc Newson has updated his clothing line for Dutch fashion brand G-Star RAW. (more...) View the full article

News: Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled its design for the first of several new stadiums that will hold football matches during the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup. (more...) View the full article

These hyper-realistic renderings by designer Michael Samoriz depict a cafe proposed for Ukraine with wooden beams criss-crossing over its ceiling. (more...) View the full article

Twitter's headquarters in a 1937 San Francisco building features brightly coloured furniture, padded booths, games rooms and an enormous roof terrace (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2014: the wooden base of this sofa by Swedish firm Note Design Studio extends outwards to become a side table. (more...) View the full article

News: international architecture firms IND and Powerhouse Company have won a competition to design a 100-metre-tall broadcast and observation tower in Turkey with a design that resembles a continuous ribbon. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: British fashion designer Paul Smith has applied his iconic striped fabrics to a selection of furniture by legendary Danish designer Hans J. Wegner, which will be presented in Milan next month. (more...) View the full article

Spanish architect Carles Enrich has inserted a plywood box beneath the vaulted ceilings of an early 20th-century apartment in Barcelona to create a new bathroom and kitchen unit. (more...) View the full article

Six timber boxes protrude from the sides of this house in the hills north of Barcelona by Alventosa Morell Arquitectes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Aberdeenshire Council in Scotland has commissioned local-born textile designer Donna Wilson to create a tartan fabric that celebrates the area's craft heritage. (more...) View the full article

News: the second proposal from Danish architecture firm BIG to extend the Kimball Art Center in Park City, Utah, has been thrown out by planning authorities for failing to meet strict local preservation guidelines. (more...) View the full article

News: Mercedes-Benz has unveiled an autonomous lorry that will be able to drive itself across Europe's roads within the next 10 years (+ movies). (more...) View the full article