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These "wearable sculptures" are designed by French artist Shani Ha to be manipulated during interpretative dance performances. Read more View the full article

Swedish studio Förstberg Ling has converted a former blacksmith's workshop in Stockholm to create a light-filled family home for Petrus Palmér, co-founder of furniture brand Hem and design studio Form Us With Love. Read more View the full article

Emerging Dutch firm Unknown Architects has renovated a 200-year-old house in Leiden by stripping back its interior, and inserting built-in furniture and a twisting white staircase (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A cluster of stone and plaster-lined volumes form Think Architecture's minimalist House in a Park, which sits on a hilltop in Zurich, Switzerland. Read more

Dezeen is giving away five copies of Where They Create: Japan, a book documenting the workspaces of some of Japan's leading creatives, including Kengo Kuma, Nendo, Tadao Ando and Toyo Ito. Read more View the full article

American architect Jeanne Gang has been listed on Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people for 2019. Read more

London architecture firm A-Zero has completed an oak frame house that incorporates the steel frame of an old cow shed in a rural area near Leighton Buzzard, England (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

World Heritage Corb: next in our series on the 17 Le Corbusier buildings that have been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List is Maison La Roche-Jeanneret in Paris – designed to provide a home for the architect's brother and a separate residence and gallery for a friend with a collection of cubist art (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

East London design brand Hulger has contributed a chandelier made from its new Baby Plumen light bulbs to the Stepney Green Design Collection curated by Dezeen. (more…) View the full article

Industrial designer Yves Behar of Fuseproject has unveiled a television set-top box that includes a remote control with no buttons (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

These glowing circular swings have been installed by Höweler + Yoon Architecture to brighten up a patch of Boston parkland and to encourage children to play outside the confines of the playground (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Swedish furniture giant Ikea and Danish design brand Hay have released a short teaser film that shows the materials to be used in their upcoming collaborative furniture and homeware range (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Built on a steep site in Spain, the seventeenth house in our A-Zdvent calendar consists of three intersecting volumes arranged around a central circulation space. Read more about Q-House » View the full article

LUO Studio has designed a tiny 9.6-square-metre office in Beijing, with seven movable desks so that it can be transformed from an office into an amphitheatre-style presentation room. Read more

A vibrator that can be worn as a necklace, Lego's new building blocks aimed at the architecture community and Rebecca Litchfield's photographic project chronicling the decay of abandoned Soviet architecture (pictured), feature in Dezeen Mail issue 215. Click through for the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. View the full article

Architect Silvia Allori has overhauled a 1970s flat in Florence to create her own home and workspace, featuring furniture that folds down from the walls and a shiny gold curtain that hides mess (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: trainers with rubber loops on the soles to give extra spring have won the product design prize at a Swiss design awards (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

More from Dutch design studio Tjep. at Ventura Lambrate in Milan next week: this time a collection of wooden furniture including a chair with legs like ice skates (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: architects and designers are invited to submit concepts to transform an abandoned paper factory in Bologna, Italy, into a high school and a business incubator for start-ups (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Brooklyn design firm Studio Tack has revived an art-deco landmark in San Francisco's emerging Tenderloin district, creating the art-forward Tilden Hotel. Read more

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Powerhouse Company, Foster + Partners and Aesop, whose retail space in Sydney is pictured. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Alison Brooks Architects, PearsonLloyd, ACME and more... (more...) View the full article

A burnout culture of "sleep is for the weak" must be stopped in design education for the sake of students' mental health say #DezeenChat participants. Read more

This week on Dezeen, the legacies of prolific fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld and Italian designer Alessandro Mendini were celebrated after the two iconic figures passed away. Read more

Greenery-filled courtyards and waffle ceilings bring light to the interiors of this concrete restaurant, which Vector Architects has erected near the shore of Beidaihe, China. Read more

The Imperial War Museum has a new archive in Cambridgeshire, England, called the IWM Paper Store, which is the most airtight building in the world. Read more