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Narrowly spaced steel louvres wrap around the exterior of this extension to a house in Beijing, providing privacy and creating linear patterns of light and shadow throughout the minimal white interior (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2016: rounded trays extend from the sides of these bathroom fixtures by German designer Sebastian Herkner for Italian brand Ex.t. (more…) View the full article

Anders Berensson Architects has unveiled conceptual plans for Stockholm's tallest building – a 133-metre wooden skyscraper covered in numbers, which would be erected on top of a 1960s car park in the city centre. (more…) View the full article

An oval reading room with stepped shelving and a display room with tree-trunk-shaped columns are among the spaces designed by Shanghai studio XL-Muse for this bookshop in Hangzhou, China (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London creative agency Studio Mills has completed a Manhattan store for online watch brand Larsson & Jennings, featuring a cantilevered display counter and a bar serving typical Swedish refreshments (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Brazilian architect Isay Weinfeld has been chosen to design the interior for New York's The Four Seasons restaurant when it relocates from its iconic Seagram Building home. (more…) View the full article

Emil Eve Architects has paired original details with contemporary finishes in this loft apartment, which it created inside a Victorian warehouse building in Shoreditch, east London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

RooyDaad Architects created this monochrome house as a weekend retreat from their practice in Tehran, and based its design on a housing model by Le Corbusier (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Estonian interior architecture students designed this floating timber pavilion to provide a shelter, sauna and campfire for visitors to the Soomaa National Park wetlands during flooding (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The kitchen, dining and living room of this apartment in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius features grey-painted walls and black-metal details, which are offset by colourful cabinets and furniture. Read more View the full article

As it's New Year's Eve, we've found 10 of the best bar interiors from Dezeen's Pinterest boards, including a Shanghai punch bar with bamboo-lined booths and a Tokyo venue covered in colourful electrical cables. Read more View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a model-shop manager at Richard Meier's New York architecture firm, which opened its own model museum in 2015. View the full article

A cut-out mountainscape, wobbly jellyfish vases and tables that melt into bowls are among the items exhibited by Japanese brand Nendo at its Milan design week exhibition. Read more View the full article

US studio Edmonds + Lee Architects has used voids, large windows and white-washed interiors to open up this San Francisco property, breaking away from the tightly packed "pancake-style" layout of its neighbours. Read more View the full article

British studio Design Engine has won an invited competition against Foster + Partners to design the new UK headquarters for Formula One car designers Gordon Murray Design. Read more View the full article

Rammed earth and glass form the walls of this house by US studio Feldman Architecture, which was designed for a hilly property in an eco-friendly residential development near the ocean. Read more View the full article

This week, Dezeen was in Venice for the architecture biennale, where we spoke to its curators Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, reviewed the British Pavilion, and had screenings of our drone documentary, Elevation. Read more View the full article

This captioned movie shows a shape-shifting wheel created by DARPA and Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Centre. Read more View the full article

Heading to Miami next week? We've compiled a list of exhibitions to check out during the city's annual art week, alongside the major Art Basel and Design Miami events. Read more

The founders of New York magazine Sight Unseen have used a basic, web-based design software tool to produce a pair of two-tone rugs for Swedish brand Kasthall, previewing at Stockholm Design Week. Read more

A nursing professor and explorer have designed a portable life-support system that they claim allows divers to eat, sleep and decompress underwater. Read more

A series of gabled, brickwork volumes arranged around a grassy courtyard form this house in Guayaquil, Ecuador, designed by Chilean firm Felipe Assadi Arquitectos. Read more

Eindhoven-based designer Thomas Vailly explores turning sunflower crop waste into bio-materials to make sustainable products from insulation panels to iPhone cases. Read more

Reina & Asociados has transformed the vaulted brick cellars of the Palacio del Rey don Pedro at Seville's Royal Alcázar into an exhibition space. Read more

New York design studio Trueing has intended to put "an interesting spin on the familiar" with the bold hand-formed coloured glass chain links that feature in its latest collection of lighting. Read more