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Alfonso Architects have designed a church in Tampa, Florida using the Fibonacci sequence to generate the proportions. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

San Francisco architect Stanley Saitowitz has completed a museum in Florida, USA, which is wrapped in a perforated metal skin and cantilevers out from its glazed base. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Prague-based Studio Muon have completed a hair salon in Brno, Czech Republic, that looks like a cross between a warehouse and a dungeon (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A woven net of bamboo creates a curved suspended ceiling inside this restaurant in Hangzhou, China by architects FCJZ. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Eunhee Jo has designed a tactile speaker with a fabric control panel and a speaker that moves to the music (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: hundreds of intricate models by emerging Japanese architect Akihisa Hirata are pinned onto the looping walls of this installation at the Architecture Foundation in London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Indian design studio Paul Matter has released its debut collection of lighting, including lamps with rounded shades made from beaten brass (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Glass walls and perforated metal screens help to blur the boundaries between inside and outside for this house in Beijing by architecture studio TAOA. Read more View the full article

This renovated office in China by Vector Architects features plant-covered walls and a bright orange glass meeting room (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The stone base of a former mill has been repurposed as a raised plinth for house in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, designed by TAP Architects. Read more View the full article

DMY Berlin 2010: designers For Use/Numen of Vienna and Zagreb wove a web of adhesive tape around scaffolding at the DMY Berlin venue in the Tempelhof former airport last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These lamp shades wrapped in adhesive tape are by Italian designer Sylvia Pichler for design brand Skitsch. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese designers Torafu Architects have designed a set of paper hooks that like curled pieces of adhesive tape. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Portuguese studio CVDB Arquitectos has created a tapestry museum with vaulted ceilings, marble walls and funnel-shaped skylights inside a twelfth-century hospital building (photos by Fernando Guerra + slideshow). (more...) View the full article

American architecture studio Thomas Phifer and Partners included a pointy chapel among the tiny black buildings that form this residence in a clearing in Upstate New York. Read more

Software engineer and US presidential candidate Akiva Leffert has designed a set of IKEA-themed tarot cards that tell your future using assembly manual illustrations. Read more View the full article

Slideshow: projecting window frames cast dramatic shadows across the sandy red walls of this university in the Moroccan desert. (more…) View the full article

The windows of this extension to a 1920s bungalow in Tasmania sit within faceted timber reveals, contrasting with the white-painted weatherboard walls (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A small, neglected warehouse built in the 1850s has been renovated by Tasou Associates to create the light-filled 9 Jeffrey's Place office in London. Read more

French designer Patrick Norguet has designed a reusable cup for McDonald’s that makes scalding hot coffee easier to hold. (more…) View the full article

Spanish studio Tatabi looked to ancient Greece to find influences for the branding and packaging design of a gourmet popcorn company (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Traditional Japanese floor mats define the proportions of this house in Niigata, designed by Tokmoto Architectures Room as a strict grid of squares (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architecture firm Caruso St John has completed a £45 million renovation of London's Tate Britain art gallery, which includes a spiral staircase descending to new underground classrooms. (more...) View the full article

A subterranean shaft created by 19th-century engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel is now accessible to the public for the first time in 150 years, thanks to a new staircase by architecture studio Tate Harmer (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This set of images by photographer Iwan Baan provides a first look inside Herzog & de Meuron's extension to the Tate Modern art gallery, set to open next month in London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article