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The latest house in our A-Zdvent calendar of residences named after letters cantilevers from the landscape in southern Germany and has 380 acrylic cylinders puncturing its facade. Read more about House R » View the full article

The Steltman chair by twentieth century Dutch architect and designer Gerrit Rietveld has been reissued by furniture brand Rietveld Originals to mark the iconic design's fiftieth anniversary. (more...) View the full article

Spanish design studio Papila has designed a range of freestanding cabinets for the hotel industry that replace unattractive mini fridges (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Central Saint Martins fashion student Fredrik Tjærandsen has presented giant balloons that deflate to form dresses on the catwalk. Read more

French artist Mathieu Tremblin has translated scrawled graffiti into legible typography, as part of his Tag Clouds project (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Rhea Adaimi has proposed creating a Carbon Capture Facility within an abandoned London warehouse to transform pollution into products. Read more

News: Google has honoured American graphic designer Saul Bass with an animated doodle based on his iconic Hollywood title sequences and movie posters. (more...) View the full article

American firm Hoedemaker Pfeiffer used stone, wood and glass to create a main dwelling and guest house for a steep, forested site in the Pacific Northwest overlooking the ocean. Read more

Dezeen Guide: design events in Singapore, Dubai and Belgrade (pictured) feature in this month's update, along with six others taking place during October. (more...) View the full article

French fashion house Dior's flagship store in Tokyo by Japanese studio SANAA has had its interior overhauled by American architect Peter Marino (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A wooden ladder leads up to a set of white cabinets filled with animal bones, plants and a preserved tarantula in this science laboratory designed by Charles Tashima Architecture for a London primary school. Read more View the full article

News: after buildings that look like giant underpants and a stack of toilet rolls, here's a tower in Beijing that has been compared to a giant penis. (more...) View the full article

News: the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to reconsider its decision to demolish the former American Folk Art Museum next door following an outcry from architects, conservationists and critics. (more...) View the full article

This low-cost concrete block house outside Monterrey was designed and built by its owners, with support from a non-profit social housing project led by local architecture office S-AR (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Products are displayed amongst an array of colourful metal wireframes at this pharmacy in Madrid by interiors studio Stone Designs (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Invisible Studio built this mobile micro home at its woodland studio near Bath, England, for just £20,000, thanks to the use of salvaged materials and locally grown timber. Read more View the full article

IKEA will launch a collection of home accessories made from rice straw that would otherwise be burnt by India's farmers and pollute the air. Read more

China has released a directive that could put an end to the country's trend for bombastic architecture. (more…) View the full article

Toyo Ito's sculptural opera house in Taiwan features in this week's issue of Dezeen Mail, along with Zaha Hadid's final furniture collection for David Gill Gallery and Renault's new electric concept car. Read Dezeen Mail issue 326 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Lebanese-American designer Nabil Issa has launched his debut line of furniture, which includes a throne-like golden chair made from brass. Read more

A retrospective on the life and work of Le Corbusier opens today at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. This selection of drawings and paintings by the architect documents the various stages of his career, as presented in the exhibition. (more...) View the full article

Dutch designer Piet Boon has renovated a former office building in New York to create luxury apartments that borrow aesthetics from interiors in his home country (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Snøhetta, Rapt Studio and Kelly Wearstler are among eight architecture and design studios that have redesigned Max Lamb's Last Stool for Swedish furniture brand Hem to raise funds for affordable housing in Los Angeles. Read more

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with De Matos Ryan, Anchorage Museum and Priestmangoode, whose design for a capsule that will float passengers to the edge of space is pictured. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Benjamin Hubert, Studio Egret West, DSDHA and more... (more...) View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a Part-II architectural assistant at Jonathan Tuckey Design, which created a new archival space for London's Southbank Centre in 2015 featuring a mid-century shelving system that reflects the building's heritage(pictured). More › View the full article