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Lofty interiors and a folded black steel staircase feature behind the larch-clad walls of this gabled house, designed by Karawitz and situated outside Paris. Read more View the full article

Flower Michelin Architects has rennovated and extended a house on the west coast of Scotland, adding a charred shingle-clad gabled cabin that references traditional Scottish Blackhouses. Read more

This home surrounded by lush greenery in Mexico City pays homage to the aesthetics of modernism, and includes raw materials such as volcanic stone, exposed concrete and steel columns. Read more 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

Cloud-like ceilings and neon signage are just some of the playful features that design studio FormRoom employed to create this Instagram-friendly ice cream store in central London. Read more

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

To celebrate Earth Day, we're looking at ways you can be sustainable beyond the grave. We've picked out five eco-friendly designs for the deceased, including an egg-shaped burial pod and a cremation urn made of sewage water. Read more

British manufacturer Aston Martin has released images of a new carbon-fibre racing car that the brand says offers hints of the design it will roll out for future road vehicles (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Pink, purple and yellow walls divide up the Casa TEC 205 residence in Monterrey, which architecture studio Moneo Brock designed as an "homage" to the work of the country's legendary architect Luis Barragán. Read more View the full article

Architect Sam Jacob has unveiled plans to convert a former east-London pub into a home for himself and a nursery – with Postmodern touches including curving facades and assorted window shapes. (more…) View the full article

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

Dezeen promotion: a new course for digital designers, artists and makers is due to start at the École des Ponts ParisTech next year (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Construction is almost complete on a new contemporary art museum in California by US studios SO-IL and Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, featuring a massive white aluminium canopy supported by skinny white columns (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

NeoCon 2016: London studio Industrial Facility has designed a modular seating system for US furniture company Herman Miller that hooks together to turn "a communal gathering area into a lecture theatre". (more…) View the full article

These autonomous lamps by Dutch designer Bob de Graaf seek out human companions then follow them around, and go in search of the darkest spots in the house ( + movie). (more...) View the full article

Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled designs for a complex of towers in Bratislava's city centre (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has combined elements of his previous structures with traditional Indonesian craftwork to create a shop and restaurant venue in Hong Kong – his first project in the city (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A bandage pack containing a bone marrow donor registry kit has won a White Pencil at the D&AD Awards (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Maison&Objet 2015: Danish design brand Menu has launched a soft furnishings collection produced in Nepal, to offer Nepali craftswomen an alternative to working in the sex trade (+ slideshow). (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

University of Westminster student San Kim presented a line of inflatable couture for his graduate fashion collection inspired by Freudian theories of psychosexual development. Read more

Curving concrete walls frame secluded meeting rooms along the central thoroughfare of this architecture faculty building at Bond University in Queensland, Australia, by Peter Cook's architecture firm CRAB Studio (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

British furniture manufacturer Very Good & Proper has acquired furniture brand Isokon Plus in a bid to develop both companies whilst retaining their "distinctive identities". Read more

The inaugural Desert X art festival is underway in Southern California, where visitors are using Instagram to share images of installations including an entirely mirrored cabin and a seemingly infinite tunnel into the earth. Read more View the full article

A combined bookshelf and staircase creates a small library with interchangeable shelving at this apartment in the Ukraine by architect Alex Bykov (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article