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Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka will launch a collection of transparent polycarbonate furniture at the Kartell showroom in Milan next month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka will present a series of clear acrylic furniture for Italian brand Kartell in Milan next week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Electronics companies like Apple need to make their hardware easy for anyone to open up and take apart, according to design duo Formafantasma, who are pushing designers to prioritise recyclability following a two-year research project into e-waste. Read more View the full article

London-based Fraher Architects have completed a house extension in Islington that is wrapped in larch batons and has a flower-covered roof. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival: drops of coloured ink fall from the top of a stone staircase into a glass tank six storeys below in this installation at the V&A museum by German artist and designer Rolf Sachs (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This office in Paris by French designer Mathieu Lehanneur for advertising agency JWT features caves made from pulped paper and plants that play music. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

UK architects Foster + Partners have completed the worlds tallest tensile structure in Astana, Kazakhstan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish architects BIG have won a competition to renovate and extend an art centre in Utah with proposals that will be built from reclaimed railway sleepers. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A ridged cloak of glazing will surround the extension to an art centre in Utah proposed by Californian architects Brooks + Scarpa. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects Carmody Groarke have transformed an abandoned canal-side petrol station in north London into a temporary restaurant and events space with fluted walls. (more…) View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2013: designer Christien Meindertsma has compiled photographs of hundreds of jumpers knitted by an elderly woman into a book and organised a flashmob in her honour (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Dutch designer Tord Bootje presents a collection of work made with lace-making techniques from materials including grass and raffia at the Marsden Woo Gallery in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Shanghai studio Archi-Union used differently sized bricks to make waves across the exterior of this restaurant and members’ club at a cultural heritage park in Chengdu, China (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A 1960’s bungalow in Cambridgeshire is hidden behind a Siberian larch-clad extension with a row of gabled roofs. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the latest design from Mr Jones watches, which tells the time through numbers on the teeth of a skull, is now available at Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The British Royal Mint has commemorated professor Stephen Hawking in a new 50p coin, which references the late physicist's pioneering work on black holes. Read more

Work has restarted on the Leadenhall Building in London by architects Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Concrete canopies shaped like leaves shelter the rooms of this house in the coastal town of Alibaug, India, by SJK Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This golden library in Copenhagen by architects COBE and Transform is meant to resemble a pile of books. (more…) View the full article

The first and only built project by the late experimental architect Lebbeus Woods is the Light Pavilion, one of of three large-scale installations at Steven Holl's recently completed Sliced Porosity Block in Chengdu, China (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Most Loved: in our next exclusive movie, Janne Kyttanen explains how the the delicate flower-shaped lamp he designed in 2002 demonstrated how 3D printing could be used to create desirable objects for the home. (more…) View the full article

VDF products fair: Noun Amsterdam's colourful wall rugs called The Lips are designed by Sandra Keja Planken to add "depth, vibrancy and boldness" to interior spaces. Read more View the full article

Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Viktor Westerdahl has devised a fantasy scenario where the discovery of a new liquid energy cues construction of a remote city in the middle of the Indian Ocean. (more...) View the full article

Architecture firm Chen + Suchart Studio has added an art studio to a Phoenix area home, cladding the new building in large sheets of reflective glass and silver-hued weathering steel. Read more View the full article

This spiral staircase conceived by London designer Paul Cocksedge will feature balustrades overflowing with plants and circular spaces where employees can take time out from their work. (more...) View the full article