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Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: the Russian pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale presents possibilities for the re-use of vacant factories in former industrial towns across Russia. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: London's first multi-brand sample sale will take place from 4 to 6 March 2016, with 20 top furniture, lighting and accessories brands offering discounts of up to 70 per cent off (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

In this movie, we look back at this year's Samsung Mobile Design Competition, a collaboration between Samsung and Dezeen, which challenged designers to come up with innovative new mobile accessory and wallpaper designs for Galaxy devices. Read more View the full article

Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has trapped a crystal in a perfume bottle for crystal brand Swarovski. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch architects UNStudio have unveiled designs for a Singapore skyscraper with chunks missing from its facade. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Norm Architects has worked alongside furniture brands Menu and Dux to curate an installation that resembles eclectic living quarters as part of Stockholm Design Week. Read more View the full article

What if plastic polluting the seas could be harvested by a retired fishing trawler, then transformed into chairs by an onboard factory? (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A brass table with a gently rippled surface provides the reading area of this Japanese library dedicated to the sea and designed by Swedish studio ETAT arkitekter (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

British architects Liddicoat & Goldhill constructed their own north London home using black engineering bricks and slabs of white marble. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Italian architect Renzo Piano says his London skyscraper, The Shard, will be loved by the public, because “it will be accessible, because it is transparent, understandable and not mysterious” – The Telegraph The public will be able to access restaurants and a viewing gallery at the top of Europe’s tallest building, which fellow architect and friend of Piano, Richard Rogers suggests “will be one of Renzo’s major works [and] one of his major successes.” Piano believes that skyscrapers such as The Shard represent the most responsible approach to tackling the issue of urban sprawl, stating: “It is more socially correct to intensify the city and free up space …

The View from The Shard tourist attraction inside Renzo Piano's 310-metre London skyscraper opens to the public today and these new shots by photographer Nick Guttridge show just how tall the building is compared with the rest of London's skyline (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architecture firm Haworth Tompkins has installed a bright red auditorium amongst the brutalist concrete of London's National Theatre (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New York firms Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rockwell Group have completed The Shed, a cultural centre in Manhattan's Hudson Yards, featuring a retractable roof that can be moved to form a performance area. Read more

Self-contained micro homes are being installed inside vacant buildings across London as part of an initiative called The SHED Project, which features in the latest movie from our Dezeen x MINI Living video series. Read more View the full article

Milan 2016: products made from a new material that uses recycled poo are presented in darkened rooms with crap-covered floors at The Shit Evolution exhibition curated by the Museo Della Merda (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival 2016: a "liberating" adult nappy, poo tableware and an event space furnished with manure are among the offerings at one London Design Festival exhibition (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Alex Cochrane Architects has created a space for shoppers at London department store Selfridges to find peace and quiet amid the bustling emporium (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Original features of a historic building in Downtown Detroit, like travertine floors and plaster ceiling details, were preserved during its conversion into a hotel. Read more View the full article

ASH NYC co-founder Ari Heckman explains how The Siren Hotel recalls Detroit's glamorous past in this video produced by Dezeen for the AHEAD Awards. Read more

A former nunnery in Milan's city centre is now home to The Sister Hotel, which creatives Samuele Savio, David Lopez Quincoces and Fanny Bauer Grung have completed with eclectic interiors. Read more

UK designer Luke Twigger has created a range of skull-shaped containers with cushions for brains. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Feathers fly around this 15 metre-long tank installed by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.Called The Snow, the installation is part of an exhibition called Sensing Nature that continues until 7 November.See all our stories about Tokujin Yoshioka »Here’s some more information from Yoshioka:In recent years, I have been studying [...]</img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London studio Aberrant Architecture designed a city of wooden towers for an exhibition at Liverpool’s Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A former sailor's lodge was overhauled to create this boutique hotel in downtown Portland, Oregon, which includes hostel-style bunkbeds and compact rooms, aimed at design-conscious travellers on a budget. Read more View the full article

London studio Loop.pH mimicked the molecular structures of carbon atoms to generate the form of this illuminated wiry dome (+ movie). (more...) View the full article