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German designer Markus Kayser has built a 3D-printing machine that uses sunlight and sand to make glass objects in the desert. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Metropolitan University graduate Fotis Evans has designed this display system for the book shop at Somerset House in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Foster + Partners have completed a new shopping centre that combines high-end boutiques with independent local food and craft markets on the site of a historic city marketplace in Abu Dhabi. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

As a needle passes over this vinyl globe by Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki, it plays folk music and national anthems from around the world (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Barcelona studio NOEM has designed a home for a film director and science-fiction fan that resembles a spaceship raised above its forested site in a suburb of Madrid (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A spiralling concrete staircase winds up through this empty tower by Marra + Yeh Architects of Sydney and Malaysia. (more…) View the full article

An exhibition featuring architectural compositions made of household objects by Canadian artist Dave Trautrimas will open at LE Gallery in Toronto later this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Standard's first UK hotel opens this summer, featuring colourful interiors designed by Shawn Hausman to contrast "the greyness of London". Read more

Melbourne interior design studio The Stella Collective has designed this Sydney office interior to resemble a luxury penthouse or boutique hotel rather than a corporate workspace. Read more View the full article

In this movie, artist Matthew Mazzotta says the success of The Storefront Theater, which won him Architecture Project of the Year at the inaugural Dezeen Awards, comes down to the way the local community has made use of it. Read more

In this movie, Dezeen Awards jury chair Michel Rojkind explains why Matthew Mazzotta's modest, retractable The Storefront Theater beat projects by leading international firms to be crowned Architecture Project of the Year 2018. Read more

Los Angeles architects Kyle and Liz von Hasseln have set up a business that produces 3D-printed sugar sculptures for wedding cakes, table centrepieces and pie toppings. (more...) View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Shing Tat Chung has created a superstitious robot that trades on the stock market according to the lucky numbers it generates. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Italian brand 3D Surface have launched their inaugural collection of relief wall panels. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some photographs of Dezeen’s new offices at The Surgery in north London, designed by London studio Post-Office. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house constructed within the Barbican gallery in London by architects Carmody Groarke contains an exhibition of Surrealist art. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: in this podcast recorded in Milan, Aurel Aebi of multidisciplinary design practice atelier oï describes the scenography they created for Swiss bathroom brand Laufen, while designers Roberto Palomba and Toan Nguyen talk about their latest products. (more…) View the full article

Designer and researcher Neri Oxman's Mediated Matter group at MIT Media Lab has designed an artificial apiary that creates a constant spring-like environment for bees. Read more View the full article

A chair designed by American recording artist and producer Pharrell Williams will be on show at Gallerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris next week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects Herzog & de Meuron have uncovered three underground concrete tanks at the Tate Modern gallery in London to create new spaces for art and performance, which open this week (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Japanese architect Tadao Ando has added an auditorium with a curving concrete interior to the Palazzo Grassi - a contemporary arts centre inside an eighteenth-century palace in Venice (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Our pop-up Christmas design store The Temporium has opened at 65 Monmouth Street in Seven Dials, Covent Garden in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Our pop-up design store The Temporium has opened in London! (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Threads and glue replace joints and screws in the furniture that emerges from a custom-made machine designed by Royal College of Art graduate Anton Alvarez (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Japanese studio nano Architects has inserted a sunken circular living room into a 1960s apartment in Fukuoka (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article