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Our most popular story this week has been a cliffside home overlooking a loch that mixes silvery larch wood with traditional Scottish stone. Read on from more architecture and design highlights from the past seven days plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

This week has been all about the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics, of course! (more…) View the full article

This week we focussed on additive manufacturing with the launch of Print Shift, our one-off print-on-demand magazine all about 3D printing. More highlights from the week follow, plus Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

This week we reported on rumours that Apple is designing an electric car, the 76 nominees for Designs of the Year 2015 and a garden folly "dedicated to smoking" (pictured). Read on to catch up with the latest architecture, interiors and design news, plus our track of the week. (more…) View the full article

Previews of products for Milan's design week have dominated our design coverage over the last seven days, including furniture and lighting collections by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Daniel Libeskind, and Richard Hutten. Read on for more architecture and design news, plus our Dezeen Music Project featured track. (more...) View the full article

This week a boat-shaped apartment washed up on the roof of the Southbank Centre in London, dRMM completed a shimmering golden wedding chapel in the British seaside town of Blackpool and we showed images of Renzo Piano’s new wing at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Our most popular stories featured a precariously cantilevered museum in the Alps and a playground pavilion in Copenhagen with funhouse mirrors covering its gabled ends. Meanwhile fuseproject unveiled a tablet version of their One Laptop Per Child project, Nendo previewed the new work they’ll show during Maison & Objet in Paris next week and Konstantin Grcic unveiled his new school chair to …

This week on Dezeen we published an interview with industrial designer Marc Newson about his new camera for Pentax. You can also watch highlights from Fabio Novembre’s talk about his work and inspirations plus changes in the Italian design scene on Dezeen Screen. Our most popular and most controversial story this week featured Daniel Libeskind’s family of curved towers in Singapore and readers were angered by a stark concrete church on the side of a sacred mountain in China that they claim steals ideas from all of their favourite architects Japanese designers Nendo completed a menswear store that imitates an office while Norwegian architects Eriksen Skajaa created an …

The International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York was overshadowed this week by news that one designer had been arrested while installing his project in the city and accused of “planting false bombs”, which our readers labelled a “titanic over-reaction” and indicative of the “hysteria and squareness of NY authorities”. (more…) View the full article

This week we reported on the shortlisted designs for London's latest bridge across the River Thames, Egypt's masterplan for a new privately funded capital city (pictured), and an ongoing legal dispute between Nike and its former designers. Read on to catch up with the latest architecture and design news, plus our track of the week. (more…)

This week we launched our Designed in Hackney initiative to highlight design talent in the east London borough of Hackney, one of the five host boroughs for the London 2012 Olympic Games and home to Dezeen’s offices. More details here. Our most popular story was an extension to a warehouse in Sheffield that looks like another building’s been added on top, which happens to be by Hackney architects Project Orange. An Amsterdam branch of Starbucks inside a former bank was our most-pinned story on Pinterest. Tom Dixon unveiled his plans for new show MOST in Milan next month, including Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox, just as Montreal designer Craig Alun Smith revealed his…

The big news this week is Apple bringing its hardware and software design teams together under the direction of Jonathan Ive (above), a move our readers think is “long overdue” and they hope will mean the end of “that nasty skeuomorphism fetish” where software interfaces are styled to resemble leather and wood. (more…) View the full article

This week Zaha Hadid completed a concrete building for the American University of Beirut. Read on for more architecture and design highlights from the past seven days plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

This week the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas included a car that drives itself, a vibrating fork that warns dieters when it's time to stop eating (above) and the unveiling of the Pebble smartwatch. Scroll on for more highlights from Dezeen plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

This week Frank Gehry responded to criticism of his architecture by wielding his middle finger to gathered journalists (pictured), and we reported on the Chinese president's call for an end to "weird architecture" in China. Read on for more architecture and design highlights, plus our track of the week. (more...) View the full article

A smog-removal machine and a modular phone concept (pictured) are among the highlights from Dutch Design Week, which we've been covering for the past seven days. More from Eindhoven, plus this week's architecture and design news and our Dezeen Music Project featured track follow. (more...) View the full article

This week on Dezeen our most popular story has been a series of illustrations featuring houses based on works by famous artists including Roy Lichtenstein, Damien Hirst and Marcel Duchamp. Read on for more architecture and design highlights from the past seven days plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Apple launched a new mobile payment service, the iPhone 6 and its eagerly anticipated watch this week, prompting strong reactions from the design community. Read on for more architecture and design highlights, plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

This week Renzo Piano completed a minimal monastery at the site of Le Corbusier’s chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut, Daniel Libeskind added an angular extension to Dresden’s Museum of Military History and UNStudio designed a cantilevered concrete observation tower. Rafael Viñoly talked to us about his new arts centre in Colchester and the most viewed story of the week was a simple house with a four metre-high door by Archiplan. Also this week, Yves Béhar of fuseproject designed a tricycle with built-in storage and Sam Hecht of Industrial Facility created a hand carved rubber pen with a gold nib. The RIBA Future Trends Survey contained some concerning statistics …

This week Dezeen has been focussed on shoe design. Scroll on for more highlights in architecture and design from the last seven days plus Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen broke the three biggest stories of the London Design Festival this week: the news that graphic designer Peter Saville won the London Design Medal and is working on a new visual identity for Kanye West; and the announcement that the V&A museum has acquired the first 3D-printed gun. Read on for more of this week's best bits... (more...) View the full article

We've been soaking up the sun at Design Miami this week, where a previously unbuilt house by Charlotte Perriand (pictured) and 3D-printed wearable sculptures are among the projects on display. Read on for more of the week's top architecture and design news. (more...) View the full article

This week on Dezeen we’ve featured a drive-through airport, a report on the next industrial revolution and two ways to tackle cancer. (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen we published analysis by Dezeen reader Salomé Francpourmoi, which questioned whether there was a bias towards white males in our features. You can have your say on the gender and race issue by leaving comments at the end of the post. Meanwhile, a zig-zagging extension by Bjarke Ingels Group won a competition to convert a warehouse in Basel and our most-viewed story featured a library near Beijing that’s covered in firewood. Also popular were a pointy apartment block in Japan by EASTERN Design Office and a garden pavilion made from trees that will take 100 years to complete, which one of our readers described as “a lovely gift to future folk.” Fas…

This week Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto (above) was announced as the designer of this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion and we rounded up his key past projects. Scroll on for more highlights from the week plus our favourite new track from Dezeen Music Project. (more...) View the full article

This week Dezeen travelled to New York, where Adidas was launching its latest running shoe, and featured photographs documenting mid-century residential architecture in New Zealand (pictured). Read on to catch up with the latest architecture and design news, plus our track of the week. (more…) View the full article