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This house near Mexico City by local office MMX Studio comprises an assortment of exposed concrete buildings arranged around small gardens and courtyards (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New York designer Shaina Garfield has created an eco-friendly coffin that uses fungus to biodegrade the body so that it decomposes quickly and fertilises the surrounding soil. Read more

Stockholm 2013: French-Dutch design duo Färg & Blanche will present a chair that can be dressed up in an assortment of garments at Stockholm Design Week, which gets underway today (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

British supercar brand McLaren has released images of its track-focused yet road-legal 675LT that will debut at the Geneva Motor Show next week (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

High-end fashion department store Dover Street Market has opened a beauty-focused branch at the heart of Paris, where products are displayed inside towering textured columns. Read more

The fiddly ritual of assembling IKEA furniture is set to become a thing of the past as the furniture giant introduces products that snap together "like a jigsaw puzzle". Read more View the full article

Polish design duo New Craft has created a collection of hand-blown glass vessels with copper "collars" that provide a reflection of the plants inside (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This elevated walkway by Glenn Howells Architects meanders through the treetops at the National Arboretum in Gloucestershire, England. (more…) View the full article

An exposed concrete frame supports this 4.2-metre-wide skinny house in Melbourne designed by Oliver du Puy Architects to feature meditation spaces. Read more

A scale model of a concrete housing complex features alongside architectural photography in this New York exhibition, detailing the works of Polish modernist architect Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak. Read more

Dezeen promotion: the Radical Innovation Award is inviting designers, architects, hoteliers and students to submit innovative concepts that "push the boundaries" of travel and hospitality. Read more

Architecture firm BIG has unveiled its second project for Ecuador's capital city: a mixed-use tower feature two curved blocks covered in herringbone-patterned cladding and pockets of greenery. Read more

British landscape architecture studio Gustafson Porter + Bowman are redesigning the approaches to the Eiffel Tower in Paris ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Read more

Chilean studio DX Arquitectos has added a timber-framed roof extension to the home of a yoga teacher in Santiago, providing a studio where she can teach classes (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Florida interiors studio Poggi Design has teamed up with design brand Luminaire to fit out a tropical estate on La Gorce Island in Miami Beach. (more…) View the full article

Architecture students at Boston's Northeastern University are petitioning for improved studio space, alleging their current working conditions are unsanitary, unsafe, cold and cramped. (more…) View the full article

Product news: Australian company DesignByThem has added a range of bright recycled-plastic chairs to its collection. (more...) View the full article

Shimmering steel panels chequer the facade of this office building at an aluminium plant outside Buenos Aires by Argentinean architects Adamo-Faiden and Estudio Silberfaden. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: with four cities down and four to go, we're halfway through our Dezeen and MINI World Tour. Before our next stop at London Design Festival in September, here are some movie highlights from our trips to Cape Town, Milan, New York and Berlin. (more...) View the full article

G is for Frank Gehry in our seventh A-Zdvent calendar window. The American architect's Guggenheim Museum in the Spanish city of Bilbao (pictured) famously sparked a trend for cities commissioning iconic buildings as catalysts for regeneration, while other high-profile projects include his Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the upcoming new headquarters for Facebook. See more architecture by Frank Gehry » View the full article

Slideshow feature: this set of images by Dutch architectural photographer Iwan Baan shows the scene in New York over the past week as the city recovers from the effects of Hurricane Sandy that swept across Manhattan last Monday, cutting the electricity and flooding the streets and subways. (more…) View the full article

Japanese design studio Nendo has installed screens based on wrought iron fences in the women's clothing section of Tokyo's Seibu department store so it resembles a European city park (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Studio Webb has added a zinc-clad roof extension to a private school in south London, which sets off against the building's existing brickwork (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Wooden barn-like blocks splay out in various directions to form this Swedish villa by Stockholm studio Murman Arkitekter, framing views of a lake and surrounding woodland (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

These collapsible chairs by American design studio Pilot///Wave hang on the wall in an undulating line when they're not in use. (+ movie). (more...) View the full article