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A new boutique accommodation, envisioned as a "dreamy mix of the elegant and bizarre", has opened up inside a 1970s firehouse in Los Angeles. Read more

Dezeen promotion: the craft of regional designers will be the focus of 2018's Downtown Editions, a design showcase in Dubai that features limited edition creations from around the world. Read more View the full article

Garments hang from a handmade oak structure inside fashion boutique Hostem's pop-up store, which was inspired by the works of American artist Oscar Tuazon (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Tropical plants sprouting up from partition walls provide privacy to workers inside this office in Utrecht, which has been overhauled by architecture studio Space Encounters. Read more

Emulsified liquid latex stretches over bodies and fermented dough drips from skin in this movie by graduate textile designer Shai Langen. (more...) View the full article

Two oversized sash-style windows have been added to the back of this two-storey extension by Sydney architects Panovscott, allowing both levels to open up completely to the garden (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Apple has developed a dark display mode that will be available on the new iPhone and iPad operating systems. Read more

World Architecture Festival 2014: architect Moshe Safdie has called for a "reorientation" of the way cities are designed, saying that the vogue for skyscrapers and the privatisation of public space is creating cities that are "not worthy of our civilisation". (more...) View the full article

Graduate shows 2015: Larisa Bulibasa has developed a vision for the City of London in which a complex network of alleyways, dead ends and enclosed spaces evoke the bewildering financial practices conducted within. (more…) View the full article

Brexit: the Creative Industries Federation has published a report calling for the UK's art, design and cultural industries to be put "at the heart of government thinking" as the nation prepares to leave the European Union. Read more View the full article

It's not too late to find a last-minute present for Father's Day this Sunday. From a ballpoint pen that can make digital notes to a TV designed by the Bouroullec brothers, we've filled our gift guide with 10 of the best new products (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A home-help aide to IM Pei has been charged with assaulting the Pritzker Prize-winning architect at his New York home. (more…) View the full article

Dutch studio Bureau SLA has inserted a smooth white house-shaped art gallery into a timber nineteenth-century Dutch military building. (more...) View the full article

These garments made from interlocking foam pieces by Croatian designer Matija Čop reference construction techniques and shapes found in gothic architecture (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A retrospective on the life and work of Le Corbusier opens today at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. This selection of drawings and paintings by the architect documents the various stages of his career, as presented in the exhibition. (more...) View the full article

Diagonal slats of timber line the boxy recesses set into the facade of this house in Portugal that has been remodelled by architect Ernesto Pereira (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Stockholm 2015: furniture design students from Helsinki's Aalto University have used blue-coloured plywood and black tubular steel to form sculptural chair prototypes. (more…) View the full article

Northumbria graduate Harry Jones has produced a collection of clothing and lifestyle accessories using the life jackets left on European beaches during the refugee crisis. Read more

Semi-translucent polycarbonate panels and wooden shelving systems create partitions in this office renovation for a television station in Hangzhou, China, by Daipu Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Phil Parkin is a senior project designer at Starbucks. For the Dezeen Jobs careers guide, he describes how he ended up designing stores for the world's biggest coffee-shop chain. Read more

News: Norway's central bank has selected pixellated designs by Oslo design studio Snøhetta to feature on the back of the country's new banknotes. (more...) View the full article

Architect Jon Danielsen Aarhus designed this pine-clad cabin in rural Norway for his own family, creating a large glazed living area with mountain and lake views. Read more View the full article

Brazilian firm Studio Arthur Casas has clothed a family house in São Paulo in a shimmering layer of perforated golden metal. (more...) View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a lead designer (interiors) to join Paul Smith, whose newly extended Albemarle Street store is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

London Design Biennale 2016: architect Fernando Romero has unveiled plans for a binational city spanning the US-Mexico border, amid Donald Trump's calls for a wall to be built between the two countries (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article