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Italian designer Elena Bompani has designed a flexible furniture system for renters and travellers. Read more View the full article

Laser-cut stainless steel creates an intricately patterned surface on the walls of this upgraded metro station in Amsterdam by architecture firm Maccreanor Lavington (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Fifteen years after Miuccia Prada commissioned Herzog & de Meuron to design Prada's Tokyo flagship, the Swiss architecture studio has completed an "understated" box-like shop for her brand Miu Miu across the street (+ slideshow). (more…)

Interview: on the anniversary of the Japanese tsunami of 2011, Japanese architect Kengo Kuma explains how the catastrophe made him rethink his attitude to architecture. (more...) View the full article

Each stone that makes up this fan-shaped memorial by Koishikawa Architects represents one of the 18,000 victims of Japan's most powerful earthquake (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Today is the tenth letter in our A-Zdvent calendar and features John Pawson. His British firm remodelled this old church in Augsburg, Germany earlier this year (pictured) and yesterday announced he'll be the latest designer of a holiday home for Alain de Botton's Living Architecture project. See more architecture by John Pawson Architects » View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: created by Japanese industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa for iconic fashion brand Issey Miyake, the Twelve watch is modelled on the shape of a socket wrench. (more…) View the full article

Interior design studio Nicole Hollis has inserted charred black boxes for storing project materials into its new offices in San Francisco. Read more View the full article

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced the winners of its 2019 Honor Awards, which include David Adjaye's African American history museum, a preserved university building in Virginia, and BIG's adaptive reuse of a second-world-war bunker. Read more

Architecture firm OMA has completed its first project on America's West Coast: a glass condo tower in San Francisco with stepped corners. Read more

Dezeen Mail issue 176 includes a phone made from modular Lego-like parts and all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 176 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Mexican design studio Peca has created a collection of furniture with structures based on the patterns found in poetry. Read more

Here’s the line-up for our Designed in Hackney Day on 1 August. This event is FREE! Click here to register now and read on for more details… (more…) View the full article

American design-build firm Go Logic has created a range of factory-made dwellings that were designed using passive house standards and can be constructed onsite in less than two weeks. Read more View the full article

London fashion and interiors studio Eley Kishimoto has designed a collection of wallpapers with bold screen-printed patterns. (more...) View the full article

News: the number of people riding the Wilkinson Eyre-designed Emirates Air Line has dropped by half since last year, fuelling criticism that the project is not fulfilling its intended role as a key part of London's transportation infrastructure. (more...) View the full article

A team led by Studio Gang founder Jeanne Gang has been named the winner of the bid for the concourse and terminal at Chicago O'Hare airport, beating competition from SOM, Foster + Partners and Santiago Calatrava. Read more

IKEA has launched a rainbow-coloured version of its Frakta shopping bag in the US to promote equality for the LGBT+ community. Read more

Large panels of glazing are sandwiched between the thick white concrete frame of this riverside house near Oxford by London studio Selencky Parsons (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Movie: in this exclusive video interview, Bjarke Ingels explains how his firm BIG used stacks of fibreglass boxes to create a huge undulating structure on the lawn in front of the Serpentine Gallery in London. (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen: critics spoke to Dezeen about how China's museum boom has resulted in cultural buildings with "no vision", while other industry experts told us that rising sea levels are sparking interest in amphibious architecture. (more…) View the full article

Japanese studio MAMM Design has lowered the kitchen of this apartment in Amsterdam to fit a mezzanine under the steep roof of an 85-year-old housing block (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Norman Foster, Calvin Klein and Dieter Rams are among over 100 high-profile designers that have sided with Apple as it continues an ongoing patent case against tech rival Samsung. (more…) View the full article

Belgian studio Atelier Tom Vanhee has renovated and extended the brick buildings of a community centre in the village of Westvleteren using a contrasting contemporary brick (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: Nao Tamura drew on experiences from the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami to create an installation of suspended mobiles, intended to evoke a sense of fragility and harmony with nature. (more...) View the full article