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The bulbous Up5 Chair by Italian designer Gaetano Pesce follows on from the 20 iconic seat designs we've already featured for our A-Zdvent calendar. (more…) View the full article

Taipei studio Q-Lab has completed a sports centre in Taiwan that appears to be shrouded under a huge faceted hood (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Comments update: Readers thought Apple's temporary space in Milan – designed to showcase its new smartwatch – looked "shoddy". Read on for more on this and the other most commented stories on Dezeen this week. (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen: our roundup of this week's top stories kicks off with Zaha Hadid's mountain-top museum (pictured), and also includes Daniel Libeskind's pointy tower proposal for Jerusalem. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival 2015: Dublin studio Grafton Architects has installed rows of textured concrete monoliths inside the V&A museum's tapestry gallery, referencing an ancient script and prehistoric standing stones. (more…) View the full article

Following the death of legendary musician David Bowie, illustrators and graphic designers are posting their images interpreting his iconic style and flamboyant fashion. (more…) View the full article

French designer Patrick Norguet has paired raw concrete and sheet metal with colourful ceiling-mounted light boxes to create an unusual interior for this McDonald's on the Champs-Elysées in Paris. (more…) View the full article

A competition-winning proposal to transform Manhattan's Central Park into a sunken landscape (pictured) leads this week's edition of Dezeen Mail, followed by Herzog & de Meuron's Vitra gallery and "thigh gap" jewellery designed to challenge idealised beauty. Read Dezeen Mail issue 299 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

New York-based Studio Dror has proposed adding another huge domed structure to Montreal's Expo 67 site on Île Sainte-Hélène, where Buckminster Fuller's Biosphere has sat for almost 50 years (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Pre-rusted steel plates are arranged in a spiral to form the walls of this public toilet created by Miro Rivera Architects in a park in Austin, Texas (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London Festival of Architecture 2016: stainless steel rods support a tactile system of spinning bamboo pinwheels inside this east London pavilion by design studio Five Line Projects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dutch design office Studio Modijefsky has filled an Amsterdam bar with tropical plants and green surfaces to create a rainforest-like feel (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has completed a pavilion on the bank of Shanghai's Huangpu River, with thin metal columns surrounding a glass-walled room shaped like a cartoon cloud (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Models by Japanese architects including Shigeru Ban, Kengo Kuma and Riken Yamamoto are the focus of a museum that has opened in Tokyo (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Design Week Mexico 2016: empty cuboids representing both museum vitrines and coffins are stacked to create this installation outside Mexico City's Museo Tamayo (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A glazed ramp spirals around a courtyard at the centre of this house in the Portuguese town of Estoril, connecting the various living spaces and a garden roof terrace. Read more View the full article

Lego has announced a kit for building and programming robots, designed to encourage a younger generation to learn how to code, at this year's CES tech conference. Read more View the full article

Lund University graduate Anna Gudmundsdottir created this homeware collection "backwards" by starting with the manufacturers' input rather than the design. Read more View the full article

Delicate lanterns made from pleated paper and table lamps that display assorted objects are among Dezeen editor Amy Frearson's highlights from lighting fair Euroluce in Milan. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio MAPmx has unveiled an office tower in Mexico City with huge concrete walls that appear to be pulled apart at the corners. Read more View the full article

Swedish design studio Front has created a collection of colourful rugs, then transformed the design to produce matching poufs. Read more View the full article

Furniture brands who work with female designers shouldn't expect them to only produce feminine objects, according to Danish designer Cecilie Manz. Read more View the full article

With just 30 days left until entries close for the inaugural Dezeen Awards, we have news of the awards ceremony, which takes place in London later this year. Read more View the full article

An arc of clerestory windows set between narrow stone fins channels daylight into the theatre at the Stirling Prize shortlisted Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre designed by Niall McLaughlin Architects. Read more View the full article

Airbnb has announced a major move into the architecture and construction industry, with plans to release a new housing prototype late next year. Read more