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Dezeen promotion: Nomos Glashütte has introduced two Bauhaus-influenced watches, the Tangente midnight blue and the Tangente 38 midnight blue. Read more View the full article

London-based studio Nir Meiri has teamed up with designer Vaidehi Thakkar to create a series of lamps with shades made from red cabbage leaves. Read more View the full article

For his own residence, California architect Dan Brunn has designed a long, slender home that stretches over a brook on a wooded property in Los Angeles. Read more View the full article

Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has revealed new details of the Tokyo Olympics 2020 torch, as the country prepares for the games this summer. Read more View the full article

Nike has designed basketball and soccer uniforms for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics that it says will be the "most sustainable" and "highest performing" to date. Read more View the full article

Virtual Design Festival starts tomorrow! Here is the schedule of the cultural programme of talks, interviews, movies and collaborations that have been confirmed so far. Read more View the full article

Toyota is showcasing the winning entries of this year's Toyota Logistics Design Competition for the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: UK manufacturer Forbo has released its Tessera Earthscape carpet tile collection, which takes design cues from colours and textures found in nature in a bid to promote wellbeing. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: Sydney studio DesignByThem is celebrating the natural texture of recycled plastic via a speckled, multi-coloured furniture collection called Confetti. Read more View the full article

Rotterdam and Paris architects Ooze have collaborated with artist Marjetica Potrc to create a community garden and water treatment plant on an island in Essen, Germany. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designers Ciszak Dalmas made this hand-cart to display garments made from Indian sarongs by fashion designer Kavita Parmar of Raasta. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This observation tower by Munich office terrain:loenhart&mayr rises over the river Mur at the Austrian border with Slovenia. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll down for the latest update from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs, including jobs with MAD in Beijing, Henning Larsen Architects in Copenhagen and UXUS in Amsterdam, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles at OMA, Tom Dixon, David Chipperfield Architects and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Melbourne practice March Studio have trapped 4500 cardboard boxes behind netting in this store for Australian skincare brand Aesop. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Kaspar Hamacher’s burnt stools (above, left) was one of our most popular stories over the last month so here’s a selection of stories from the Dezeen archives all about wood. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Our latest Dezeen Watch Store pop-up has opened at 55 Neal Street in Seven Dials, Covent Garden in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Portuguese architect and set designer João Mendes Ribeiro has converted the former house of a poet into a writer’s retreat (photos: Do Mal o Menos). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British architects Liddicoat & Goldhill constructed their own north London home using black engineering bricks and slabs of white marble. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Charred timber lines this Thai bistro in Kuwait City by architect Rashed Alfoudari. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Five years ago this week, after just four months online, Dezeen already had a quarter of a million readers. We published our first story about a sex toy, as well as a globular building that Zaha Hadid had just designed for a square in Budapest. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Five years ago this week Olafur Eliasson and Snøhetta unveiled their proposals for the 2007 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion and Herzog & de Meuron announced plans to create a new football stadium for English team Portsmouth FC that were abandoned shortly after. OMA started work on a study into urban growth in the Gulf, the results of which were presented recently as part of an exhibition documenting the firm’s working processes and lighting designer Stuart Haygarth designed a children’s nightlight filled with toys for a charity auction. Elsewhere on Dezeen we published even more high-profile projects that we’d seen in Milan, which included door handles designed by Zaha …

New York firm REX was another of the fifteen architects commissioned to design skyscrapers for the fast-growing Yongsan International Business District of Seoul, South Korea. They’ve proposed a tower with blocks of storeys offset from the centre and cantilevered from each end. (more…) View the full article

Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) have won a competition to design a sports complex in Ethiopia, which will include an excavated football stadium surrounded by earth stands. (more…) View the full article

A pegboard wall with customised pockets provides flexible storage at this tiny Soho office by London designers Studio Swine. (more…) View the full article

The latest movie from a series of interviews we filmed for the Design Museum Collection App for iPad features Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic talking about some of the iconic lights in their collection. Download the app free from the app store here. (more…) View the full article