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Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby's creative consultancy MAP has designed a build-your-own computer kit (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: the Russian designer of the AK-47 assault rifle Mikhail Kalashnikov has died aged 94. (more...) View the full article

News: British designer Thomas Heatherwick has unveiled plans to create a new art gallery at the V&A Waterfront museum in Cape Town by hollowing out sections of a grain silo complex. (more...) View the full article

News: British graphic designer Neville Brody has created a typeface featuring a subtle pinstripe that will be worn by the England football team at the 2014 World Cup held in Brazil. (more...) View the full article

Philip Johnson's iconic Glass House is set to vanish as part of an installation by Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya that will see the building temporarily engulfed in dense clouds of mist. (more...) View the full article

Angular timber volumes emanate from the centre of this wine-tasting pavilion in France by h2o Architectes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Bamboo architects: architects in China are turning to bamboo as a cheap and sustainable building material, according to Dylan Baker-Rice, principal at Hong Kong studio Affect-T (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

News: a Russian YouTube video claims to show an iPhone 6 created by appropriating different parts from a factory production line. (more...) View the full article

Warsaw studio MFRMGR has subdivided this office space in Poland to create individual workspaces for employees within wooden cabins designed to look like a "mini-town" (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Utopia Arkitekter has unveiled plans to build a multi-faceted office block clad with shards of metal and glass beside the train station in Uppsala, Sweden (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This take on a traditional Slovenian cottage by Dekleva Gregorič Arhitekti features cast concrete walls inlaid with chunks of stone to create a rugged texture (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Swiss studio Bureau A has concealed a wooden cabin inside an artificial rock and transported it to a remote site in the Swiss Alps. (more…) View the full article

Do you have a favourite Aesop store design? Browse our new Pinterest board to view every one of the Australian skincare brand's outlets featured on Dezeen, including the boutiques that made it into our top ten roundup. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more Aesop store designs View the full article

A chipboard shed and a herb garden occupy the top floor of this former factory in Tokyo that Schemata Architects has converted into a workshop for a kimono designer (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Neighbouring buildings flank all four sides of this inner-city housing block in Seoul, so architecture studio Apparat-C planned the layout around the best positions for windows and balconies (+ slideshow). (more…)

Milan 2015: visitors to a Neoclassical palazzo in Milan were invited to play on swings created by London designer Philippe Malouin using solid-surface material Caesarstone (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Amsterdam-based Occult Studio has designed the flagship store for eyewear brand Ace & Tate – installing wooden panels with peg holes that allow displays and mirrors to be easily moved around (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The team led by MAD Architects has presented revised designs for the proposed George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art along Chicago's lakefront (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Renzo Piano Building Workshop has unveiled images detailing its design for a 25-storey residential tower in New York's Soho. (more…) View the full article

Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Jean Nouvel and Wolf D Prix are among the architects paying tribute to Claude Parent, creator of Oblique Architecture, who has died aged 93. (more…) View the full article

Opinion: a proposal to surround New York's Central Park with a giant "sidescraper" epitomises architects' disregard for designed landscapes, says president of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, Charles A Birnbaum. (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with UK studio Chisel & Mouse to offer one reader the chance to win a model from its Cityscapes collection (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This tall, gabled extension is tucked behind the Victorian frontage of a mid-terrace house in Melbourne's Fitzroy North suburb, and its exterior is clad in pale blue tiles (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with German watchmaker Nomos Glashütte to give readers the chance to win a Tangente watch, which features a mechanical system, Arabic numerals and tempered blue hands (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Australian designer Marc Newson has reinvented Louis Vuitton's iconic trunks, making them lighter and more spacious on the inside (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article