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Tigg Coll Architects has renovated a student accommodation building in London's Kings Cross, with interiors based on the area's railway heritage. Read more View the full article

A lounge contained within a house-shaped extension is one of several interventions designed by Tigg Coll Architects to add a more homely feel to a student housing block in London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The southernmost tip of Scotland's Isle of Skye is the setting for this small wooden house by local firm Dualchas Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product design studio Tiipoi has worked with Indian master craftsman Mathew Sasa to create a collection of ceramic vessels using a technique found in a remote village in northeastern India. Read more View the full article

Ren Pepe Arquitetos has converted part of a former bank in Porto into a dental surgery, featuring geometric patterns that reference the city's many tiled frontages (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturers’ Association (ASCER) is calling for architecture and interior projects that use Spanish ceramics to enter this year's Tile of Spain Awards. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: entries are now being accepted for the Tile of Spain Awards, the annual competition run by the Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturer's Association (ASCER). (more...) View the full article

Irish studio GKMP Architects added glazed white tiles to the angular walls of this extension to a semi-detached house in Dublin to help direct sunlight into the interior (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Inside Festival 2013: a Barcelona apartment renovation with triangular patterned floor tiles has been named World Interior of the Year at the Inside Festival in Singapore. (more...) View the full article

Bonba Studio has transformed an office in Barcelona's Eixample district into a two-bedroom flat featuring traditional vaulted ceilings and multi-hued surfaces. Read more View the full article

These retail display stands by Berlin designer Till Wiedeck have multiple shelves for presenting monochrome products in the stores of fashion brand COS (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Vienna Design Week 2010: here’s another machine by Mischer’Traxler (see their Nespresso Battery in our earlier story), this time a device for automatically decorating cakes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

For the new premises of German textile-printing company Textilmacher, Munich firm Tillich Architektur has completed a building with a concrete facade reminiscent of creased fabric (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

These graphic shapes on the wall can be pulled outwards to form a clothes rail and occasional table. (more...) View the full article

News: the owners of an observation deck on the 94th storey of Chicago's John Hancock Center are considering adding a glass box into which visitors would be strapped and tilted forward to experience a bird's eye view of the city below. (more...) View the full article

Tim Marlow has been named the next director and first chief executive of the Design Museum in London, after co-directors Deyan Sudjic and Alice Black announced their departure last week. Read more

Dutch designer Tim van de Weerd has unveiled a family of white porcelain planters that are supported by short limb-like protrusions. (more…) View the full article

Dutch designer Tim van de Weerd has created two steel plant pots resembling "creatures" with root-like legs. (more…) View the full article

The monochrome, mosaic-clad classrooms at this preschool in Santa Marta, Colombia, are grouped into modular clusters around triangular courtyards. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This holiday home on the south coast of Iceland features a sheltered central courtyard lined by a pair of timber volumes and a terrace with a panoramic view of a nearby lake. Read more View the full article

Paris firm Belus & Hénocq Architectes has added a timber-clad educational centre and student dormitory to a boarding school, which sits in a landscaped park in the Saint-Denis area of Paris (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Australian studio Alexander & Co has added wooden furnishings and a caged rattan ceiling to the formerly austere interior of this Italian restaurant in Sydney. Read more View the full article

Espen Surnevik's replacement for a 19th-century church lost to a fire in the Norwegian village of Våler has pyramidal timber roofs that funnel daylight into its worship spaces. Read more

Asymmetric windows complete the angular timber-clad volumes of this nursery in Heilbronn, Germany, by local studio Mattes Sekiguchi Partner Architekten (photographs by Zooey Braun + slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This modernist resort in Northern California, which formed an enclave for artists in the 1960s, has been overhauled by Los Angeles design studio The Novogratz. Read more