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News: Google has revealed footage of a self-driving vehicle with no steering wheel or pedals, announcing that it expects to roll out its first pilot scheme on public roads in "the next couple of years". (more...) View the full article

Toronto firm RZLBD has completed a three-storey house comprising two volumes split by a staircase in the middle (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Furniture company Henge has created a dining table with a handmade "micro-mosaic" wooden top standing on bronze sand-casted legs. Read more View the full article

Stockholm-based Note Design Studio used photographs of Death Valley to inform the pastel colour scheme for this restaurant and coffee shop in the Swedish capital (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Kids can now build their own fully functional Windows 10 PC tablet laptop, using this powerful new kit by creative-tech toy company Kano. Read more

Three kilometres of saffron-coloured pathways temporarily connect the shore of Italy's Lake Iseo to islands at its centre in this installation by Bulgarian artist Christo (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Bjarke Ingels' firm has unveiled designs for a major residential development in downtown Toronto, reminiscent of the experimental housing complex built by Moshe Safdie in the 1960s (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Concrete piers support the aluminium-clad blocks of this new architecture school building at the University of Portsmouth, England, designed by Penoyre & Prasad around a landscaped courtyard (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

NeoCon 2016: British fashion designer Paul Smith has interpreted a print from his Spring Summer 2015 collection as a patterned textile for US company Maharam. (more…) View the full article

Architects Manuel Lillo and Emilio Vicedo have completed a bus station in the Spanish town of Santa Pola, featuring a huge metal roof that tapers to form very thin edges on each side (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival 2015: artist and designer Seetal Solanki is launching her material consultancy studio Matter with a six-day exhibition and programme of events (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

March 2019 was the best-ever month for traffic to Dezeen, with over three million people visiting our site for the first time! British illustrator Toby Melville-Brown created this image to celebrate the milestone. Read more

This week saw the Caruso St John-designed gallery for Damien Hirst win this year's RIBA Stirling Prize, as the UK's best new building. To mark the occasion, we've scoured our archives to find more examples of Britain's finest contemporary architecture and pinned them to a new Pinterest board. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more examples of UK projects in our archive View the full article

White-painted walls and plywood panels contrast with the existing wooden interior of this vintage clothing store in Saitama city, which was recently renovated by local designer Manabu Okano (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Industrial designer Tom Chung and Campos Studio discovered a brick fireplace while updating this Vancouver residence, renovated so its owners can enjoy into their old age. Read more

Glass panels slide into the walls to create an outdoor living room at this lakeside house outside São Paulo by Brazilian architects Studio Arthur Casas (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The architecture and design of the counterculture era has been overlooked, according to the curator of an upcoming exhibition dedicated to "Hippie Modernism" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

New York studio Light and Air Architecture has retrofitted a two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn with ample custom cabinetry and a spiral staircase. Read more

New York firm Rafael Viñoly Architects has revealed an updated version of a residential skyscraper for Chicago in new images and a short movie, in which the studio's founder describes his ideas for the project. Read more

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

Dezeen promotion: this year's Clerkenwell Design Week festival in London will present new product launches across four exhibitions from 19 to 21 May. (more…)

Wooden walls integrate bookshelves, doorways, windows and a foldaway desk inside this family house in Geneva that has been renovated by local architect Aurélie Monet Kasisi (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: windows by manufacturer Fakro dot the roof of this bright white office building in southern Poland, filling its interiors with natural light. Read more

Concrete and stone buildings with sculpted green rooftops are arranged around generous courtyards at this prison complex near Tarragona, Spain, by architects AiB and Estudi PSP Arquitectura (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2014: Italian designer Luca Nichetto has designed a ceramic coffee set to accompany a solo exhibition of his work at Mjölk gallery in Toronto (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article