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Guest artists will be invited to live and work inside this shard-like timber hut. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: in a review for The Guardian, architecture critic Jonathan Glancey says that the new Maggie’s centre in Nottingham is like something out of a fairytale and “is clearly designed to make visitors smile” – The Guardian Glancey claims that architect Piers Gough of CZWG and fashion designer Paul Smith, who was responsible for the interior, have triumphed in their attempt at creating a homely environment for those affected by cancer, adding: “From a purely architectural and design point of view, few hospital buildings – this side of the other eight Maggie’s Centres built in Britain since the 1990s – are as welcoming.” See our original story on Maggie’s Nottingh…

A triangular courtyard slices through the centre of this woodland retreat in Nagano, Japan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: no two items of furniture or pieces of tableware are the same in the dining room that British artist Martin Creed has designed at London restaurant Sketch. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: today is the final edition of our daily TV show from Dezeen Studio at MOST in which we round up some of the other things that have been happening during the week. Tom Dixon demos the Digital Forming software he’s got on show that allows customers to customise their own bespoke Tom Dixon lamp or speaker and then purchase it online with the click of a button, Piers Roberts introduces the Designersblock exhibition in the cloisters of the museum and Achille Sassoli takes us on a tour of Carpigiani’s Gelato University. We also have footage of the MOST party from earlier in the week, as well as yesterday’s The Great Stamp Giveaway where 400 lucky visitors got their…

The next building in our series from the new Yongsan International Business District in Seoul, South Korea, is a skyscraper designed by French architect Dominique Perrault, with faceted glass that will ripple across the surface. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: London watch brand Uniform Wares have launched the latest range in their 300 Series of chronograph watches, which are available now at Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) View the full article

Swiss architects Bureau A have created decorative steel gates to discourage nocturnal “illegal activities” in the entrance to their Geneva studio. (more…) View the full article

The Design Museum Collection App for iPad is available to download from the app store and features interviews filmed by Dezeen, such as this one in which Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic describes the evolution of telephone design. (more…) View the full article

This week architects have been unveiling concepts for the redevelopment of New York’s Grand Central Terminal and SOM’s ring-shaped observation deck sliding up and down two skyscrapers proved the most controversial for our commenters, who set about mocking up some hilarious alternative renderings. (more…) View the full article

Product news: Swedish design duo Mattias Ståhlbom and Gabriella Gustafson of TAF have created a table with an upside-down underframe for Danish producers Hay. (more…) View the full article

News: well-designed classrooms can improve the academic performance of primary school pupils by 25 percent according to a new study undertaken by the University of Salford and UK architects Nightingale Associates. (more...) View the full article

The next intake of architecture students at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia will be accommodated in modular student housing with stark concrete interiors (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Zaha Hadid's glacier-inspired benches (above) and more new products from Milan feature in Dezeen Mail issue 147, which also includes the lastest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 147 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Scandinavian designers Andreas Engesvik and Jens Fager have created a collection of lightweight pressed-felt room dividers from recycled bottles for office furniture brand Edsbyn (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This renovated family home in Japan by designer Yasunari Tsukada features large internal windows and a mezzanine loft, creating apertures and vantage points for looking into different rooms (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our penultimate movie recorded at the MINI Paceman Garage in Milan, New York designer Stephen Burks discusses the importance of having a design identity and journalist Henrietta Thompson explains why designers are starting to expand into retail. (more...) View the full article

Maison&Objet 2015: Italian research studio Fabrica has designed a tableware collection to reflect the fusion of different cultures, customs and traditions in current dining trends (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: Swedish furniture retailer Ikea has added an augmented reality function to its 2014 catalogue, allowing customers to see what products will look like in their homes. (more...) View the full article

Here are more public spaces on the back of bikes: a swarm of tiny mobile parks covered in grass are being pedalled around the city of Baku this month (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London architect Zaha Hadid has designed a family of superyachts for German shipbuilders Blohm+Voss (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Dezeen founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs has been named in the Hospital Club 100 list of the most influential people in the media and creative industries. (more...) View the full article

We've reached the final day of our festive countdown, so in the first of three final posts today here's Chinese architect Li Xiaodong, whose projects include a school that bridges a creek between two castles and a library clad with firewood (pictured). See more architecture by Li Xiaodong » View the full article

French firm Dominique Perrault Architecture has completed a 220-metre skyscraper with a folded glass facade in Vienna, which has now become Austria's tallest building. (more...) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Lego, Studio Drift, Mecanoo architecten and east London designer Lee Broom, whose lamps made from crystal decanters are pictured. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Samsung Design Europe, Gensler, Moooi and more... (more...) View the full article