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Milan 2016: Dutch designer Hella Jongerius has arranged pieces of Vitra furniture by shade to create a rainbow-hued installation displaying the brand's colour and material library (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A trio of board-marked concrete volumes are stacked to create this holiday home by Luciano Kruk, which stands in the dunes of a golf course on the Argentinian coastline (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: Swiss watch brand Mondaine has unveiled a smartwatch with an analogue face – which it says is the first to combine traditional Swiss watchmaking with connected technologies. (more…) View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a CAD sculptor/digital 3D modeller at tech giant Apple, based at its headquarters in Cupertino, California. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Local authorities have been "amazed to see that young women from slums could design as architects or urban planners", according to the co-ordinator of a United Nations initiative using the video game Minecraft to get communities designing their own public spaces. Read more View the full article

Italian architect Piero Lissoni has designed a west London showroom for furniture brand DePadova, arranging its interiors to resemble a luxury penthouse. Read more

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

Milan 2013: Slovenian designer Nika Zupanc will present folding lamps powered by little wind-up keys at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan next week. (more...) View the full article

Japanese architect Kazuhiko Kishimoto designed the ground floor of this house in Yokohama with barely any walls so it can function as a gallery and seating area for members of the local community (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: tech giant Apple has bought Dr Dre's Beats headphone company for $3 billion in the same week that details emerged of a project that will turn users iPhones into a remote control for their houses. (more...) View the full article

Examples of Iran's booming architecture scene, a tear-resistant condom and reaction to the collapse of Kunlé Adeyemi's award-winning Makoko Floating School feature in this week's Dezeen Mail. Read Dezeen Mail issue 310 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Stockholm 2015: furniture design students from Helsinki's Aalto University have used blue-coloured plywood and black tubular steel to form sculptural chair prototypes. (more…) View the full article

The new San Francisco headquarters for photo-sharing website Pinterest is housed in a converted warehouse filled with two-storey white volumes. (more...) View the full article

To coincide with NYCxDesign we've selected five of the top roles on Dezeen Jobs based in New York, including roles at architecture firm Snøhetta and skincare brand Aesop. Read more

KoningEizenberg founders, Hank Koning and Julie Eizenberg, have been awarded the Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal for 2019. We've rounded up seven of their key projects. Read more

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

Beirut designer Richard Yasmine has created a collection of extra-thin hand mirrors that slot into bases made from marble and brass (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

What if you could ship your house to anywhere in the world? Our latest Pinterest board is dedicated to houses that are built in a factory and assembled in far-flung locations, such as a remote Finnish island or a Brazilian mountain landscape. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more prefabricated buildings in our archive View the full article

Luxembourg artist Max Mertens has installed hundreds of swings above a shopping street to offer pedestrians a new experience of a familiar place (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Philipp Schenk-Mischke aims to bring an element of chaos to his designs, which include lopsided vases and tables held together by metal blobs. Read more View the full article

A lounge with a curved sofa and a coffee bar feature in this hair salon in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighbourhood, which Ruud van Oosterhout has designed for two sisters. Read more

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

A freestanding concrete staircase spirals between the floors of this timber-frame and stone building remodelled by the founders of A1 Architects to form their own home and studio in Prague (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architect André Fu has used pieces from his homeware collection to furnish a model apartment inside the Jean Nouvel tower rising above the city's Museum of Modern Art. Read more

British designers Tom Dixon and Bethan Laura Wood, Muji art director Kenya Hara and Morphogenesis founder Sonali Rastogi have joined Dezeen Awards 2019 as judges. Read more