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Australian architecture studio Wowowa built three cylindrical brick turrets with copper accents for a house in Melbourne. Read more View the full article

Bespoke, smart and made-to-order is the new face of the skincare industry, where product designers are applying artificial intelligence and machine learning. Rima Sabina Aouf spotlights seven brands demonstrating this. Read more View the full article

Creative collective 9+1 celebrates the Japanese art of Urushi in its Craft-tech series, which it is presenting as part of the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

As the final part of today's VDF x Rosey Chan collaboration, the musician will speak live to Dezeen before sharing two exclusive improvised performances. Watch the broadcast from 5:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Italian architect Antonio Citterio has completed an apartment building with stone and glass balconies that overlook Miami Beach. Read more View the full article

Readers are debating Michael Fords' statement that architects "who want to really impact the fight for racial equality" should stop designing jails and prisons, and sharing their thoughts on other top stories in this week's comments update. Read more View the full article

Milan 2010: London design studio Study O Portable presented a set of bangles made of layers of ceramic resin in Milan earlier this month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve got together with Dutch architects MVRDV to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of Green Dream – How Future Cities Can Outsmart Nature, written by The Why Factory foundation. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Round windows in black and red are plugged into the facade of this wood-clad house by Australian firm Judd Lysenko Marshall Architects that sits on the outskirts of Melbourne. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: architecture and design products database Architonic present impressions of Interieur 2010 in Kortrijk last month on their Facebook page. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Argentinian architects Adamo-Faiden have completed a club house in the middle of a lake near Buenos Aires. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: critic Stephen Bayley is to chair the London Design Museum’s Brit Insurance Designs of the Year awards this year. See press release below (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka will present a series of clear acrylic furniture for Italian brand Kartell in Milan next week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this next movie filmed by Dezeen at Shenzhen& Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Architecture/Urbanism 2009, Benjamin Ball of Ball-Nogues Studio talks about their installation made by suspending 10,000 garments. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French architects Stephane Maupin and Nicolas Hugon have completed this ship-like building outside Paris as a base for rail and subway employees. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have announced 25 new additions to the World Heritage List, including the Fagus Factory by Walter Gropius as reported yesterday, but deferred an application for the inclusion of 19 buildings by Modernist architect Le Corbusier, referring the decision to the next committee meeting. See the full list of accepted applications here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Following our story about Shigeru Ban’s apartments secured by rolling metal shutters, here’s a concrete house near Stuttgart that can be sealed with sliding screens. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Following our recent feature about projects that intentionally look as though the builders haven’t left yet, here’s a restaurant in Mexico City with lumps of plaster and holes on its ceiling. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This boutique by Japanese designers Nendo is full of fake doors. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish architects BIG seem to have a thing for skiing on rooftops and have designed some more buildings that double up as ski slopes, this time for a resort in Lapland. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year Nike launched a football strip for the French national team featuring the classic Breton stripe, while Terence Conran, Tord Boontje, Tom Dixon and over a hundred other prolific designers each created an artwork on a piece of graph paper to raise money for cancer care centres. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: a wall of wooden scales folds through the glazed facade of this house and studio that Korean architects AND designed for an artist in South Korea. (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI National Museum of the XXI Century Arts is the focus of our next movie about the World Architecture Festival, as programme director Paul Finch explains why the jury unanimously voted for it to win the festival’s World Building of the Year award in 2010. (more…) View the full article

British architects Wilkinson Eyre and landscape architects Grant Associates have completed an enormous tropical garden in Singapore filled with tree-like towers, shell-shaped greenhouses and a 30-metre-high man-made waterfall (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

German design collective ART+COM have installed over a thousand rising and falling metal raindrops in Singapore’s Changi Airport (+ movie). (more…) View the full article