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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

Students from Barcelona’s Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia have built a robotic 3D printer that creates architectural structures from sand or soil (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

In the first of a series of movies about objects we curated for the Stepney Green Design Collection, east London designer Phil Cuttance describes the messy process of casting an extra-large version of his Faceture vase. (more…) View the full article

Spectators at the stadium of Greek football team Olympiacos can dine overlooking the pitch at a restaurant with an undulating ceiling and a bar made from cooking pots (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: rumours are mounting that Apple is working on a wearable smartwatch that would link up to an iPhone. (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen and publisher Taschen have teamed up to give away three copies of a book containing 50 remarkable treehouses. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: patterned rolling pins that make edible plates and a meat grinder that squeezes out biodegradable bowls are among a set of kitchen products on show at Ventura Lambrate in Milan this week (+ movies). (more...) View the full article

A house-shaped shop window frames the interior of this renovated beauty salon in Osaka Prefecture by Japanese office Tsubasa Iwahashi Architects. (more...) View the full article

French designer Claire Lavabre has made a mirror that only works when it's placed in front of a dark shape painted on the wall. (more...) View the full article

As advances in technology put space travel back on the agenda, we've rounded up some of the best interstellar design from the pages of Dezeen. (more…) View the full article

This apostrophe-shaped bridge in Hull, England, by London architects McDowell+Benedetti features a rotating mechanism so it can swing open to make room for passing boats (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: the story of how architect Le Corbusier defaced the interior of E.1027, the seminal house designed by fellow modernist Eileen Gray, by painting sexually graphic murals over its walls is to be the subject of a movie. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the popular touch-screen Mutewatch is now available for just £149 (was £199) for a limited time only. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: a chandelier of glass pendants that resemble fishing floats by designer Nao Tamura will be displayed at design brand Luminaire's exhibition space in Miami next month. (more...) View the full article

Japanese firm atelier HAKO architects used concrete dotted with formwork impressions for both the internal and external surfaces of these stacked residences in a suburb of Tokyo (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article