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News: in 2012 the total number of skyscrapers constructed around the world failed to increase for the first time in six years, says the annual report from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, revealing the continued impact of the global financial crisis that started in 2007. (more...) View the full article

Chilean architects Mathias Klotz and Lillian Allen have renovated a castle-like residence in Santiago's Parque Forestal to create a restaurant, exhibition space and ice-cream parlour (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Kooo Architects has converted a seven-storey building in the centre of Guangzhou, China into a guesthouse with lantern-like frosted glass walls. Read more

G is for Frank Gehry in our seventh A-Zdvent calendar window. The American architect's Guggenheim Museum in the Spanish city of Bilbao (pictured) famously sparked a trend for cities commissioning iconic buildings as catalysts for regeneration, while other high-profile projects include his Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the upcoming new headquarters for Facebook. See more architecture by Frank Gehry » View the full article

Architectural photographer Maxime Delvaux challenged students at Brussels University to create scale models that would appear realistic when photographed (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Owners of Emeco's iconic Navy chair can finally avoid the shock of sitting on ice-cold aluminium with these purpose-made seat pads. (more...) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Chilean architects Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen have built a maze-like pavilion in the Venice Giardini, made up of 10 overlapping cylinders (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

David Chipperfield's Milan office has won a contest to design a new campus for one of the world's oldest surviving universities. Read more

Furniture by Frida Escobedo and designer Hector Esrawe are among the designs decorating a "magnificent" 1970s house in Mexico City, for the inaugural exhibit from Masa gallery. Read more

News: pieces by Japanese architect Junya Ishigami, British artist Tracey Emin and Australian artist Hany Armanious will be the first three artworks installed as part of Sydney's AUS$9 million City Centre Public Art Plan. (more...) View the full article

Children would swing beneath a giant colourful hot-air balloon in this proposal for a sculpture park in Queens by Australian architect Jesse Lockhart-Krause. (more…) View the full article

Living spaces at this house in the Indian city of Chandigarh are distributed around a full-height courtyard that allows natural light and breezes to reach rooms arranged around its perimeter. Read more

Dutch Design Week 2013: graphic design graduate Evelien Crooy has made her own ink from insects and used it to screen-print the cover of a book about the creatures. (more...) View the full article

News: New York's MoMA has acquired a "4D-printed" dress that automatically changes shape, and the technology used to create it, a month after the museum added five DIY electronics products to its permanent collection. (more…) View the full article

Layers of metal mesh are used to regulate the level of privacy and daylight for glazed creative studios added to a residential building in Beijing by local architecture firm Remix Studio. Read more View the full article

A team led by Studio Gang founder Jeanne Gang has been named the winner of the bid for the concourse and terminal at Chicago O'Hare airport, beating competition from SOM, Foster + Partners and Santiago Calatrava. Read more

Following the popularity of a fully functional car made entirely out of cardboard by Japanese manufacturer Lexus, we've created a new Pinterest board full of architecture and design projects utilising the heavy-duty paper. Examples include a cathedral by Pritzker Prize winner Shigeru Ban, a bicycle that costs less than £10 to manufacture and jewel-like vases. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more cardboard-related stories View the full article

The living room of this home in Japan's Hyogo prefecture, by Tokyo architect Soichi Yamasaki, features a dog pen so the owner's pets can be involved in family life without running riot (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The permeable fabric skin of this inhabitable installation by graduates from Germany's Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design allowed moisture into the space, designed to make visitors feel like they were inside a cloud (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Moving on to J, the next design in our festive alphabetical countdown is the Jam Chair created by Italian studio Archirivolto for Calligaris. (more…) View the full article

News: Chicago firm JAHN and Mexican office ADG have teamed up to design a new stadium for Mexican baseball team Los Diablos Rojos del Mexico with a pointed roof modelled on a devil's trident. (more…) View the full article

New York 2014: Canadian design brand Umbra has launched its Umbra Shift platform at ICFF in New York, with a range of products that includes the Hanger Chair by London designer Philippe Malouin. (more...) View the full article

Design Miami 2015: traditional automotive brands "don't need to be scared" of upstarts including Tesla and Apple – and the cars of the future may not be electric, according to Audi's head of experiential marketing. (more…) View the full article

London design studio Johnson Banks has created a visual identity for new meat alternative brand This, aimed at flexitarians wanting to reduce their animal consumption. Read more

Architects Francesco Di Gregorio and Karin Matz used spotty tiles, blue rope and pine to convert the hayloft of an old thatched farmhouse into an apartment on the small island of Föhr in Germany (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article