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This bowl of candy-coloured glass fruits is a lamp by Japanese designer Hisakazu Shimizu of S&O Design. (more…) View the full article

Wooden louvres mask the facade of this apartment block in South Korea by local studio Smart Architecture. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: designer-makers East London Furniture have temporarily fitted out the interior of London bar DreamBags-JaguarShoes using nothing but scrap materials found on the local streets. (more…) View the full article

This office desk by Danish design studio KiBiSi is a cross between an ironing board and a car jack – simply turn the handle on the corner to raise or lower the surface. (more…) View the full article

Every day this week Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will pick one of his favourite extracts from our Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is available for just £12 and makes a lovely Christmas gift. First up is a homemade toaster by Royal College of Art graduate Thomas Thwaites. (more…) View the full article

Reactions to a Zaha Hadid project for Beijing being copied by a developer in another Chinese city lead Dezeen Mail issue 133, which also features the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 133 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Stockholm 2013: French-Dutch design duo Färg & Blanche will present a chair that can be dressed up in an assortment of garments at Stockholm Design Week, which gets underway today (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Danish studio Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and American firm Ralph Appelbaum Associates (RAA) have been chosen to design a Lego visitor experience centre in Billund, Denmark. (more...) View the full article

News: the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has named the ten winners of its annual Small Project Awards, including a concept for a house in the desert with four bedroom towers (above) and a concrete playground pavilion with hidden chimneys (below). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: online design retailer Fab is calling for entries to its Disrupting Design competition in New York on 21 May. (more...) View the full article

Designer Yves Behar of San Francisco studio Fuseproject has launched his OUYA open-source game console. (more...) View the full article

Product news: Copenhagen design firm KiBiSi designed this low-energy pendant lamp by scaling up the shape of a classic light bulb. (more...) View the full article

This concrete-clad house in northern Portugal by Arquitectos Matos comprises an L-shaped block that folds around a courtyard (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: this daybed by design studio Outofstock is shaped to reference landscape elements (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Introducing a new feature on Dezeen! This former industrial warehouse in east London has been converted into open-plan apartments by English/Austrian design firm SIRS (+ interactive slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Wire baskets cradle balls of light to create these lamps by Barcelona designer Martín Azú. (more...) View the full article

This house in the Bavarian countryside by local office SoHo Architektur has a kinked facade that provides different views from the living spaces and a pitched roof that references vernacular farm buildings (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Berlin studio J. Mayer H. has designed a temporary pavilion comprising a wonky grid of criss-crossing timber beams to celebrate the 300th year of German city Karlsruhe (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A wall clad in slabs of red volcanic stone conceals the entrance to this otherwise minimal white house in a suburb of Reykjavík, Iceland, by local office PK Arkitektar (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Tomas Libertiny's design studio used multiple body casts to dictate the shape of this seat for Dutch brand Tchai International, shown in Milan last month. (more...) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: the German pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale features a full-size partial replica of a building made famous through 30 years of political news broadcasts (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Spanish designer Jaime Hayón has paired a ceramic urn-shaped body with a frosted glass shade to create these lamps for design brand Parachilna (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architect Simon Astridge employed a varied material palette of plywood, concrete, brick and stone to create this extension to a Victorian terraced house in London (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Philippe Starck has unveiled a prototype for his latest series of prefabricated low-energy wooden homes – a glazed and aluminium-clad structure outside Paris that he and his wife Jasmine plan to move into (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

British supercar brand McLaren has released images of its track-focused yet road-legal 675LT that will debut at the Geneva Motor Show next week (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article