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Dutch design studio HEYHEYHEY assembled an assortment of objects including toothbrushes, books, marbles, matches and a toy train inside two suitcases to build a chain-reaction machine that signs and stamps a postcard. (more…) View the full article

This week we’ve added a new board on Pinterest compiling all the best kitchen equipment from the pages of Dezeen. We’ve got over 11,000 followers on Pinterest and and you can join them here. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » See more stories featuring kitchenware on Dezeen » View the full article

Dezeen Wire: work starts today on an affordable housing development in Harlem by architects Adjaye Associates (more…) View the full article

An exhibition of paintings, furniture and installations by Zaha Hadid goes on show at the Ivorypress Space gallery in Madrid this September. (more…) View the full article

A whirring helicopter of LEDs creates the illusion of a glowing hat in this design by Moritz Waldemeyer for Irish milliner Philip Treacy (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Mexican firms Shine Architecture and TA Arquitectura have converted an unused building at the Monterrey Institute of Technology’s León campus into a 24-hour studio for art and design students (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This concrete house in Tokyo by Japanese architect Hiroyuki Ito has a glazed stairwell that splits the building into two distinct halves. (more...) View the full article

Jay Gort from Hackney studio Gort Scott Architects argues that the beleaguered British high street is actually a thriving location of "collision and conflict" in this talk filmed by Dezeen at our Designed in Hackney Day last year. (more...) View the full article

Zig-zagging pleats embellish the facade of this wedding centre in Saitama, Japan, in our fourth recent story about the work of architect Hironaka Ogawa (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week Dezeen relocated to Milan for the city's annual design week, where we've been reporting on product launches from Zaha Hadid, Ron Arad, Studio Job (above), Konstantin Grcic and more, plus we kicked off the second leg of our Dezeen and MINI World Tour by taking a drive around town with designer Fabio Novembre and set up a TV studio in a car wash. Read on for more highlights of the week and our top track from Dezeen Music Project. (more...) View the full article

Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has completed a hotel in Miyazaki where guest rooms and dining areas surround a central courtyard and wedding chapel (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: an appeals court has blocked the SANAA-designed renovation of iconic former department store La Samaritaine in Paris, which includes a wavy glass facade that critics have compared to a shower curtain. (more…) View the full article

News: architects Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger have revealed a prototype for the world’s first 3D-printed room. (more...) View the full article

Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled new images and a movie showing the studio's proposals to convert an old textile factory in Belgrade, Serbia, into a free-flowing complex of apartments, offices and leisure facilities. (more...) View the full article

News: Japanese architecture studio SANAA has won a competition to design the Taichung Cultural Centre in Taiwan. (more...) View the full article

News: designer and entrepreneur Gwendolyn Floyd has launched an e-commerce platform that allows female artisans from developing countries to overcome "economic discrimination" and sell jewellery using just a mobile phone (+ movies). (more...) View the full article

This holiday home on the southern coast of Nova Scotia perches on a row of narrow concrete fins just metres from the Atlantic Ocean (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

3D printing and scanning was hot on the agenda again in March, when a fully articulated dress was printed and worn by Dita Von Teese (pictured) and space architects planned to print a lunar base. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Music Project: Berlin videographers False Manners Productions mixed fluids including milk, food colouring and make-up remover to create the cosmic patterns accompanying this track by producer Quenum. (more...) View the full article

Concrete block walls with window-like apertures surround a courtyard at the front of this Melbourne house by local practice MRTN Architects, which also features an angular wooden roof (+slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: a three-metre-long sofa created by Peugeot Design Lab splices together a piece of volcanic stone and carbon fibre to create a mix of the old and new (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A team of London-based designers claim to have created the world's smallest 3D-printing pen – an anodised aluminium device called Lix that allows users to "doodle in the air". (more...) View the full article

First the connected home; now the connected garden: designer Yves Behar has created products that monitor soil conditions and automatically water plants when they get thirsty (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Dutch architecture office Heren 5 has collaborated with artist Boris Tellegen to integrate a seven-storey brick artwork into the facade of this housing complex in Haarlem, the Netherlands (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The most private rooms of this house by Japanese studio Airhouse Design Office are concealed within massive columns, leaving the surrounding double-height space to become an area for socialising (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article