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Dezeen archive: we've featured a few monochrome interiors on Dezeen this week, so this latest look back at the Dezeen archive is dedicated to buildings and spaces in shades of black, white and grey. See more monochrome architecture and design » See all our archive stories » View the full article

Architects João Quintela and Tim Simon have built a pavilion inside a climbing centre in Lisbon, providing a cafe and reception space that visitors can also scramble over (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Design student Matthias Brandmaier spent three days in the woods carving a replica Verner Panton chair out of a tree trunk using a chainsaw. (more...) View the full article

In this movie we filmed at Domaine de Boisbuchet in southwestern France last month, design curator and collector Alexander von Vegesack gives us a tour round the estate, which features pavilions including Shigeru Ban's first building in Europe, pioneering bamboo structures by Simón Vélez and experimental domes by German structural engineer Jörg Schlaich. (more...) View the full article

Opinion: in the first of his monthly columns for Dezeen, V&A senior curator Kieran Long argues that today's obsession with authorship and celebrity "leads to serious imbalances in the way we see design in the world" and calls for an overhaul of the way design is curated in the twenty-first century. (more...) View the full article

This boutique interior by Brazilian architect Guilherme de Vasconcelos features a red faceted wall that references the angular qualities of polished gems (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A wooden canopy made of irregular timber lengths sprawls across the ceiling of this Thai noodle bar in Warsaw, Poland, by Moko architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Moving on to February in our review of the year, Google was in the news as it unveiled a preview of its Google Glass headset (pictured) and revealed plans for a vast new campus in California. (more...) View the full article

An old Yorkshire barn renovated into an elegant modern home was popular last week, so we've collected some of our favourite renovations from the pages of Dezeen onto a new Pinterest board. See our renovations Pinterest board » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » View the full article

Laboratory for Architecture in Barcelona uncovered barrel-vaulted brick ceilings during the renovation of this apartment in the architects' home city (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: plans have been revealed this morning for a series of loaf-shaped skyscrapers to accompany the Cheesegrater, Can of Ham, Toast Rack and Gherkin buildings in central London. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: the way we interact with technology "needs to be updated", according to Talia Radford of taliaYstudio, who shows us two of her studio's projects that enable people to take a photo by kissing rather than pressing a button. (more...) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: the British pavilion at the biennale charts the nation's Modernism using a fluorescent pink mound of earth, a galloping horse made from LEDs, imagery of social housing and a pair of concrete model cows (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Tubular steel frames support textured and iridescent materials that make up items in this furniture collection by Gothenburg designer Anny Wang (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Visitors to Venice's Palazzo Grassi become immersed within a space that appears to have no boundaries in an installation created by American artist Doug Wheeler in the gallery's atrium (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a senior design manager at Selfridges, whose flagship store on London's Oxford Street is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Apple has revealed its latest laptop computer, which weighs only two pounds and comes in colours to match the tech giant's iPhone 6 (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2015: Dutch designer Mark Sturkenboom has created a "memory box" containing a dildo with a compartment for storing the ashes of a deceased partner. (more…) View the full article

A spacious loft room bordered by slender balustrades is located beneath the steeply sloping wooden rafters of this Tokyo house by Apollo Architects & Associates (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival 2015: the Royal Institute of British Architects' annual Regent Street Windows project returns with 13 new installations up and down one of London's most famous shopping streets (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Japanese architect Tokujin Yoshioka has just unveiled a glass kitchen and created a glass wardrobe earlier this year, but he's not the only designer who has been pushing the boundaries of the transparent material. In August, a team from MIT's MediaLab unveiled a technique for 3D-printing molten glass (pictured), and a team of students used smartphone glass to build a lightweight pavilion, while Patricia Urquiola and Nendo were among the designers who revealed glass furniture during this year's Milan design week. See all our stories about glass design » View the full article

Nina Tolstrup's design firm Studiomama has created a pastel-coloured wardrobe with doors that unfold into a partition for large rooms (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Cornish firm PBWC Architects has utilised 3D laser-scanning technology to create an accurate model of the rocky site and listed surroundings of a house for St Ives, which has just received planning permission (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London product design firm Seymourpowell has revealed a concept for a commercial first-class aircraft cabin with private rooms that feature full-size beds (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2016: New York lighting designer Lindsey Adelman explains how she used motors to create a vibrating chandelier for Nike in this movie filmed by Dezeen at the sports brand's The Nature of Motion exhibition. (more…) View the full article