News Feed

London architecture firm DH Liberty has added an installation of reclaimed bottles to this figure-of-eight shaped office in a converted Shoreditch warehouse (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

An elephant, giraffe and crocodile are among the animals that Federico Babina has illustrated in these zoomorphic floor plans. Read more

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: playfulness is essential to creativity claims London designer Dominic Wilcox, who says that creatives should not "worry about what other people think" (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Tiny homes, an apartment building and a boarding house make up the Virginia Placer development, which was designed by Charles Cunniffe Architects for a Rocky Mountain community in Colorado with a dearth of low-cost housing. Read more

Three design students have created a purposefully awkward chair that encourages sitters into a slump to highlight the long-term effects of slouching. (more…) View the full article

Georgian hospitality group Adjara has made a name for itself converting brutalist Soviet-era buildings into boutique hotels, including the award-winning Stamba Hotel in Tbilisi. It has also helped nurture a new generation of Georgian creative talents. Read more

Microsoft employees have moved into a new metal-clad headquarters in Denmark, designed by Henning Larsen Architects but based on a paper written by the tech company's founder Bill Gates (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London designers Studio Swine built a mobile foundry and used it to cast aluminium stools from drinks cans they collected on the streets of São Paulo (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Danish practice Christensen & Co have designed a Corten steel-clad cube in Denmark to house the offices of sustainable energy suppliers Helsingør Utility that blends in with the industrial structures that surround it. Read more

News: after a change of leadership and criticism from leading architects, the Royal Institute of British Architects has overturned its own motion calling for a suspension of Israel from architecture's international membership body. (more…) View the full article

This conceptual house would be wrapped entirely in a plastic insulating material normally used on roofs. Intended for Łódź in Poland, it’s the lowercase letter l in our A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about l House » View the full article

The concrete structure of an old printing factory in Paris has been exposed by DAS Studio as part of the building's transformation into a studio for spinning classes (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

For those unfamiliar with the work of African architect Diébédo Francis Kéré, designer of this year's Serpentine Pavilion, here's a look at 10 of his most important projects to date. Read more View the full article

London Design Festival 2014: JamesPlumb has used textiles coloured with a Medieval dying technique to cover the duo's latest pieces of furniture and lighting (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

We've featured a few projects that utilise bricks in interesting ways recently, so we've collected some of our favourite brick-built projects from the pages of Dezeen onto a new Pinterest board. See our bricks Pinterest board » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » View the full article

American furniture brand Knoll has put a 1960s armchair by designer Charles Pollock back into production, following his death last year. (more...) View the full article

De Baes Associates and architect Sophie van Noten's House SSK is a steel and glass house wrapped inside an open-topped brick shell in Kortrijk, Belgium. Read more

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a project manager and marketing lead at the Serpentine Galleries in London, which will host Bjarke Ingel's "unzipped wall" pavilion this year (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Architects Filipe Pina and Maria Inês Costa have overhauled an abandoned farmhouse in rural Portugal, contrasting its rustic granite walls with a new skin of dark corrugated metal. Read more

This arched timber treehouse by German architect Andreas Wenning is supported by a network of steel joists and provides a guesthouse for an old cottage (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A large window wraps around one corner of this brickwork extension to a Victorian house in London by local office Cousins and Cousins (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The Whitworth gallery in Manchester has reopened following an extensive renovation by London architecture studio MUMA that included the addition of two new glass and brick gallery wings (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Heatherwick Studio (whose redesign of the iconic London bus is pictured), John McAslan + Partners and the Royal College of Art, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with MAD, Paul Smith and SOA and more. (more...) View the full article

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has unveiled a set of posters advertising the solar system's planets and moons as holiday destinations. (more…) View the full article