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Architect Guilherme Machado Vaz has completed the geometric House in Afife, in Portugal, which appears as a solid volume when its shutters are closed. Read more

Paris firm LAN Architecture has renovated a group of Brutalist housing blocks in Bordeaux, France, adding sliding polycarbonate windows that create an ever-changing facade (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The Architecture Foundation has launched a free app that maps the location of over 1,100 historic and contemporary buildings in London, and provides a brief overview of their architectural significance. Read more View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with German design label L&Z to give away five colourful multipurpose containers by Michel Charlot that fold to different heights depending on the needs of the user. (more…) View the full article

Mysterious flights of stairs float in mid-air or form elevated outdoor walkways in this series of installations by artists Lang/Baumann (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Twelve years after designing the Galeria Millan exhibition space in São Paulo, architects Sérgio Kipnis and Fernando Millan have added an annex that reveals its contents to the street. (more…) View the full article

This museum in Warsaw, Poland, by Finnish studio Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects has a deep, cavernous entrance hall that cuts right through the building (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The latest edition of Dezeen Weekly includes a proposal to re-freeze sea water in the Arctic and seesaws installed on the US-Mexico border wall so children in both countries can play together. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly ›

World Architecture Festival 2014: Johanna Hurme of Canadian firm 5468796 explains the use of wooden "quills" in the proposed art gallery extension that was named Future Project of the Year 2014 (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Cologne 2013: French brand Ligne Roset has launched an asymmetric desk by French designer Thibault Desombre. (more...) View the full article

Designers Ron Culver and Joseph Sarafian have developed a method of casting concrete in Lycra stretched by robotic arms, which they believe could be used to create radical new architectural forms (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Norwegian design studio Ment has created handcrafted tableware for Snøhetta's recently completed underwater restaurant in Norway using sand and minerals taken from the surrounding coast. Read more

Canadian studios Dan Hanganu Architectes and Côté Leahy Cardas Architectes have revamped the tent-like structure of a church in Quebec to create a modern library featuring coloured glazing, spiral staircases and lofty ceilings. (more...) View the full article

French designer Philippe Starck has designed his first smartphone: the Mi Mix for Chinese electronics company Xiaomi. Read more View the full article

Crystal-covered strands in London designer Elaine Yan Ling Ng's Design Miami/Basel installation respond to movement nearby by curling and twisting, as shown in this movie filmed by Dezeen (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

PepsiCo has launched a drinks machine, for offices and schools, to give its customers an alternative to using single-use plastic. Read more

Simple plaster surfaces sit alongside aged wooden ceiling beams within this ceramics studio in Coimbra, Portugal, which has been overhauled by Luisa Bebiano Arquitectos and Atelier do Corvo. Read more

News: Japanese industrial designer Kenji Ekuan, whose work ranged from the Komachi bullet train to the Kikkoman soy sauce dispenser, has died aged 85. (more…) View the full article

An electric sports car has its parking space in the shiny white living room of this former carpenter's workshop in the Netherlands, which Studio OxL has converted into a home. (more…) View the full article

Cow-bladder lights, fish-skin stools and plastic made of beetles all feature in an exhibition of work by Eindhoven design duo Formafantasma. (more...) View the full article

As city property prices continue to skyrocket, the trend for micro apartments is growing. We've rounded up eight examples – from a 13-square-metre crashpad in Poland, to a Parisian flat with a home cinema – to show how to make the most of a tiny space (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: a concert hall with a spiky roof in Poland and a terracotta winery buried beneath an Italian vineyard are among the five finalists in the running for the European Union's 2015 architecture prize – the Mies van der Rohe Award (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This symmetrical concrete house by Chilean studio Pezo Von Ellrichshausen is the first in a series of 12 holiday homes underway in the Spanish canton of Matarraña and will be followed by others designed by Sou Fujimoto, Didier Faustino and more (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Not content with releasing one umbrella this month, Japanese studio Nendo has created a lightweight folding umbrella with a carbon-fibre frame and a cover tucked into its handle. (more...) View the full article

Caruso St John Architects has unveiled plans for a new £160 million biomedical laboratory at University of Basel, Switzerland, which features a gridded glass facade and a concrete base with arch-shaped notches. (more…) View the full article