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Indigenous communities are pioneers of technologies that offer solutions to climate change, according to designer and environmentalist Julia Watson. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio Searl Lamaster Howe has used charred cedar and slate to create this holiday home for a Chicago couple. Read more View the full article

Strategic design agency Layer has collaborated with American startup Cat Person on a collection of modular furniture for cats that can change as the animal grows. Read more View the full article

Paris-based agency JCPCDR Architecture has invented an oak table that raises and lowers from the ceiling using a mechanism that looks like seat belts to save on space. Read more View the full article

Flowers for Slovakia is presenting three travelling exhibitions during the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration to spotlight emerging Slovak talent. Read more View the full article

Boxy timber volumes tuck away the beds and bathrooms of these minimal holiday apartments designed by Thisispaper Studio, which lie at the heart of the Polish capital. Read more View the full article

Philadelphia architect KieranTimberlake has won the competition to design the new US embassy in the UK. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Perforated metal screens decorate this residential extension built by architecture studio Welsh + Major in a three-metre-wide gap next to a converted grain mill. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Italian ceramics company FMG has produced a collection of large-scale tiles called Max Fine, which can be applied across floors, walls and furnishings. Read more View the full article

In this Dezeen podcast for the Design Museum architect David Adjaye talks to curator Gemma Curtin about Urban Africa, an exhibition of his photographs on show at the museum in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s another clock designed by Giha Woo and Shingoeun (see their clock with a battery for hands in our earlier story), this time with a single spiralling arm to indicate the time in different countries around the world.Called The Bent Hands, the clock face features countries written inside concentric circles, with linked points on a spiralling [...]</img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the Golden Lion award winners at the Venice Architecture Beinnale were announced at a ceremony on Saturday. The Kingdom of Bahrain was awarded for the best National Participation, while Junya Ishigami + Associates received the Golden Lion for best project in the Exhibition People meet in Architecture. See press release below. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New Zealand designer Chris Waind has created this set of decorative paper butterflies. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Madrid studio Pesquera Ulargui Arquitectos have added two exhibition pavilions to the city walls of Logroño in Spain. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Customers can play their own music inside booths at this pizza restaurant in Richmond, UK, designed by Ab Rogers of London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese designers Nendo have created these spoons with a bird profile on the branched handle, designed to resemble a forest when grouped together. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Construction of this apartment block with a stepped elevation by Mexican firm Rojkind Arquitectos is due to commence this summer in Monterrey, Mexico. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Walls, ceilings, furniture and lighting are covered in grey felt at this advertising office in Amsterdam by Dutch interior architects i29. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Austrian designer Robert Stadler has created a new bistro chair for Thonet, a brand famed for their bentwood chairs synonymous with cafe culture that have hardly changed in a hundred years. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Temporium: behind the fourteenth window of our Advent calendar of products on sale at The Temporium are quirky homewares by British design brand All Lovely Stuff, including these salad servers shaped like smiling dinosaurs. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Two Corten steel pavilions form the mouths to a tunnel of university laboratories inside a former army tank depot in Bremen, Germany. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: while the face of this waterside house near Amsterdam is cloaked in perforated aluminium, the rear is entirely glazed so that residents can watch the sun setting. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: this armchair with a pleated leather seat by London designer Benjamin Hubert was inspired by sleeves with puffed shoulders on Italian Renaissance clothing. (more…) View the full article

Singaporean studio LOOK Architects has created a landscaped park and promenade overlooking a beach in north-east Singapore where 400 Chinese civilians were murdered during World War II (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Paralympic athletes headed for London 2012 have inspired transport design studio Priestmangoode to create a conceptual airline seat with a detachable wheelchair. (more…) View the full article