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Melbourne studio Clare Cousins Architects rearranged and extended a Victorian house in the city's St Kilda East district to create two wings for living and sleeping, either side of a dining space that opens out to the garden. (more...) View the full article

British studio 1508 London has converted a Victorian post office in London into an apartment where perforated concrete shutters can be used to open and close different sections of the interior (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: a Russian YouTube video claims to show an iPhone 6 created by appropriating different parts from a factory production line. (more...) View the full article

News: as construction of BIG's Amager Bakke Waste-to-Energy Plant continues in Copenhagen, a video has surfaced showing a successful trial for the building's smoke ring-blowing chimney (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Movie: Dezeen takes a tour of the inaugural West End Design District during this year's London Design Festival, taking in highlights including the Sanderson hotel, shoe designer Tracey Neuls' store and the Republic of Fritz Hansen showroom. (more...) View the full article

Design studio Vidivixi has teamed its furniture collection with works by US artists and designers to create a series of moody sets in its Mexico City showroom. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Vienna Design Week takes place from 25 September to 4 October 2015, and will feature works commissioned especially for the show. (more…) View the full article

British architect Alex Graef has combined two art deco apartments in Vienna to create a home with clean white walls, restored oak floors and a row of artificial skylights (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

White latticed screens and trailing planting shade the glazed facade of this Vietnam day spa, by MIA Design Studio, from the midday sun (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

New footwear brand Một has created a shoe it sees as distinctly Vietnamese, in a pushback against the influence of globalisation. Read more

See versatile uses of cork on our dedicated Pinterest board, including an artists studio that becomes inaccessible in high tide and a house in Berlin with a waste cork facade. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›

We've updated our Pinterest board dedicated to shingles, including a pavilion in the grounds of Japan's Shinshoji Zen Museum with a contoured form and a cedar-clad residence connected by a breezeway in Maine. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › View the full article

One storey hangs precariously over the other at this isolated hilltop house in Australia by architects Denton Corker Marshall. (more…) View the full article

Winter is here in the northern hemisphere, so we've updated our Pinterest board depicting snowy architecture scenes. The board features dozens of projects including mountain cabins, ski lodges and cosy winter retreats. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest or visit our snow-scenes board to see more. Read more View the full article

Viewport Studio has completed the interior fit-out of the Virgin Galactic Gateway to Space building in New Mexico, USA, which has been designed with natural-tone spaces that "deliberately avoid the clichés of the space age". Read more

The bent plywood back of this chair by Danish design brand ShapingYourDay slots into a hole in the seat and is attached with two screws (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Viivi Lehto is introducing a range of playful glass sculptures entitled Garden Series during VDF's collaboration with Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

Penda has devised a modular facade system for a high-rise block in Vijayawada, India, that will allow residents to customise the appearance of the building with hanging gardens and balcony details (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Product news: Dutch designer Arian Brekveld based the design of this lounge chair on the shapes of seats in cars. (more...) View the full article

Design collective Vík Prjónsdóttir has launched two Icelandic wool blankets shaped to look like the wings of a swan and an eider duck as part of a range of avian-influenced covers. (more...) View the full article

Designers Jean-François D'Or and Frédérique Ficheroulle have developed a modular system designed to let users create "a bathroom that does not look like a bathroom" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Traditional Danish seaweed thatching could be updated into a sustainable contemporary building material, according to research by Kathryn Larsen. Read more

Split-level flooring and slim wooden blinds separate the living spaces of this multi-generational home in the Australian city of Newcastle, New South Wales. Read more View the full article

Artists Studio Job created a backdrop of wilting flowers for Viktor & Rolf's Autumn Winter 2013 show at Paris Fashion Week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch fashion house Viktor & Rolf has continued its "wearable art" theme with an haute-couture collection of sculptural white garments made from Cubist facial features. (more…) View the full article