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London Design Festival 2016: Studio Swine used very hard rubber to craft this black furniture collection, designed for American industrialist Henry Ford's failed utopian city (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

An expansive terrace provides a meditation space at this weekend residence and spiritual retreat in the Utah desert, which US firm Imbue Design completed using stone-filled gabions for some of the external walls (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A dramatic twisting staircase and a spacious conservatory are some of the striking features that Luigi Rosselli Architects has added to this 1920s Sydney home. Read more

Mirrored facades can help buildings camouflage into their surroundings or create optical illusions. We've created a new Pinterest board full of reflective architecture, including a desert cabin that appears to be invisible and a Japanese cafe that mirrors a bank of cherry blossoms. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more mirrored buildings View the full article

Architecture studio Paper House Project has added a double-height atrium surrounded by gridded windows to an apartment in a converted warehouse in east London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architects and critics have joined in an outpouring of praise for the work of Chinese-American architect IM Pei, who has died at the age of 102. Read more

Milan 2016: Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek has launched a range of new furniture and accessories, which includes a simple table lamp with a moulded ceramic shade (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

We're racing towards 500,000 Instagram followers, so we've collated a selection of the most-liked posts from our carefully curated feed so far this year. Click through to see the top 10, and don't forget to follow Dezeen on Instagram! (more…) View the full article

Transportation designer Paul Priestman will talk about cities of the future at Dezeen Day in London on 30 October. Read more

With India emerging as a new hotspot for inventive architecture, we've rounded up 10 impressive new homes in the country, from a Mumbai house clad in antique doors to an Ahmedabad villa with rotating walls. Read more

Children going to school or public places should be given bulletproof backpacks, the CEO of self-defence brand Guard Dog has told Dezeen. Read more

The bulbous Up5 Chair by Italian designer Gaetano Pesce follows on from the 20 iconic seat designs we've already featured for our A-Zdvent calendar. (more…) View the full article

French designer Patrick Norguet has paired raw concrete and sheet metal with colourful ceiling-mounted light boxes to create an unusual interior for this McDonald's on the Champs-Elysées in Paris. (more…) View the full article

South Korean carmaker Hyundai has revealed its concept for a vehicle with robotic legs that could save lives as a first responder in natural disaster zones. Read more

This football stadium in Montreal has a giant faceted roof structure, which folds over an indoor playing field before morphing into spectator seating surrounding a second open-air pitch (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Cardiac radiographer and designer Brooke Roberts has used digital knitting technology to create garments with patterns based on MRI brain scans and medical imagery (+ interview). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Herman Miller and Vitra have released a limited run of Eucalyptus LTR Tables – a version of Charles and Ray Eames' design with a top made from trees felled at the Eames House. Read more

Apartment dwellers can enjoy nearly 1.5 metres of indoor veggie patch using the Rotofarm by Bace, a countertop hydroponic garden where plants are rotated to grow more quickly. Read more

American studio Brand Bureau employed a "slightly cheeky camp and wilderness feel" for the conversion of an industrial building in Arkansas into this venue for co-working, dining and playing shuffleboard. Read more

Los Angeles based furniture designer David Okum has reimagined the extension cable to create a flexible row of wooden spheres and cubes containing multiple sockets that also prevent the cable from tangling. (more...) View the full article

Construction has started on a skyscraper in Tirana designed by Dutch firm MVRDV, set to feature a facade with a pixellated map of Albania at its centre. Read more

Architects Panos Dragonas and Varvara Christopoulou believe there is no longer anywhere remote enough to build a wilderness hideaway, so have instead proposed a cabin raised above the Athens rooftops. (more…) View the full article

AZL Architects has completed Song House, a concrete five-bedroom house adapted to the needs of its elderly and infirm occupants in the rural village of Nansong, China. Read more

A wearable 3D-printed eyeglass that monitors breathing and pupil size to measure what people find interesting online has been developed by students at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

A quick traffic report: we're proud to say Dezeen has had over 100 million pageviews this year. Thanks to all our readers! View the full article