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Dezeen Watch Store: London watch brand Uniform Wares has launched the 104 Series, which is available now in black, blue and orange. (more...) View the full article

News: Dutch architects Mecanoo have won a competition to design a garden and an underground pavilion with a corkscrew staircase in the Polish capital, Warsaw (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Black-painted timber contrasts with clean white window frames on the walls of this cube-shaped weekend home in Normandy, France, by Paris studio Beckmann-N'Thépé Architectes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

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

Opinion: in response to Joseph Rykwert's Royal Gold Medal lecture this week, where the critic stressed that all design has political implications, Kieran Long rejects Zaha Hadid's assertion that architects have "nothing to do with the workers" who die on construction sites. (more...) View the full article

Paris studio Yoonseux Architectes added wooden surfaces and red floors to this school classroom building in the French city of Livry Gargan, to echo the autumnal tones of neighbouring trees (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese architect Kohki Hiranuma plans to create a shell-like structure of "seamless glass" to curve around visitors at the Venice Architecture Biennale this summer. (more...) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: rows of curving translucent panels evoking mountains in traditional Chinese paintings surround scale models of MAD's Nanjing Zendai Himalayas Center at this installation in Venice (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This cube-shaped holiday home in Austria's mountainous Vorarlberg region was designed by Spanish studio Exit Architects to contrast with its more traditional neighbours (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Plants are interspersed amongst the raw industrial spaces of this lifestyle store in Osaka by Japanese firm Suppose Design Office, which combines shopping, dining and gardening (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

"Megalomaniacal ambition" inspired the design for this huge, glossy table by Clive Wilkinson Architects, which rises and falls in a loop around a New York office, framing wood-lined nooks and corridors beneath its surface (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Frank Gehry has written an open letter defending the design for the George Lucas Museum by Chinese architecture firm MAD, as a legal wrangle threatens to delay the project. (more...) View the full article

Foster + Partners will design the stadium that will host the opening game and closing ceremony for the controversial 2022 World Cup tournament in Qatar. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2015: London designer Kacper Hamilton has created a complex sand-timer that uses weights to measure the passing of seconds and minutes (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Huge steel beams with I-shaped profiles were stacked to form the framework of this Tokyo house by Mount Fuji Architects Studio, which features a red spiral staircase winding between its floors (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival 2015 kicked off yesterday. Keep up to date with the latest news and product launches from the event on our new Pinterest board. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | More from London Design Festival 2015 View the full article

Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has developed a transparent modular kitchen system with smoked glass surfaces that display the tools inside (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A modular shelving system made up of wooden ladders furnish the interior of this maternity clothing store in Barcelona designed by Spanish architect Román Izquierdo Bouldstridge (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Amanda Levete's London studio AL_A has won an invited competition to create a mosque as part of the Foster + Partners-designed World Trade Center Abu Dhabi development. (more…) View the full article

Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an architect at Lalire March Architects, which helped transform Barneys' Downtown flagship store in New York (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Tropical, desert and aquatic plants will be housed in a trio of gridded glass domes at the centre of these botanical gardens planned by Austrian firm Delugan Meissl Associated Architects for Taiyuan, China. (more…) View the full article

Architect Alejandro Zaera-Polo has filed a lawsuit against Princeton University for libel and breach of contract, after he was asked to step down as head of its architecture school over allegations of plagiarism. (more…) View the full article

Graduate shows 2016: Royal College of Art graduate Ted Hunt has designed a search engine that allows users to search the web using principles based on the Socratic method. (more…) View the full article

Guests are invited to sleep under the stars in this open-air hotel, which is located 6,463 feet above sea level in the mountains of Graubünden (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This photographic series documents buildings in the former Eastern Bloc, with the intention to save them despite association with a totalitarian regime (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article