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Academy Award-winning set designer Ken Adam, who created iconic backdrops for seven films in the James Bond franchise and Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove, has died at the age of 95. (more…) View the full article

Nike has colour-matched Brazil's new World Cup football strip with the kits worn by the team that won the tournament back in 1970. Read more View the full article

A crisis that saw mountains of garbage fill the streets of Lebanon led to heightened interest in recycled materials, say designers and architects at Beirut Design Week. Read more View the full article

Glowing red arches straddled bushes, pathways, fences and fountains in the gardens of the Portuguese presidential residence earlier this year, as part of an installation by Porto studio LIKEarchitects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Swiss firm Haberstroh Schneider Architekten has extended a house in Basel by adding a chain of three rooms, creating a new semi-enclosed courtyard that is filled with stepping stones (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

These tiny pebble-shaped seaside cabins by Korean studio Yoon Space Design are designed to be easily transported from beach to beach (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Tel Aviv-based Hilla Shamia Design Studio's Wood Casting collection is made by inserting lengths of tree trunk into a mould and filling the spaces with molten metal (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Berlin-based product designer Mark Braun has created his first watch, with the Metro for fine watchmakers Nomos Glashütte (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Music: footage taken through a car windscreen of a town after dark was manipulated by director Kevin McGloughlin to create this music video for electronic act Sunken Foal. (more…) View the full article

Music: director Christophe Thockler used "10 litres of gasoline" to create this fiery stop-motion music video for avant-pop duo Victoria+Jean. (more...) View the full article

News: a Dutch firm specialising in floating structures has unveiled plans for a hotel shaped like a snowflake with a glass roof so that guests can watch the Northern Lights while bobbing off the coast of Tromso in Norway. (more...) View the full article

Designer Es Devlin created an all-blue stage set for the Girls & Boys play at London's Royal Court Theatre, which charts the dissolution of a woman's marriage through different video projections. Read more View the full article

Product news: Spanish studio Lievore Altherr Molina has designed a family of triangular tables and stools for Italian brand Arper. (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2014: designer James Patmore presented his first homeware collection, showing handmade wooden pieces and a table lamp made from a circular screen as part of an installation in an east London cafe (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The next instalment in our A-Zdvent calendar is the welded aluminium and fibreglass Lockheed Lounge by Australian designer Marc Newson. (more…) View the full article

New images of a planned 304-metre-tall tower in Brooklyn by SHoP Architects have been revealed in advance of a review by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. (more…) View the full article

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New York firm Gachot Studios custom made the mohair sofas, blue paint and fire grate that feature in this hotel in Detroit, designed for American watch brand Shinola. Read more

These four "finger-like" extensions to a Vienna restaurant, by PPAG Architects, feature mirrored walls that reflect the surrounding parkland, and windows that slide up above the roof (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2014: Japanese architect Toyo Ito spoke to Dezeen about his design for textile brand Kinnasand's first Milan showroom and his "site specific" architecture (+ interview + slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2016: product design students at Swiss university ÉCAL have collaborated with technology brand Punkt to make basic household electronics, such as a radio and a power plug, more intuitive (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Amsterdam-based product designer Ernst Koning has invented a portable hexagon-shaped Faraday cage to help us switch off from our smartphones. Read more

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: Eindhoven designer Miriam van der Lubbe takes us around the fair she co-founded, claiming: "What is visible in Milan in two years, you can see at Dutch Design Week now." (more...) View the full article

John Pawson has applied his signature Minimalist style to the interior of British fashion designer Christopher Kane's first physical retail space (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Creative program producers Cut&Paste have teamed up with Intel and HP to run a new product design contest called LaunchBox, with over £14,000 in prizes to be won for potential crowdfunding projects. (more...) View the full article