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Designs by Vivienne Westwood, Jean Paul Gaultier and Rei Kawakubo feature in this fashion exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which aims to explore and question assumptions about gender-specific clothing. Read more

Dutch Design Week 2015: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate David Roman Lieshout's prototype bicycle has individually foldable components that help it fit into compact storage areas. (more…) View the full article

ODA has revealed visuals of Post, an adaptive reuse scheme that will revive Rotterdam's former post office, and include the construction of a 150-metre-high tower. Read more

Dezeen Watch Store is popping-up today and tomorrow at hotel design show Sleep 2012, where you can browse a selection of our watches by named designers and independent brands, including the new 203 Series by London watch brand Uniform Wares (above). (more…) View the full article

American studios MSR Design and JRA Architect have completed a public library in Louisville featuring a sculptural, medal-clad exterior that is partly concealed by tall, leafy trees. Read more

Design Indaba 2015: the design industry has lost touch with its social and cultural values and is producing "too much shit design", according to Hella Jongerius. (more…) View the full article

News: parts of Zaha Hadid Architects' Library and Learning Centre in Vienna have been cordoned off after a piece of concrete cladding fell off. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2015: leading designers have spoken out about the "awful" intrusion as visitors and journalists scramble to grab photos and interviews at design fairs. (more…) View the full article

Business news: luxury brand B&B Italia could be sold to a major American furniture group, Dezeen understands. (more…) View the full article

Two dance studios at the top of this copper-clad music conservatory in Paris by local studio Basalt Architecture project outwards from the facade to capture plenty of natural daylight (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: architects Ludovica Serafini and Roberto Palomba have designed a collection of outdoor furniture for Spanish brand Expormim, in tribute to Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor. Read more

Kooo architects has added wooden beams to a cafe in China to form a woven lattice across the ceiling that lets in light (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

To see 2014 out with a bang, we've pulled together our most read stories of the year – including a silk leaf that could create oxygen in space, furniture for space-poor hipsters and a house with a swimming pool instead of a roof. (more…) View the full article

American firm Sparano + Mooney Architecture has covered a family home in Utah with hundreds of weathering steel plates to give the exterior a textured appearance (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

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

MATA Architects has added a timber-clad extension to a house in north London, with windows concealed behind large shutters that can be opened using mechanical winches. Read more

Con Form Architects has converted a small London loft into a bright home office by inserting a glazed section with a large steel dormer window. Read more

Hedi Slimane has developed a new visual identity for the stores of fashion label Celine, redesigning its New York, Paris, Tokyo and LA locations with steel, marble, and mirrored interiors. Read more

Safdie Architects' soon-to-open Jewel Chang Airport contains the world's tallest indoor waterfall, but it's not the first building to incorporate an oversized water feature. Here are eight buildings that include waterfalls. Read more

French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have collaborated with Swarovski to design six bronze fountains embellished with over 3,000 crystals on the Avenue de Champs-Elysées in Paris. Read more

German architect Heike Hanada has completed a minimalist concrete museum to celebrate the Bauhaus in Weimar, where the design school was founded 100 years ago. Read more

Small wooden houses contain play areas and swinging furniture at this Buenos Aires cafe for both adults and children by architect Íris Cantante (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This "floating" art and literary museum by American studio OLI Architecture is housed in a grouping of textured concrete blocks, which are elevated over a lake in China's Zhejiang Province (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The volume dial is the only focal point on London designer Paul Crofts' pared-back amp, created for new hi-fi company Audioberry (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

New York 2016: US artist Nicole Nadeau has used one of her own breasts to create a mould for a collection of hexagonal tiles complete with pink nipples. (more…) View the full article