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Stockholm 2015: Australian designer Glen Baghurst has launched his first collection of furniture and products, influenced by materials and forms from Britain to Morocco (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A painted-timber skin that skirts around the top storey reveals the heights of staggered floors inside this Hamburg house. Designed by Kraus Schoenberg, it's the W in our A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about Haus W » View the full article

Design Indaba 2016: industrial designer Benjamin Hubert has explained why he shifted his energy away from furniture design, saying "everyone seems to be designing the same thing" in the sector. (more…) View the full article

A huge clay-tile roof envelops the remnants of a 12th-century monastery in this project by Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects, which is one of the nominees for this year's Mies van der Rohe Award. Read more View the full article

Dutch designers Bernotat & Co have created a range of coverings for chairs that are modelled on a grandma's dressing gown, baggy overalls and an oven mitt. (more...) View the full article

Architect Liam Young has developed a series of animated panoramas depicting visions for cities of the future, including an urban landscape exclusively owned and operated by technology brand Samsung (+ movie). (more…)

Highlights from Milan design week, a clifftop house in Japan by John Pawson and a bicycle by Ikea features in this week's edition of Dezeen Mail. Read Dezeen Mail issue 302 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

News: from April visitors to the Czech city of Pilsen will be able to visit three restored interiors designed by influential Modernist architect Adolf Loos in the early 20th century (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

At 320-metres-high the Bestseller Tower, designed by Danish firm Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter for the small town of Brande in Denmark, will be the tallest in western Europe. Read more

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Habitat, MAD Architects and Mint, whose gallery featured the Booming Vases collection (pictured). This is also the last chance to apply for roles with PriestmanGoode, UNStudio, Foster + Partners and more... (more…) View the full article

Colours inspired by the Mexican city of Monterrey are used to decorate the interior of this taco restaurant in Vigo, Spain by locally based designers Erbalunga Estudio. Read more

A team at MIT Media Lab has used bacteria to design a "bio-skin" fabric that peels back in reaction to sweat and humidity (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

French architect Jean Nouvel teamed up with botanist Patrick Blanc to create this pair of plant-covered Sydney towers that reflect light into their lower levels with a huge cantilevered panel of mirrors. (more...) View the full article

News: Foster + Partners has released photographs of its new Apple store in Hangzhou – one of five new shops that the company is opening in China ahead of Chinese New Year (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Barcelona studio Nook Architects has revamped a fourth apartment in one building in the city's Gothic quarter using leftover materials from the previous three projects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

RooyDaad Architects created this monochrome house as a weekend retreat from their practice in Tehran, and based its design on a housing model by Le Corbusier (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2013: pulses of electricity change the colour of this workstation unveiled by designer Ron Arad at Salone in Milan this week (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

To celebrate its 10th year, Mattiazzi is launching seating by Jasper Morrison, Konstantin Grcic, Foster + Partners and Industrial Facility, who guest art-directed the collections. Read more

Barend Koolhaas created Eenwerk & IBO, a gallery and graphic design studio, by slotting a basalt and steel structure between two brick houses, in Amsterdam. Read more

News: a new smartwatch from Pebble that promises seven days of battery life has reached its $500,000 Kickstarter goal in less than 20 minutes. (more…) View the full article

This week, Dezeen reported on the best installations, product launches and events at Milan design week. Read more

Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron has released a full set of images of the Vitra Schaudepot – a new gallery for the permanent collection of the Frank Gehry-designed Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Small-scale fittings, blackboards walls and round toilet cubicles are incorporated into this kindergarten in Japan, designed by architecture studios Hibino Sekkei and Youji no Shiro around a garden playground (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The US has had eight buildings by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List after 15 years of campaigning. Read more

This 14-storey riverside residential block in Brisbane, named Walan, is conceived as a stack of traditional Queenslander residences with characteristic 360-degree verandas. Read more