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This simple rack made from just six components, by Swedish designer Karl Mikael Ling, is designed to simultaneously store and show off a bicycle in a small apartment. (more…) View the full article

A swimming pool on the roof of this concrete residence by Brazilian office Studio MK27 sits within the dense canopy of a coastal rainforest in São Paulo state (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Seattle architect Tom Kundig has designed a collection of over 100 hardware items including drawer pulls, door handles, fire pokers and shovels. He spoke to Dezeen about his "modifiable, morphable" and growing product range (+ transcript + slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Israeli designer Roee Magdassi has abstracted the shapes of different animals and combined them to influence the forms of three furniture pieces (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A rare prefabricated one-room house designed by Jean Prouvé in 1945 is on sale at Design Miami for $2.5 million (+ movie + interview). (more...) View the full article

Aberrant Architecture has created a huge playground in a former Madrid slaughterhouse, based on the work of Dutch architect Aldo van Eyck. Read more

News: OMA is set to transform part of a former shipyard in Shanghai into a 1,500-square-metre exhibition centre, after winning an international design competition. (more…) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Portuguese architect Samuel Gonçalves has installed three hollow concrete forms at the Venice Biennale to promote his modular housing system based on drainage pipes (+ movie). (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

Japanese architect Makiko Tsukada has completed a house in Yokohama with a cave-like interior that opens out to one of two rooftop lawns (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Swanke Hayden Connell Architects – the firm behind the Fifth Avenue Trump Tower and the Statue of Liberty restoration – has filed for bankruptcy, claiming that it is owed $2 million dollars by a Russian client. (more…) View the full article

Today Dezeen Jobs launches a careers guide profiling people with inspiring jobs in architecture, interiors and design. First we interview Ray Winkler, design director at entertainment architecture studio Stufish, which creates stages for musicians like the Rolling Stones and U2. Read more

News: toy brand Lego has revealed the design by Danish studio BIG for a visitor centre based on its famous plastic bricks. (more...) View the full article

News: Google has unveiled a new prototype of its modular smartphone with swappable components, which project leader Gadi Amit says will allow users to "be the designer of their own phone" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Using a custom-designed structure suited to extreme conditions, Italian studio LEAPfactory has constructed a new building for a ski and snowboard school beside the highest mountain in the Alps (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Beijing studio MAD has completed an opera house in the Chinese city of Harbin, featuring an undulating form that wraps two concert halls and a huge public plaza (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

An arched tunnel is formed between these two houses located beside a Japanese tea garden near Tokyo (+ slideshow). (more…)

Mica-Bar by 3andwich Design occupies a concrete volume poking out over a river running through the village of Wangjiatuan in China. Read more

News: Dutch firm OMA has seen off competition from Danish studio BIG to land the high-profile commission to renovate Miami Beach Convention Center, home to the annual Art Basel/Miami and Design Miami trade fairs. (more...) View the full article

Munich architecture studio IFUB has overhauled a 1930s apartment in Vienna, uncovering original details like parquet flooring and adding contemporary lighting and black steel fittings (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Photographer Marc Goodwin has captured the architecture offices of eight firms based in Panama's capital city for his latest studio photography set. Read more

French architect Jacques Garcia's third project for the NoMad hotel chain, located in the newly opened Park MGM in Las Vegas, aims to transport the elegance of a European home to the flamboyant Strip. Read more

Fashion designer Pauline van Dongen has developed a knitted cardigan with integrated stretch sensors that measures the movement of elderly wearers (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

French designer Ora ïto has revealed his tram designs for the Mediterranean city of Nice, which will be charged through the ground rather than via overhead cables (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

News: trend forecaster Li Edelkoort has published her Anti_Fashion manifesto, outlining why she believes the fashion industry "is going to implode". (more…) View the full article