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A curved serving counter clad with a honeycomb pattern of white tiles occupies the front space of this cafe in San Francisco, California, by OpenScope Studio (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Christopher Turner is leaving British design and architecture magazine Icon to join the organisation behind London's annual design festival. (more…) View the full article

Last month's Łódź Design Festival showed the work of the most promising Polish design talents alongside thematic exhibitions and workshops. Here are ten up-and-coming designers and their projects. Read more

Chunky wooden columns and beams support the sloping timber ceiling of this small pharmacy by Japanese studio Ninkipen! in the city of Ogaki (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: American furniture company Emeco has unveiled a new seating collection made using reclaimed materials by British designer Jasper Morrison at Milan's Salone Del Mobile furniture fair. (more…) View the full article

German practice IFUB has completed a pair of timber homes in Munich that are subtly differentiated by the direction of their diagonal larch cladding and different coloured blinds. Read more

Automobile maker Ford has borrowed anti-collision technology from its cars to build a supermarket trolley that children can't crash. Read more

News: OMA has presented a vision to transform a former tobacco plant in Louisville, USA, into a hub for growing and selling food, featuring an edible garden, a coffee roastery and a recycling centre (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Indian firm Morphogenesis has become one of the world's first architecture practices to report a gender pay gap in favour of its female employees. Read more

A steel-framed pergola covered in willow reeds shades the frontage of this seaside sailing school in Cádiz, Spain, by architects Héctor Fernández Elorza and Carlos García Fernández (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A tall white wall wraps around the base of this house in Tsukuba City, Japan, screening it from the street and creating the illusion of a triple-level structure (+ slideshow). (more…)

Argentinian architect Luciano Kruk has created a family home that follows Mies van Der Rohe's "conception of architecture as the expression of structure". Read more

The Arvo Pärt Centre, which is dedicated to the Estonian composer, is deep in an pine forest and has no main entrance or exit. Read 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

Dutch designer Teresa van Dongen has filled a glass tube with octopus bacteria to create a zero-electricity lamp that glows blue when disturbed (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

The white walls of this modern family home by FCC Arquitectura nestle behind the deteriorated stone facade of a former farmhouse and granary in northern Portugal (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dubai is undergoing its "next wave of development" after bouncing back from the 2008 financial crisis, according to a local architect. (more…) View the full article

Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre has a triple height glazed foyer with a timber ceiling designed by Haworth Tompkins for a school in Cambridge. Read more

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with YOO, Martha Schwartz Partners and Speedo International, whose SpeedoFastskin3 racing suit and goggles are pictured. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with HAY, Ron Arad Associates and MAD Architects and more... (more...) View the full article

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Foster + Partners, PriestmanGoode and MAD Architects, whose design for an art museum on Chicago's lakefront is pictured. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Duggan Morris, Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group, the V&A and more... (more…) View the full article

A plywood staircase with built-in cupboards and bookshelves frames a doorway in this Madrid apartment – which follows the London home with a combined bookshelf and staircase we published yesterday. (more…) View the full article

Photo essay: a shark in a corridor and a toad seated on a filing cabinet are among the scenes found by Austrian photographer Klaus Pichler when he went backstage at the Natural History Museum Vienna (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The New York branch of architecture firm OMA has unveiled its design for the extension to the city's SANAA-designed New Museum. Read more

The vast LocHal library and events space, designed by Amsterdam-based studio Civic Architects, occupies a former glass and steel locomotive shed in Tilburg, the Netherlands. Read more

This wooden chair by British designer Jasper Morrison was created for use in a Tanzanian orphanage and will be sold to fund the centre's development. (more…) View the full article