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Milan 2013: French architect Jean Nouvel unveiled a pair of leather and rubber boots for Italian shoe brand Ruco Line at the Interni Hybrid Architecture and Design exhibition in Milan this week. (more...) View the full article

Each tab on this credit card-sized pack by American designers Bolt Group can be torn off and used as a USB stick. (more...) View the full article

3D-printed casts for fractured bones could replace the usual bulky, itchy and smelly plaster or fibreglass ones in this conceptual project by Victoria University of Wellington graduate Jake Evill. (more...) View the full article

News: Jimenez Lai of Chicago architecture studio Bureau Spectacular has won the inaugural Lisbon Triennale Début Award, presented to an architect under 35 in recognition of an outstanding career so far. (more...) View the full article

Following the popularity of a house extension that curves around a tree, we've created a new Pinterest board filled with extensions to residential buildings. See our new residential extensions Pinterest board » Over 100,000 people now follow us on Pinterest - join them here. View the full article

Holidaymakers can now spend nights sleeping beneath the surface of the ocean at this partially submerged hotel suite in the Zanzibar archipelago (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

A mixture of transparent and translucent glazing creates varying levels of privacy inside this dimly lit office created for a mortgage broker in Melbourne (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: Herzog & de Meuron has revealed the latest images of its design for M+, the new museum of visual culture that recently broke ground in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Rafael Viñoly's Walkie Talkie skyscraper in London stole the limelight when it reflected the September sun onto cars parked nearby and caused them to melt. (more...) View the full article

A twisting chain-link and barbed-wire fence installed by French artist and architect Didier Faustino at an exhibition in Cincinnati determines the path taken by visitors through the gallery space. (more...) View the full article

Danish designer Simon Legald has created a set of stacking melamine trays with softly rounded edges for design brand Normann Copenhagen (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Irish designer Johnny Kelly has debuted a short movie that attempts to show how design impacts on everyday life using basic shapes and without words (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

A 38 metre high treehouse was popular with readers last week, so we've created a new Pinterest board that collects together treetop dens, hotels and houses from the pages of Dezeen. See our new Pinterest board » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See all our stories about treehouses View the full article

Imagine the vistas you could take in from these examples of skywalks and viewing platforms, which we've pinned onto a new Pinterest board. See our new Pinterest board » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See all our stories on viewing platforms View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: artist Lucy McRae explains how she plans to vacuum-pack visitors at the Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition in September to prepare their body for long-haul space travel. (more...) View the full article

Norm Architects has built a cluster of minimalist "houses" in a former warehouse on Copenhagen's Paper Island to create a showroom for Danish design brand &tradition. (more...) View the full article

Alexander Fehre used aluminium-mesh partitions and metal light fittings to suggest an industrial aesthetic in this showroom and office for a conveyor-belt company in Germany (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Danish architecture studio EFFEKT has triumphed in a competition to design a street sports facility in and around a crumbling train engine roundhouse in Esbjerg, south-west Denmark (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: a seven-mile-long skating rink proposed for the Canadian city of Edmonton could allow commuters to ice skate or toboggan to work and school during winter months (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Comments update: Apple's newly launched MacBook computer and Will.i.am's comments on 3D-printing human bodies were the most discussed stories this week. (more…) View the full article

The Lockheed Lounge by Australian designer Marc Newson has retained its title as the world's most expensive design object, after selling for more than £2 million. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Danish acoustic panel manufacturer Troldtekt is inviting architects and designers to submit projects featuring innovative uses of wood wool panels for the chance to win €5,000 (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Modernist designer Enzo Mari has given Berlin-based CUCULA the rights to redesign and sell his Autoprogettazione furniture to raise funds for its refugee support programme (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The warm glow of traditional light bulbs could return to homes and replace cold-looking LEDs, thanks to research conducted by a team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). (more…) View the full article

Homeware and furniture from a range of Norwegian designers including Andreas Egesvik and Lars Beller Fjetland will go on display at the Structure exhibition in Milan's Ventura Lambrate district next month (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article