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Dezeen Watch Store: Eclipse, the latest timepiece from Ziiiro, has a luminous ring in place of hour markers and is now in stock in three colour variations. (more...) View the full article

The Lunar watch by Hong Kong-based brand Ziiiro, which tells the time with light and dark segments, is now available to purchase from Dezeen Watch Store. Read more View the full article

Rio 2016: to protect them from the Zika virus during the Rio Olympics, South Korea's athletes are wearing repellent-infused uniforms that keep mosquitoes at bay. (more…) View the full article

Swiss artist Zimoun has used motors to add jostling and spinning motions to three installations made up of cardboard boxes (+ movies). (more...) View the full article

News: the city of Almere in the Netherlands has selected a small curvy chapel designed by architect René van Zuuk to be constructed over the surface of the Weerwater lake. (more...) View the full article

Scottish studio Konishi Gaffney has constructed a huge dormer window to convert the loft of a terraced house in Edinburgh into an extra bedroom. (more...) View the full article

The Woodhouse Hotel, located in the remote village of Tuanjie in China's Guizhou Provence, is formed of 10 wooden cabins dotted amongst a forest on a mountain. Read more

The timber stalactites of an undulating cave-like ceiling bear down around the bar of a coffee shop in Łódź, Poland. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swiss design studio ZMIK has transformed three corridors at a primary school in Basel into flexible learning-spaces designed to promote a sense of wellbeing. Read more View the full article

Books can be stored beneath the wide steps of this staircase, designed by Zminkowska De Boise Architects to connect the two halves of a split-level living room inside a renovated London flat. (more…) View the full article

French designer Emmanuelle Moureaux has fitted out a Japanese spectacle shop with modular boxes in her signature colour blocks. (more...) View the full article

Yves Behar's San Francisco studio Fuseproject has designed an octagonal portable charger that can accommodate a computer, a smartphone and a tablet at the same time (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The ceiling of a drama studio in Milan is imprinted with inverted bubbles that house both spotlights and skylights. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architectural elements based on wine bottles and barrels create a contemporary vaulted ceiling in this wine shop in Valladolid, northwest Spain by Zooco Estudio. Read more View the full article

Paris landscape designers TN Plus and architects Beckmann N’Thépe have designed a zoological park on a series of artificial islands for the outskirts of St Petersburg. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Californian architects amphibianArc have designed a shape-shifting “transformer building” for a Chinese machinery company, with a facade that flaps like the wings of a huge insect (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Californian firm amphibianArc was inspired by images of spacecrafts to come up with two different skyscraper proposals for the headquarters of a Chinese machinery company in Changsha (+ slideshow + movies). (more…) View the full article

More from Italian design brand Alessi: here are a couple of images showing a ceramic vase by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas Architects. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Sri Lankan practice Zowa Architects has used bamboo canes to shroud the glazed walls of this boutique hotel in Uttarakhand, India, which cantilevers out to give optimal views of the Himalayas. Read more View the full article

Zozaya Arquitectos has created a traditional palapa with a dried palm roof at the centre of this house in a Mexican beach village. Read more View the full article

Hungarian design student Zsanett Szirmay has transferred folk embroidery patterns onto strips for a punched card music box, which plays the traditional motifs as sounds (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Hungarian designer Zsofia Kollar has used human hair to create a series of scented objects, including a wall hanging and a U-shaped necklace (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2010: Eindhoven designer Kiki van Eijk presents a collection of wooden furniture with ceramic drawers for the Zuiderzee Museum at the Ventura Lambrate district in Milan this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Actor Brad Pitt has lauded praise on Peter Zumthor as the Swiss architect's plans for Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles are approved. Read more

News: Swiss architect Peter Zumthor is now inviting guests to rent a holiday home he built for his family in the mountain hamlet of Leis in Vals (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article