Emanuel Hostel by Lana Vitas Gruić
Bunk bed booths provide sleeping sanctuaries at this hostel in Split, Croatia, by local designer Lana Vitas Gruić (+ slideshow). More
Bunk bed booths provide sleeping sanctuaries at this hostel in Split, Croatia, by local designer Lana Vitas Gruić (+ slideshow). More
Ten years after completing the Ílhavo Maritime Museum in Portugal, Lisbon studio ARX Portugal has extended the building by adding an aquarium dedicated to codfish (+ slideshow). More
Californian designer Chad Wright has made a sandcastle mould of a typical American house to recreate post-war suburbia on the beach (+ slideshow). More
Nine stone cabins are sheltered beneath a single thatched roof in this addition to a hotel resort in Nha Trang, Vietnam, by architecture practice a21studio (+ slideshow). More
News: urban improvements such as cycle paths, parks and public transport could transform Brooklyn and help turn New York City into the USA's leading location for technology firms, according to plans unveiled this week. More
News: British architect Colin Stansfield Smith, a pioneer of UK school design, has died at the age of 80. More
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has revealed his competition-winning design for a campus of timber buildings to house the headquarters of watch brands Swatch and Omega in Biel, Switzerland. More
Interview: German industrial designer Richard Sapper has launched a new website chronicling his work dating back to the 1950s. In an interview looking back on his career he tells Dezeen how he turned down the chance to work at Apple, how design has been "degraded" by commercialism and how 3D printing could help solve unemployment (+ slideshow). More
This time-lapse movie by photographer Paul Raftery and filmmaker Dan Lowe documents the construction of "the Cheesegrater", a 225-metre skyscraper by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners that topped out today in the City of London. More
Competition: Dezeen readers can win one of five pairs of tickets for the Awards Preview Evenings at London graduate exhibition New Designers 2013 on 26 June or 3 July. More
Technology startup Edison Junior Design Laboratory has created a doorbell that allows users to see who's at their door remotely on their smartphone or tablet. More
This elliptical chapel near Oxford by London studio Niall McLaughlin Architects contains a group of arching timber columns behind its textured stone facade (+ slideshow). More
Clothes printed with artist Richard Woods' woodgrain graphics featured in this week's Spring Summer 2014 show by London fashion studio Sibling. More
This kit by Royal College of Art graduate Neil Merry allows musicians to control sound and lighting effects at their gigs by slinging the microphone around or waggling their instruments about (+ movie). More
News: Scandinavian firm CF Møller has revealed proposals that could see the world's tallest timber-framed building constructed in Stockholm. More
Following our story on SOM's contorted Cayan Tower in Dubai, here's a roundup of twisted skyscrapers from the Dezeen archives. More
News: Dutch firm OMA has won a competition to design a pair of skyscrapers in Stockholm, Sweden, with a proposal featuring staggered facades. More
Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win a copy of trend forecaster Li Edelkoort's new book exploring fetishism in fashion. More
News: Burj Khalifa architect Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) has added another skyscraper to the Dubai skyline with the completion of the twisted Cayan Tower. More
Sweepings collected in this dustpan designed by Jan Kochański can be diposed of through a funnel in its handle (+ slideshow). More