Apollo Architects & Associates swapped timber frames for concrete and fibre-reinforced plastic to reduce the cost of building this house and studio for a fashion photographer in Tokyo (+ slideshow). More
Magnetic fastenings hold together these billowing layered outerwear garments by Kingston University graduate Phoebe Kowalska. More
Movie: Pritzker Prize-winning architect Toyo Ito tells Dezeen that, while his buildings vary in material and style, the key to all of them is their close relationship with the people that inhabit them. More
Dezeen promotion: UK design show designjunction will bring together showrooms across central London to form the West End Design Quarter during this year's London Design Festival. More
Lithuanian designer Ingrida Kazenaite has developed a conceptual pen that would mend damaged clothes by "printing" over rips and tears. More
A man-made leaf that could help humans colonise space, blown-glass sex toys and seven architect-designed bus shelters (pictured) feature in Dezeen Mail issue 213. Click through for the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
Opinion: the AstroTurf lawn installed on the roof of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art symbolises the next step in our acceptance and desire for artificial nature, says Alexandra Lange. More
News: these new images by Foster + Partners reveal a pair of skyscrapers proposed by the firm for San Francisco's rapidly developing Transbay area. More
Fashion studio The Unseen has created a gemstone-encrusted headdress that changes colour in response to varying energy levels in the brain. More
British firm DSDHA has created a new studio and gallery for ceramic artist Edmund de Waal within the shell of a converted munitions warehouse in south London (+ slideshow). More
Berlin studio Läufer + Keichel has designed a lightweight chair for German manufacturer Schneiderschram based on the wooden crates used to transport fruit (+ slideshow). More