Concertina shutters shade the windows of Naud & Poux's Paris retirement home
Hinged shutters fold up and down over the windows of this monochromatic care home near Paris by French studio Naud & Poux (+ slideshow). More
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LOHA's revamped Santa Monica bus shelters are blue discs on stilts
Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects has redesigned Santa Monica's bus shelters by developing a modular kit of parts that can be used to build an assortment of round blue canopies, supported on slender poles (+ slideshow). More
Rianne Koens’ stackable drawers function as cabinets, tables and stools
Istanbul Design Biennial 2014: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Rianne Koens stacked sets of different-sized wooden boxes on top of angled legs to form these furniture pieces. More
East London home by Mikhail Riches is "a big house that's been knitted back together"
Movie: architect David Mikhail explains how he transformed a typical 19th-century London house into a "great family home" with all of its "original dignity" in this movie produced by Living Projects. More
Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar: Garden Egg chair by Peter Ghyczy
The seventh entry in our A-Zdvent calendar is the Garden Egg chair by Hungarian designer Peter Ghyczy, which demonstrated new techniques for plastic production in the late 1960s. More
New Pinterest board: residential conversions
We've collected all kinds of residential conversions from the pages of Dezeen, from former warehouses and stables, to a transformed shophouse in Singapore and an old London post office, and added them to a new Pinterest board.