Cavernous Budapest metro stations feature concrete lattice overhead
Criss-crossing concrete beams brace the excavated walls of two new stations that have been added to the metro network in Budapest by local studio Spora Architects. More
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Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar: Domus Chair by Ilmari Tapiovaara
Number four in our festive A-Z of iconic chairs is the birch plywood Domus Chair by Finnish Modernist designer Ilmari Tapiovaara. More
Softly contoured interiors lend cave-like aesthetic to lakeside cabin
This basalt-clad cabin with a curvaceous wood-panelled interior has been perched by Atelier Oslo on a wooded slope high over a Norwegian lake (+ slideshow). More
RIBA reveals student medal winners for 2014
News: graduate designs for an industrial landscape overlaid with scenes from Winnie-the-Pooh and a bathhouse set into a volcanic quarry are the big winners at the RIBA President's Medals Student Awards this evening. More
Audi showcases Prologue concept car in Miami
Design Miami 2014: Audi's new head of design has created his first concept car for the brand, which is on display at this year's Design Miami event (+ movie). More
Luminaire curates DesignJapan exhibition during Design Miami
Dezeen promotion: design company Luminaire is curating an exhibition of contemporary Japanese furniture during Design Miami this week. More
Karl Mikael Ling's Pincher rack offers "a simple way to showcase your bike"
This simple rack made from just six components, by Swedish designer Karl Mikael Ling, is designed to simultaneously store and show off a bicycle in a small apartment. More
One World Trade Center is most costly skyscraper in history
News: figures released this week reveal that One World Trade Center is now the most expensive skyscraper of all time, having cost more than twice as much as the world's tallest building. More
Blond and Bieber's dyes made from algae "don't harm nature at all"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in this movie filmed at Dutch Design Week, Essi Johanna Glomb and Rasa Weber of Berlin studio Blond and Bieber explain how algae can be used to create completely non-toxic textile dyes. More
Red-brick boiler room converted into tiny guesthouse by Azevedo Design
San Francisco studio Azevedo Design has squeezed a small guesthouse featuring a glass mezzanine floor into the old red-brick boiler house of a converted laundry. More
Latin American Art Museum by Fernando Romero revealed for downtown Miami
News: Mexican architect Fernando Romero has unveiled his design for a Latin American art museum in Miami – the so-called "capital of Latin America" – during this week's Art Basel and Design Miami events (+ movie). More
Rene Siebum manipulates door handles to explore the sense of touch
Eindhoven designer Rene Siebum has added textures to a set of commercial door handles to investigate ways of making them more interesting to touch (+ slideshow). More
Clio Capeille imagines architecture that can only be used at night
Istanbul Design Biennial 2014: nighttime has become "an endangered species" says architecture graduate Clio Capeille, who has designed architectural structures especially for use after dark (+ slideshow). More
Mont-de-Marsan education centre comprises wooden boxes hovering over a forest floor
This row of timber-clad boxes projecting from an artificial grassy slope in France contains the teaching facilities of an apprentice training centre by architects Marjan Hessamfar and Joe Vérons (+ slideshow). More
Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar: Cabbage Chair by Nendo
C in our A-Zdvent calendar is for the Cabbage Chair by Japanese design studio Nendo, made using layers of waste paper from the fabric-pleating industry. More
Hundreds of cubes front Julien De Smedt's Gangnam housing block
JDS Architects used staggered balconies to create a cascade of cubes across the facade of this Seoul officetel – a kind of housing and workplace hybrid typical in South Korea (+ slideshow). More
Thomas Heatherwick's Garden Bridge given green light
News: Thomas Heatherwick's £175 million Garden Bridge proposal for London has been approved by Westminster Council amid claims it will be the "most expensive footbridge in the world". More
Buckminster Fuller's Fly's Eye Dome installed in Miami Design District
Design Miami 2014: a domed structure conceived by American Neo-Futuristic architect Buckminster Fuller as an "autonomous dwelling machine" has been installed in the Miami Design District. More
Adept creates timber-lined music rooms that each suit different instruments
Perforated and panelled woodwork line four acoustic rooms designed by architecture studio Adept for a museum in a former broadcasting house in Copenhagen (+ slideshow). More
"A disaster on a monumental scale"
Comments update: BIG's proposal for the Battersea Power Station development in London, a billboard by Zaha Hadid and the Comic Sans typeface have all made Dezeen readers irate this week. More