Residential
Residential
Junichi Kato clads House in Shigaraki in dark brown-coated steel
The wooden frame of this two-storey family home in Japan's Shiga Prefecture is disguised by a layer of ridged steel panels (+ slideshow). More
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Architecture
Architecture
Concrete holiday homes by Adamo-Faiden occupy Uruguay's coastal woodland
Argentinian studio Adamo-Faiden has designed a group of concrete summer houses called Sociedad de Mar for a patch of forest on the coast of Uruguay (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Paritzki & Liani recreate Marc Chagall painting in perforated aluminium for Tel Aviv school facade
A primary school building in Tel Aviv features a facade of perforated screens patterned with an image from a painting by Russian-born artist Marc Chagall – the school's namesake. More
Interiors
Interiors
Studio Aa transforms Amsterdam boiler house into contemporary office space
Studio Aa has converted a former boiler house in south Amsterdam to create a new headquarters for a family-run investment company (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
Andreas Engesvik's hand-drawn grids inform textile patterns for Georg Jensen Damask
Norwegian designer Andreas Engesvik has created a range of textiles for Danish brand Georg Jensen Damask, with subtle patterns based on hand-drawn lines. More
Residential
Residential
Casa 4.1.4 by AS/D features separate living spaces for different generations of the same family
This house in Mexico for an elderly couple features four box-shaped buildings arranged around a central courtyard, three of which contain bedrooms and bathrooms for their visiting children (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
Bilge Nur Saltik's glass OP-vases create kaleidoscopic floral effects
London Design Festival 2015: Turkish designer Bilge Nur Saltik has created a line of hand-cut patterned glass vessels that create a kaleidoscope effect when filled with flowers (+ movie). More
Pinterest
Pinterest
Explore images of balloon-related design on our new Pinterest board
Since an installation comprising 100,000 balloons at London's Covent Garden has been so popular, we've created a new Pinterest board filled with designs that incorporate inflatables – or at least look like they do – including Marcel Wanders' ultra-lightweight chair and a cloud-like transport solution.
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Architecture
Architecture
Hyundai Card Music Library by Choi Moongyu is a lending library for vinyl records
A double-height space filled with rare vinyl records and magazines is the centrepiece of this music library and venue in Seoul, which was commissioned by credit card company Hyundai Card as a free space for its members (+ slideshow). More
Interiors
Interiors
Wooden gridshell by Anagrama forms shelves inside a Mexico library
Mexican firm Anagrama has installed a dome of interlocking wood panels at a library in Monterrey, creating bookshelves that arch over a stepped reading area (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
Light painting illuminates an arid landscape in Floating Points' Silhouettes music video
Music: patterns of light spring up around a Martian-like world in this music video that directors Pablo Barquin and Junior Martínez created for Floating Points (+ movie). More
Residential
Residential
Tropical Box house in Kuala Lumpur is wrapped in a concrete "egg crate"
Malaysian studio WHBC Architects wrapped this house with a gridded concrete facade, designed to create privacy while providing a frame for tropical plants to grow around the building (+ slideshow). More
News
News
This week, Google unveiled its new logo and the UK's "worst" building was named
This week on Dezeen: our roundup of this week's top stories kicks off with Google's new sans-serif logo (pictured), and also includes the winner of this year's Carbuncle Cup – an award created to name and shame bad architecture in the UK. More
Architecture
Architecture
Alma-nac skews upper level of Split House to capture best view of the sea
The top of this house for two former politicians near Hastings, England, has been angled and cantilevered to capture views of the sea and provide a covered parking space beneath (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Folded concrete canopy shelters Spanish bus station by Ismo Arquitectura
A cluster of concrete animal-feed silos loom over this pavilion-like bus station in western Spain, which was designed by Ismo Arquitectura to improve transport links to a fortified town (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
Memphis patterns influence homeware by Camille Walala
Pomo summer: textile designer Camille Walala's collection of home accessories patterned with bold graphics influenced by the Memphis Group will launch at this month's London Design Festival. More
US job of the week: project architect at Leeser Architecture
Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a project architect at New York design firm Leeser Architecture, which won a competition to design a hotel in the Zayed Bay district of Abu Dhabi (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
Architecture
Architecture
CEBRA wins international competition to design Smart School in Russia
Danish architecture studio CEBRA has won a competition to design an education campus in Irkutsk, Russia, which the firm described as "a new kind of school" (+ slideshow). More
Furniture
Furniture
Richard Hutten's X-Chair for Moroso is "actually quite complex"
Movie: Dutch designer Richard Hutten explains why he designed a chair with a distinctive X-shape on the back in the next movie in our exclusive video series for Italian furniture brand Moroso. More
News
News
Andrew Blauvelt named director of Detroit's Cranbrook Art Museum
Design curator Andrew Blauvelt has been appointed director of the Cranbrook Art Museum in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills. More