Residential
Residential
House of Yabugaoka has its ground floor sunken for privacy
The ground floor of this Osaka home by Japanese architect Masatoshi Hatamoto is sunken below street level to create more privacy for its residents (+ slideshow). More
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Skyscrapers
Skyscrapers
Studio Dror's conceptual tower designs for New York offer three takes on high-rise architecture
Designer Dror Benshetrit has unveiled three proposals for residential towers on different sites in New York. More
Architecture
Architecture
Lowline creators launch Kickstarter campaign for underground park in New York
Creators of the proposed Lowline in New York, billed as the world's first underground park, have launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund development of the project (+ slideshow). More
Interiors
Interiors
Tables, benches and an ironing board unfurl from the walls of a Madrid apartment by Elii Architects
Wooden furnishings have been integrated into the walls of this compact Madrid apartment by Elii Architects, allowing them to be folded away when not in use (+ movie). More
Design
Design
Happaratus "power glove" carves objects with its fingertips
Graduate shows 2015: Royal College of Art graduate Morten Grønning Nielsen has designed a glove that can be used to sculpt hard materials like stone and wood by hand (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
Colour-changing condoms proposed to detect sexual infection
A group of UK schoolchildren has won an award for a conceptual condom design that would change colour when it comes into contact with a sexually transmitted infection. More
Promotion
Promotion
Call for entries to the A' Design Awards and Competition 2016
Dezeen promotion: entries are now open for architects and designers to submit projects for the A' Design Awards and Competition 2016 (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Oslo architecture students build a wooden sauna that steps over the Norwegian landscape
Graduate shows 2015: students from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design have designed and built a seaside sauna made up of three wooden bands that stagger up over the rocky terrain (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
MINI relaunches its brand and offers Airbnb-style sharing to car owners
Car brand MINI has relaunched its visual identity, unveiled a new version of the MINI Clubman estate and embraced the "sharing economy" by offering every customer the chance to rent their vehicle to others when they don't need it (+ slideshow). More
Interiors
Interiors
Fairphone's Amsterdam offices built inside an old warehouse using reclaimed materials
The Amsterdam offices of smartphone manufacturer Fairphone were created inside a former industrial building – and informed by the same sustainable design principles the company uses for its products (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Guggenheim Helsinki winners: "architecture is best conceived in reserve and introspection"
Moreau Kusunoki Architectes, the Paris-based practice that will design the Guggenheim Helsinki, has deliberately avoided media attention since it was founded in 2011. Dezeen looks at the unknown French-Japanese office that has won the biggest architecture competition of the year (+ interview). More
Design
Design
"Power glove" allows users to sculpt materials by hand
One-minute movies: Royal College of Art graduate Morten Grønning Nielsen has designed a motor-powered glove with oscillating pads that allow users to sculpt hard materials like stone and wood by hand. More
Design
Design
Andrés Jaque's giant water purifier unveiled in MoMA PS1 courtyard
Spanish architect Andrés Jaque has created a towering network of water-purifying pipes for this year's courtyard installation at MoMA PS1 in Queens, New York (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Tapered office building in Seoul avoids overshadowing its neighbours
This office block for a cosmetics company in South Korea's capital was designed by architect Dongjin Kim as a conical volume, to ensure surrounding buildings still get adequate daylight and privacy. More
Residential
Residential
House B by Format Elf contains two floors within its large asymmetric roof
Format Elf Architekten has disguised a three-storey family home as a two-storey building by incorporating both upper floors within a large asymmetrically pitched roof (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
MVRDV's Spijkenisse library has become a "proud mountain of books" says Winy Maas
In the first of a series of exclusive movies profiling buildings by Dutch firm MVRDV, architect and studio co-founder Winy Maas looks back at Book Mountain – a library contained within a glass pyramid. More
Architecture
Architecture
Glass elevator and steel bridge by Vaumm connect two neighbourhoods in a Spanish town
This glass-encased lift and elevated walkway have been created by architecture studio Vaumm to improve access between the new and historic centres of Spanish town Hernani (+ slideshow). More
Comments
Comments
"Good taste has nothing to do with sexism"
Comments update: is this image sexist? Photos of model in an Australian house prompted a discussion on the way women are represented in architecture. Read more on this and more lively comment threads on Dezeen. More
Lighting
Lighting
LED technology means designers are "obliged to redesign all lights" says Philippe Starck
Philippe Starck has spoken about the pros and cons of technology, saying that designers are morally obliged to use the latest materials to create more efficient products – but warned that dependence on screen-based devices is "sick" (+ transcript). More
Promotion
Promotion
Designers rebrand defunct perfume labels for Be Open's The Garden of Wonders
Dezeen promotion: designers including Jaime Hayón, Nendo and Front created scent-related installations for the Milan exhibition of creative thinktank Be Open (+ slideshow). More