Design
Design
21 Grams is a sex toy that contains the ashes of a dead partner
Milan 2015: Dutch designer Mark Sturkenboom has created a "memory box" containing a dildo with a compartment for storing the ashes of a deceased partner. More
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Residential
Residential
Three-winged 36SML House by Levenbetts has a driveway carved through its middle
A driveway cuts through one wing of this three-pronged house in New York state, which is topped by a roof terrace with amphitheatre-style seating (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
Kacper Hamilton's brass device depicts time as solid matter
Milan 2015: London designer Kacper Hamilton has created a complex sand-timer that uses weights to measure the passing of seconds and minutes (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
New Pinterest board: tea houses
Our latest Pinterest board is filled with tea houses by architects and designers including Shigeru Ban, Sou Fujimoto and Tokujin Yoshioka.
Architecture
Architecture
Paris library by Agence Pascale Guédot angles around an old walnut tree
The chunky quartzite walls of this library on the outskirts of Paris are faceted to accommodate the span of a century-old walnut tree at the centre of the site (+ slideshow). More
Furniture
Furniture
Norwegian Presence exhibition showcases products at Milan design week
Milan 2015: furniture, ceramics and glassware by Norwegian designers have been collected together for an exhibition intended to show the country's contribution to Scandinavian design (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
Kilo Design creates modular headphones for Aiaiai
Danish studio Kilo has designed a set of headphones that allow users to create different arrangements of headbands, earpads, cables and speakers (+ movie). More
Design
Design
A' Design Awards and Competition 2015 winners announced
Dezeen promotion: the winners of this year's A' Design Award and Competition include a curvaceous wood-lined sauna and a lamp designed to be smashed by its user. More
Architecture
Architecture
Hawkins\Brown finds musical references for timber-clad school recital hall
British firm Hawkins\Brown has added a music school and boarding house to a school in Surrey, England, featuring sandy coloured brickwork and timber screens that reference musical annotation (+ slideshow). More
Restaurants/bars
Restaurants/bars
Matted electric cables cover the surfaces of a Tokyo bar by Kengo Kuma
Tufts of brightly coloured electrical cabling give the walls and furniture of this bar by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma a hairy appearance (+ slideshow). More
Lighting
Lighting
Polygons pendants combine computer modelling with Czech glass cutting
Milan 2015: these crystal-shaped lamps by Prague duo Jan Plecháč and Henry Wielgus were designed with 3D-modelling software but made using traditional Czech glass-cutting techniques. More
Retail
Retail
Seoul fashion boutique features yellow walls and an Eames bird above the entrance
An Eames House Bird stands guard on the porch of this tiny yellow building in Seoul, which has been adapted by Nordic Bros Design Community to house a fashion boutique (+ slideshow). More
This week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen
This week we reported on the latest setback to hit Thomas Heatherwick's Garden Bridge project, the downsizing of 3D-printing pioneer MakerBot and Renzo Piano's new home for the Whitney Museum (pictured). Read on to catch up with the latest architecture and design news. More
Architecture
Architecture
"Modern architecture needs projects like this"
Opinion: you don't have to like Thom Mayne's skyscraper for Vals to understand that architecture needs fantastical projects like it, says Owen Hatherley. More
Design
Design
Furniture and lighting brands move into "big wonderful world" of fragrances
Milan 2015: design companies are launching fragrances, scented products and cosmetics to diversify their brands into new markets (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
What Design Can Do offers 15% off tickets for Dezeen readers
Dezeen promotion: Dezeen has teamed up with the annual What Design Can Do conference to give readers a 15 per cent discount on tickets for this year's event in Amsterdam. More
Architecture
Architecture
Renzo Piano's "prodigiously misassembled" Whitney Museum is a grower, say critics
Renzo Piano's new building for one of New York's most prestigious museums has been described by critics as an "art tanker", "ungainly" and "more clunky than romantic" – but they like it anyway. More
Pavilions
Pavilions
Tokujin Yoshioka installs glass tea house beside an ancient Japanese temple
Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has built a transparent glass tea house beside a historic Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan (+ slideshow). More
Job of the week: industrial designer with Fernando Romero
Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for an industrial designer at the firm of Mexican architect Fernando Romero, who is designing one of the biggest airports on earth with Norman Foster (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
Augmented reality
Augmented reality
MINI's augmented-reality glasses allow drivers to see through the body of their car
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in this exclusive video interview, Jörg Preißinger of BMW Group Research and Technology explains how the prototype augmented-reality glasses his team have developed can make the solid parts of a car appear transparent. More