Members of a private club pay to exchange elaborately wrapped presents in ceremonies held inside this dimly lit, wood-lined room in Paris (+ slideshow). More
The Amsterdam-based architecture studio led by architect Ben van Berkel has designed a round table with multiple levels to encourage office workers to be more active. More
In this exclusive movie, the founder of Studio Gang Architects explains how her design for the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership in Michigan was intended to bring human rights issues out of "invisible places" and into public consciousness (+ movie). More
A 100-kilometre array of floating barriers designed by a 20-year-old inventor aims to clear the oceans of waste plastic, and is one of the projects shortlisted for this year's Designs of the Year award (+ slideshow). More
Facebook's Frank Gehry-designed headquarters (pictured), a light-reflective safety spray for cyclists, and new renders of Tadao Ando's first apartment block in New York feature in this week's Dezeen Mail. Click through for the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
Opinion: the elevated highways that cut through major cities around the world were once heralded as harbingers of modernity, but are now seen as pollution-generating, space-guzzling monsters. Will Wiles wonders if they're really all that bad. More
British architect Richard Rogers is gifting the seminal Wimbledon home he designed for his parents in the late 1960s to the Harvard Graduate School of Design. More
Foster + Partners has completed a new city hall for the Argentinian capital, featuring a wavy concrete roof, a quadruple-height atrium and a glazed facade offering views out to the park (+ slideshow). More
Movie: designer Arik Levy explains why he wanted to design a range of bent-wood chairs in this movie produced by Dezeen for Czech furniture brand TON. More
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with London's Design Museum to give readers the chance to win five pairs of tickets for the Designs of the Year 2015 exhibition. More
An arched tunnel is formed between these two houses located beside a Japanese tea garden near Tokyo (+ slideshow). More
Mexican design studio Peca has launched a collection of candle holders made from marble spheres that can be split in two. More
Positioned in a pine grove on the Swedish coastline, this concrete house features an entirely glazed facade so that residents can catch glimpses of the Baltic sea through the tree trunks. More
Online furniture brand Hem has opened its first physical shop, occupying the ground floor of the company's headquarters on Berlin's Friedrichstrasse (+ slideshow). More
Benjamin Hubert's studio developed a modular system of display plinths and wall mounts for this year's Designs of the Year exhibition at the Design Museum in London (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2015: Japanese design studio Nendo has unveiled a series of glass tables that will form part of its solo exhibition during this year's furniture fair in Milan. More
The sloping roofline of an old extension to a London residence is surrounded by the pale brickwork of its replacement, designed by local studio Tsuruta Architects (+ slideshow). More
A vision for a skyscraper containing swamps, mountains, glaciers and a jungle has been named the winner in a competition to come up with futuristic ideas for high-rise living. More
Photographer Ed Reeve has applied for planning consent to dig a private railway station underneath his home – the David Adjaye-designed Sunken House in north London. More
Milan 2015: French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have created two chairs and two tables for Swiss furniture brand Vitra, which will debut at Milan design week next month (+ movie). More