Design
Design
LG targets luxury market with metal smartwatch
News: electronics company LG has unveiled an updated version of its G Watch R smartwatch that is designed to look like a luxury timepiece (+ slideshow). More
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Architecture
Architecture
Kengo Kuma designs Tokyo hospital wrapped around a garden
News: Japanese firm Kengo Kuma + Associates has unveiled plans to replace an ageing Tokyo medical centre with a louvre-clad hospital built around a landscaped garden. More
Architecture
Architecture
Concrete and timber retirement house sits amongst a Dutch orchard
Board-marked concrete forms the walls of this rural home designed by Belgian studio Marie-José Van Hee Architecten for a Dutch businessman (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Herzog & de Meuron unveils updated design for Hong Kong M+ museum
News: Herzog & de Meuron has revealed the latest images of its design for M+, the new museum of visual culture that recently broke ground in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District (+ slideshow). More
Furniture
Furniture
Muller Van Severen to present new furniture at Viaduct exhibition
Belgian studio Muller Van Severen will debut its latest pieces of furniture and lighting that "ooze a sort of fruitiness" at London gallery Viaduct next month (+ slideshow). More
Technology
Technology
Galleries around the world are finally "starting to take digital art seriously"
Movie: in this film produced by Dezeen for the British Council, leading artists and curators discuss the increasing significance of digital art and the new opportunities open to artists working "in a digital age." More
Retail
Retail
Kois Associated Architects furnishes Athens jewellery shop with metal "forest" and smoke
A veil of smoke clouds the window of this jewellery shop in Athens, behind which Kois Associated Architects has installed display cases modelled on trees (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Holy Cross House by TBA hides a multi-level courtyard behind a "working-class facade"
Behind a shimmering aluminium facade, the rooms of this Montreal house are organised around a three-tiered courtyard that allows daylight to funnel through to every storey (+ slideshow). More
Furniture
Furniture
Yuki Yoshikawa accentuates Grain Chair with painted patterns
Stockholm 2015: Japanese designer Yuki Yoshikawa of Nanashiproducts used layers of acrylic gouache paint to highlight wood grains on the seat and back of these simple chairs. More
Pavilions
Pavilions
Smoking Room by Gianni Botsford Architects is a translucent-concrete garden folly
Gianni Botsford Architects worked with translucent concrete to create this boxy garden pavilion in Zurich, dedicated to "the old fashioned art of smoking" (+ slideshow). More
Technology
Technology
Five useful ideas from the World Cup of Drones
We've picked five of the best realised prototypes and proposed uses for unmanned aerial vehicles from Dubai's World Cup of Drones. More
Furniture
Furniture
Aalto University students design chairs from bright blue plywood
Stockholm 2015: furniture design students from Helsinki's Aalto University have used blue-coloured plywood and black tubular steel to form sculptural chair prototypes. More
Architecture
Architecture
Studio Fuksas to design Australia Forum convention centre in Canberra
News: Studio Fuksas has been selected to design a major new convention centre in Canberra, with a proposal that features wavy floors and a bulging, elliptical roof. More
Lighting
Lighting
Icy pendant lamp drips back into its mould for refreezing
Stockholm 2015: Swedish designers Siri Bahlenberg and Sofia Bergfeldt have created a lampshade made of ice that slowly melts back into its mould so it can be re-frozen and used again (+ movie). More
Architecture
Architecture
BIG's curvaceous Calgary skyscraper breaks ground next to Foster's Bow tower
News: construction is now underway on the 66-storey Telus Sky Tower designed by Bjarke Ingel's firm for Calgary, Canada (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Blackened-timber boathouse completed by Weiss Architecture on a Canadian island
This blackened-timber boathouse and pavilion designed by Weiss Architecture occupies a cedar jetty that projects out from the rocky coastline of an Ontario island (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
Apple rumoured to be working on an electric car
News: technology giant Apple is designing an electric vehicle that could revolutionise automobiles and challenge electric car manufacturer Tesla, according to reports that emerged over the weekend. More
Architecture
Architecture
Marine science museum by Foster + Partners starts on site in Taiwan
News: Foster + Partners has unveiled its design for a new National Museum of Marine Science and Technology in northern Taiwan, which has now begun construction. More
Interiors
Interiors
Beijing office for architecture firm Spark boasts a swivelling wall and a plywood room
Exposed brickwork, unfinished plywood and a wall of pivoting metal doors all feature inside the new Beijing office of Chinese architecture firm Spark (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Twisted roof connects the angular facades of Archi-Union's Songjiang Art Campus clubhouse
Chinese firm Archi-Union Architects has completed a campus for an art school on the outskirts of Shanghai featuring a clubhouse building with a twisting roof (+ slideshow). More