Interiors
Interiors
Adrian Elizalde renovates 1930s tiled apartment in Barcelona
Patterned floor tiles mark out the original layout of this 1930s apartment in Barcelona, restored by local architecture student Adrian Elizalde. More
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Architecture
Architecture
NORD Architects unveils designs for Marine Educational Centre in Malmö
News: Danish studio NORD Architects has released designs for a new Marine Educational Centre in Malmö, Sweden, comprising a 700-square-metre visitor centre with a large overhanging roof structure that covers an external aquatic learning environment. More
Architecture
Architecture
Steel bolts break on Richard Rogers' Cheesegrater tower
News: two steel bolts have broken on Richard Rogers' Leadenhall Building in London, causing the area around the base of building to be cordoned off to pedestrians despite assurances that the building remains safe. More
Architecture
Architecture
COBE reveals competition-winning Volunteer House design for Danish Red Cross
News: Danish studio COBE has unveiled its designs for an extension to the Red Cross headquarters in Copenhagen, comprising a large triangular structure that rises up from the ground at an angle to meet the existing building. More
Architecture
Architecture
Studio Gang to regenerate former power plant as a student centre
News: Chicago studio Studio Gang Architects has revealed plans to convert a decommissioned power plant in Wisconsin, USA, into new facilities for an arts college (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Yoshio Ohno's black timber house straddles a concrete escarpment in Hiroshima
This blackened-timber house by Japanese studio Yoshio Ohno Architects is sat on top of a sloping concrete retaining wall (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
Oato's porcelain vases fit together to form miniature "landscapes"
Dutch Design Week 2014: domed porcelain vases in this trio by Dutch studio Oato have identical hexagonal footprints so they can be arranged together without any gaps in between (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Ian Shaw Architekten completes concrete villa on a German mountainside
A grey slate terrace that extends from the back of this mountainside property by Frankfurt studio Ian Shaw Architekten juts over the valley below (+ slideshow). More
Technology
Technology
MoMA acquires DIY electronics products to reflect technology's "significance" for design
News: New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has acquired a kit for building and programming a simple games console and four other DIY electronics products for the museum's collection of "humble masterpieces". More
Design
Design
Origami-influenced umbrella "bounces back into shape" after blowing inside out
American designers Justin Nagelberg and Matthew Waldman have reimagined the umbrella, replacing the traditional metal-framed canopy with a flexible structure that folds like origami. More
Medical
Medical
Japanese acupuncture clinic by id inc is lined with mint-green cabinets
Pale green medicine cabinets are stacked up along the walls of this Japanese acupuncture clinic by Tokyo design office id inc (+ slideshow). More
Furniture
Furniture
Ron Arad's Spring furniture collection "turned the direction of Moroso"
Movie: in the first of a series of exclusive video interviews filmed for Moroso, Ron Arad tells the story behind his first collection for the Italian brand, which he says helped it become "one of the leading firms in contemporary furniture." More
Architecture
Architecture
Giant openings puncture Elemental's "monolithic" concrete innovation centre
This concrete innovation centre at a Chilean university by Santiago studio Elemental has deep recessed windows designed to cool its network of communal interior spaces (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
"Design and architecture has been a key influence" says COS managing director
Interview: fashion brand COS is heavily influenced by architecture and design, says managing director Marie Honda, who tells Dezeen how the company built a global business with 104 stores in 25 countries without using conventional advertising or catwalk shows (+ slideshow). More
Competition
Competition
Competition: five Make:Shift innovation conference tickets to be won
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with the UK's Crafts Council to give away five tickets to its first Make:Shift innovation conference in London later this month. More
Residential
Residential
Lipton Plant Architects adds pale-brick extension to north London home
The upper storey of this brick extension to a mid-century home in north London by Lipton Plant Architects projects over the entrance to form a porch (+ slideshow). More
Furniture
Furniture
Form Us With Love designs plastic seating range for IKEA
Stockholm studio Form Us With Love has created "the most affordable objects" in its repertoire: a pair of moulded plastic chairs for Swedish furniture brand IKEA. More
Residential
Residential
3archlab's concrete courtyard house is positioned against a cliff
Staircases descend around a courtyard hidden inside this four-storey concrete house, set into a steep rock face in Mexico City by local studio 3archlab. More
Design
Design
Glithero exhibits artefacts as spectral illusions for Fantoom exhibition
Interieur 2014: antique objects from a Belgian museum's permanent collection appear as ghostly apparitions in an exhibition by London studio Glithero (+ movie). More
Design
Design
Mercedes designs G-Code concept car to reduce emissions in China's smog-filled cities
German car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz's new Beijing design studio has unveiled a concept hybrid Sports Utility Coupé (SUC) with a skin that generates electricity using solar and wind power. More