Patchy timber shields the glazed upper storeys of this town hall extension in southern Spain by architects Viar Estudio. (more…)

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Baeza Town Hall by Viar Estudio is a post from: Bedroom Sets Online

Rather than design a run-of-the-mill skyscraper for a new hotel in Xian, China, architects 3Gatti decided to put lots of smaller buildings on a gigantic set of shelves. (more…)

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Shelf Hotel by 3Gatti Architecture Studio is a post from: Bedroom Sets Online

Designed in Hackney: here’s another design classic from the London borough of Hackney – Paul Cocksedge‘s pendant lamp made from heat-shrunk plastic cups. (more…)

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Styrene by Paul Cocksedge is a post from: Bedroom Sets Online

Paris firm Moussafir Architectes have blanketed the roof of this concert hall in Tours, France, with a synthetic material that looks more like a quilt. (more…)

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Le Temps Machine by Moussafir Architectes is a post from: Bedroom Sets Online

Dezeen archive: this week in Milan a lamp that blows bubbles around itself attracted a lot of attention, so we’ve grouped together all of our stories about bubbles made from soap, plastic or otherwise. See all the stories »

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Slideshow: a bronzed box window peers out like a periscope from the auditorium of this cathedral visitor’s centre in Lund, Sweden, by architect Carmen Izquierdo. (more…)

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Domkyrkoforum by Carmen Izquierdo is a post from: Bedroom Sets Online

This school table by industrial design students Arthur Brutter and Ido Bruno is specifically designed to form a safe shelter for pupils during earthquakes. (more…)

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Earthquake Proof Table by Arthur Brutter and Ido Bruno is a post from: Bedroom Sets Online

This table with folding trestle legs by Spanish designer Tomás Alonso is one of nine new products that Japanese furniture brand Karimoku New Standard will present at Erastudio Apartment Gallery in Milan later this month. (more…)

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Karimoku New Standard at Erastudio Apartment Gallery is a post from: Bedroom Sets Online

Slideshow: the undulating oak underbelly of four auditoriums bursts through the glazed facade of this concert hall in Kristiansand, Norway. (more…)

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Kilden performing arts centre by ALA Architects is a post from: Bedroom Sets Online

Slideshow: the modular fenestration of this school building in western Switzerland was inspired by shapes from 1980s computer game Tetris. (more…)

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ESGE Ecole Secondaire de Genolier by ipas is a post from: Bedroom Sets Online

Dezeen archive: following our story about the much awaited western concourse at King’s Cross station by John McAslan & Partners, we decided to group together all of our stories about stations for this week’s archive feature. See all the stories »

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Designed in Hackney: this week’s first iconic project designed in the London borough of Hackney is Dirty House, a black-painted art studio and apartment building in Shoreditch with a brightly illuminated roof completed by architect David Adjaye in 2002. (more…)

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Slideshow: Rotterdam studio 2by4-architects designed this gabled summer house so the walls of one corner fold open. (more…)

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Recreational Island House by 2by4-architects is a post from: Bedroom Sets Online

Austrian architect Wolfgang Tschapeller has won a competition to overhaul the University of Applied Arts Vienna with proposals that include facade-climbing staircases and giant balloons. (more…)

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University of Applied Arts Vienna by Wolfgang Tschapeller is a post from: Bedroom Sets Online

This week sports brand Nike launched a range of knitted running shoes, car brand Mini unveiled a panel-van version of the Mini Clubman and RCA graduate Min-Kyu Choi put his award-winning folding plug graduation project into production.

A website called Arch Leaks was launched to revel the secrets of architecture firms and some users immediately set about creating and rating fake practices, while open-source designs for spectacle frames cut from 18mm plywood stirred up an amusing debate among our readers.  ”We are currently working on the next iteration of WikiGlasses – a range of 18mm ply open-source contact lenses,” comments the designer.

Meanwhile construction began on David Adjaye’s Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC and Kengo Kuma and Associates showed a Starbucks outlet that one reader claims is “possibly the coolest coffee shop ever.”

Our most popular story featured a house in hiding with a secret doorway while a stripy, faceted, monochrome church interior had even our least pious readers ready to convert.

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These earrings by Japanese jewellery designer Akiko Oue can be added to and reconfigured since they’re made up of tiny magnetic circles. (more…)

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Mag・net・ic by Akiko Oue is a post from: Bedroom Sets Online

A single-storey studio at the bottom of the garden of a semi-detached house in London creates a separation between work and domestic life for its residents. (more…)

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Suburban Studio by Ashton Porter Architects is a post from: Bedroom Sets Online

Hong Kong firm O Studio Architects have completed a stark concrete church on the side of a sacred mountain in China. (more…)

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Church of Seed by O Studio Architects is a post from: Bedroom Sets Online

New design brand One Nordic Furniture Company will launch during Stockholm Design Week next week with an inaugural collection by Swedish studio Form Us With Love. (more…)

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Bento by Form Us With Love for One Nordic Furniture Company is a post from: Bedroom Sets Online

The display system at this Japanese souvenir shop in Paris is just key rings hung on screws in the walls. (more…)

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Bukiya by Archiee is a post from: Bedroom Sets Online