Korean designer HwaSung Yoo of Mars has designed a table and chair made of extruded aluminium with a cross-section inspired by frost patterns. More »

Dezeenwire: Building Design magazine reports that former Architectural Review editor Paul Finch has been appointed chair of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). BDonline

French designers Benjamin Riot & Valentin Sollier have designed a chair based on the DSW chair by Charles and Ray Eames. More »

Amsterdam artists Afke Golsteijn and Floris Bakker of Idiots have sent us images of their new collection of jewellery and objects featuring stuffed animals. More »

German architects Anne Menke and Winkens Architekten have completed an extension to an existing 1950's house in Hameln, Germany. More »

Graduate designer Charlotte Kingsnorth has designed a chair made from a single sheet of folded felt. More »

Japanese designer Ryohei Yoshiyuki has designed an ash tray made of used coffee grounds. More »

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Dezeen podcast: in our latest podcast for the Design Museum in London, graphic designer Colin Forbes reminisces about his design partner and friend Alan Fletcher, with whom he co-founded Fletcher/Forbes/Gill in the 1960s and subsequently Pentagram in the 1970s. More »

Designers The Functionality have built a canopy constructed from 2,452 newspaper hats. More »

Canadian architects Bricault Design have completed a plant-covered extension to a house in Venice, Los Angeles. More »

Japanese design company Nendo have created a speaker shaped like a bird cage. More »

New York architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro have won a competition to design the Museum of Image and Sound in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. More »

Estonian architects Kosmos have completed a five-storey apartment block with a ground-floor shopping area in Tallinn, Estonia. More »

Architects Herzog & de Meuron have designed a new museum building for the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York, USA. More »