
Here are some new images of the Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum designed by Zaha Hadid for Michigan State University, which has been given permission for construction to begin. More »

Here are some new images of the Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum designed by Zaha Hadid for Michigan State University, which has been given permission for construction to begin. More »

London designer Thomas Heatherwick has designed a biomass power station for the bank of the river Tees in the UK. More »

Dutch designer Mieke Meijer has created a bed that is merged into a pair of chairs. More »

Thai architects Architectkidd and product designers Osisu have collaborated on a project where spare bits of cladding have been made into furniture. More »

Portuguese designer Rui Grazina has designed a cube-shaped jewellery box with a drawer on each face. More »

Italian architects modostudio have won an invited competition to design a new headquarters for a private arts and sciences foundation on top of a mountain at Laives, close to Bozen in Italy. More »

French designers Paul Coudamy and Benoit Coulondres have completed the interior of a printer's office using a clamp-together desk system. More »

More cardboard! Peter Masters of Burnt Toast Designs has designed the interior for a menswear shop in Manchester, UK, using recycled cardboard boxes and tubes. More »

Work starts next spring on the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany, designed by Austrian architects Coop Himmelb(l)au. More »
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Belgian designer Bart Lens has designed a ceiling lamp for eden design which, at four metres wide, they claim is the largest lamp in production. More »
Dezeenwire: Spanish architecture and design book publisher ACTAR has bought Swiss publisher Birkhäuser. More details from Actar below: More »

Jeweller Marc Woods has created a series of fetishistic objects for an exhibition at the Wapping Project in London. More »