Black frames outline rows of olive oil bottles at this culinary shop in Toronto, while images of olive branches decorate the walls behind. More »

Every floor of this Tokyo house by Japanese studio Keiji Ashizawa Design opens onto a garden or terrace. More »

American architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have won a competition to design a skyscraper for China with proposals that incorporate a 30-storey-high opening window. More »

Dezeen Wire: architect David Chipperfield, the curator for this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, has revealed that the title for this year's show will be Common Ground. More »

Dezeen Wire: an annual report released by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat in Chicago reveals that the number of buildings over 200 metres tall completed in the last year has increased for the fifth consecutive time. More »

San Francisco designer Yves Behar of fuseproject has designed a range of pill containers for new brand Sabi, launched today. More »

A curving chasm slices off the corner of this showroom building in western Tokyo to create a passageway to its entrance. More »

This mirror with blurry edges reflects a rather dreamy image of its surroundings. More »

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Italian architects 3S Studio have converted a former railway tunnel between two north Italian towns into an enclosed pedestrian passageway. More »

Dezeen Watch Store: we now have the best-selling VOID range of watches in new finishes at Dezeen Watch Store. More »

Here are some images by photographer Iwan Baan of a house by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, where rectangular windows puncture three layers of walls and ceilings. More »

In this third of four interviews with some of the designers who'll be part of Dezeen Watch Store and friends at the Interiors UK exhibition in Birmingham from 22 January, Swedish designer Johan Lidehäll presents his Bookman bicycles lights. More »

The asymmetric timber roof of this distillery by architects Hammerschmid Pachl Seebacher rises up amongst the trees of a valley in Upper Austria. More »