This week last year designers BarberOsgerby were appointed to design the Torch for the London 2012 Olympic Games, while they later unveiled in June, a fashion designer and an architect showed a collection of 3d-printed clothing and a boulder-shaped mausoleum opened in Acapulco. More »
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. More »
Dezeen Platform: in this movie we filmed at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform last autumn, designer Paulo Benvegnú represents her own family in the shape of her Family Tea set. More »
Slideshow: Lisbon architects ARX Portugal and Stefano Riva have completed a top-heavy house in the village of Aldeia de Juso with a concrete upper storey settled over the glazed walls below. More »
Dezeen promotion: the next series of London Pecha Kucha talks kicks off at the Design Museum on Tuesday 28 February, with speakers including illustrator and artist Noma Bar, design historian Patrick O’Shea and architectural photographer Jim Stephenson. More »
Slideshow: a select number of garments at this fashion store in Osaka are presented inside a white cage-like tunnel. More »
Here’s our second project this week by architects Kengo Kuma and Associates - a rural Italian villa converted into a showroom for ceramics company Casalgrande Padana. More »
Slideshow: this underground house by London studio De Matos Ryan tunnels beneath a listed stone tower in Gloucestershire, England. More »
Architects Kengo Kuma and Associates have installed a Starbucks coffee shop on the approach to a Shinto shrine in Dazaifu, Japan. More »
Dezeen Platform: design graduate Clinton Sheldon uses salvaged components from British furniture makers Ercol to make a series of lighting and furniture in this film made at Dezeen Platform during Dezeen Space last autumn. More »
Slideshow: car brand MINI will present a panel-van version of the MINI Clubman at the International Geneva Motor Show next month. More »
Slideshow: Zurich designers Atelier Volvox rescued these unloved plush toys and gave them a new lease of life by turning them inside out - eyes and all. More »
Slideshow: Australian practice March Studio conceived this Melbourne bakery as an oversized breadbasket. More »
Slideshow: Spanish studio Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos filled a Madrid warehouse with makeshift huts and a wilderness of plants to accommodate a nomadic music academy organised by drinks brand Red Bull. More »
Dezeen Wire: Spanish architect Luis Moreno Mansilla has passed away at the age of 53 - El Periódico
Mansilla was of of the founding partners of Madrid studio Mansilla+Tuñón, whose work includes the Fine Arts Museum in Castellón and the Lalìn Town Hall - which you can see in our earlier story here.
