Dezeen archive: this week we featured a set of chairs that join together like shopping trolleys to encourage park visitors to tidy them away when they leave (top right) so we thought we'd look ahead to warmer weather by grouping together all our stories about outdoor furniture. See all the stories »
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A fabric cloak stretched across the glass facade of this golf ball-shaped office and showroom shades it from direct sunlight. More about iGuzzini Illuminazione España SA Headquarters by MiAS Architects
Spanish designer Héctor Serrano expands his range of children's temporary tattoo puppets with these finger transfers. More about Finger Farm and Finger Fairytale by Héctor Serrano
This time last year French designer Matali Crasset completed a village of quirky hotel rooms in the Tunisian desert and Italian silversmith Gianfranco Pampaloni shocked both Dezeen readers and Florence residents by hanging a pierced animal's heart in his shop window for Valentine's day. More about One year ago...
This week on Dezeen we published an interview with industrial designer Marc Newson about his new camera for Pentax. You can also watch highlights from Fabio Novembre's talk about his work and inspirations plus changes in the Italian design scene on Dezeen Screen. More about This week on Dezeen
Dezeen Platform: Canadian designer Eric Cheung of AT.AW. presents his range of Orphans Plush toys in this movie we filmed at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space. The stuffed toys evolved from an earlier mass produced street-art series called The Orphans. Read the full story here. More about Dezeen Platform: AT.AW.
Dezeen Wire: the Cité Radieuse housing estate in Marseille, one of the most famous works by Swiss architect Le Corbusier and the first building in his influential Unité d'Habitation project, has been damaged by fire in a blaze that began in a first floor apartment yesterday afternoon - Guardian
Stockholm 2012: Note Design Studio present a collection of furniture inspired by camping and field trips at Stockholm Design Week this week. More about Marginal Notes 2012 by Note Design Studio
Oriented strand board lines every wall, floor and ceiling inside this residential barn extension in Norfolk, England, by London studio Carl Turner Architects. More about Stealth Barn by Carl Turner Architects
Stockholm 2012: designers Elin Carlsten and Elisabeth Thostrup show this cabinet with sliding metal doors suspended from wheels on a rail as part of the Greenhouse exhibition of young designers at Stockholm Furniture Fair this week. More about Reel Cabinet and Tie Desk by Carlsten Thostrup
Dezeen Platform: London-based Swedish designers studio vit present their project Eleven Boxes in this movie filmed at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform. The wooden storage units are all different, designed to be used individually or stacked in any combination. Read the full story here. More about Dezeen Platform: studio vit
Threads of plastic hang like hair from the ceiling of this dark beauty salon in Belgrade, Serbia. More about Cabello by a2rhitektura
Stockholm 2012: these outdoor chairs by Stockholm designer Thomas Bernstrand are joined together like shopping trolleys to encourage park visitors to tidy them away when they leave. More about Share by Thomas Bernstrand for Nola
Huge window bays project from the fat cylindrical volume of this apartment block in Tilburg, the Netherlands, by Dutch architects Bedaux de Brouwer. More about Duikklok by Bedaux de Brouwer Architecten
Architects T38 studio and Pablo Casals-Aguirre have completed a house in Tijuana, Mexico, with a twisted first floor that cantilevers across the garden. More about House in Tijuana by T38 studio and Pablo Casals-Aguirre
This small bookshop in Bratislava, Slovakia, has a climbing wooden floor that allows it to double up as an informal auditorium. More about Alexis by Martin Jančok and Aleš Šedivec
The four concrete wings of this house in Girona, Spain, appear to hover in the air above an underground entrance (photographs by Filippo Poli). More about Casa Pocafarina by Hidalgo Hartmann
Stockholm 2012: Oslo designer Thomas Jenkins of Studio Jenk presents a series of candle sticks made of three different metals but with exactly the same weight at the Greenhouse exhibition of young designers at Stockholm Furniture Fair this week. More about All Other Things Being Equal by Studio Jenk
In the second part of this discussion we filmed at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Milan designer Fabio Novembre talks about changes in the Italian design scene and compares his ethos to those of other Italian designers. The talk took place as part of Peroni Nastro Azzurro's series on Italian design. More about Peroni Collaborazioni Talks: Fabio Novembre part 2
Hong Kong firm O Studio Architects have completed a stark concrete church on the side of a sacred mountain in China. More about Church of Seed by O Studio Architects