New York designer Xuhui Zhang has chosen minimal furnishings and mint green accents for a local Chinese restaurant as a conscious effort to redefine East Asian design. More about New York restaurant Junzi Kitchen is coloured to evoke "early spring in Northern China"
Black porcelain walls appear to fold up and around the huge windows and gardens of this luxury housing block, which Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos has staggered down a hill in Mexico City. More about Grass terraces zigzag up Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos' Mexico City apartments
Belgian architecture firm DMVA has transformed a 17th-century house with a facade just 2.4 metres wide into what might be Antwerp's smallest hotel. More about DMVA creates One Room Hotel inside 17th-century house in Antwerp
Northumbria University design graduate Will de Brett has redesigned the everyday electrical plug, making it pin-less and stackable to accommodate numerous devices. More about Pin-free Mi Plug project reimagines power outlets for the 21st century
We've created a Pinterest board dedicated to corrugated metal, including a quinoa warehouse with a wavy upper storey and a skinny home slotted into a dense Buenos Aires neighbourhood. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Anna Aagaard Jensen has designed a series of chairs to challenge social norms and encourage women to claim more space with their bodies. More about Anna Aagaard Jensen's A Basic Instinct chairs reinvent "manspreading" for women