Japanese brand Muji has unveiled its design for a compact nine-square-metre prefabricated house, which will go on sale later this year. More about Muji to sell tiny blackened timber prefab huts for £21,000
Amazon has added to its family of connected-home products with the Echo Look, a camera that takes photos of outfits before rating them and giving a second opinion. More about Amazon's Echo Look is a personal robot stylist that helps you decide what to wear
French architect India Mahdavi has used different shades of quartz to create bold, geometric floor patterns in the womenswear section of historic Berlin department store KaDeWe. More about India Mahdavi references Bauhaus geometry with patterned interior for Berlin's KaDeWe
A shoe with a flip-down heel has won Nike's inaugural Ease Challenge, which saw designers come up with footwear innovations for disabled athletes. More about Nike announces trainers with "drawbridge" heels as winner of Ease Challenge
Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for an interior architect to join Faye Toogood in London, who designed gender-neutral retail spaces for department store Selfridges. More ›
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Nordic Office of Architecture has added a 300-metre-long extension with a curved roof to the airport in Oslo it designed in the 1990s. More about Nordic doubles the size of Oslo Airport with curved extension
San Francisco firm Arcanum Architecture has organised the massing of this large home around trees overhanging a broad lawn. More about Northern California home by Arcanum Architecture sprawls along verdant lot
The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture is being renamed the School of Architecture at Taliesin, as part of its break from a foundation established by the architect nearly 70 years ago. More about Frank Lloyd Wright architecture school gets new name and branding
With the first ever design week underway in the giant industrial city of Shenzhen in China, Dezeen takes a look at some of the newer and more unexpected additions to the calendar – including Riyadh, Medellín and Amman. More about Eight of the best design weeks that are off the beaten track
If today's architects abandoned their modern vocabulary in favour of populist traditional or classical styles, they could achieve more progressive social goals, says Phineas Harper in his latest Opinion column. More about "To confront populism, all architects should become classicists"
Architecture firm Sasaki has designed a hydroponic vertical farm for Shanghai, where leafy greens will be grown on rotating loops housed in a huge greenhouse. More about Sasaki designs hydroponic vertical farm for Shanghai
Dezeen promotion: The buildings of London, Bristol and New York inspired the latest collection by Italian tile company Ceramica Rondine, designed to look like different types of brickwork. More about Ceramica Rondine launches porcelain tiles designed to look like bricks
Andy Martin Architecture gutted this five-storey Georgian townhouse in Belgravia, adding glass pavement lights to the ground floor to allow natural light to filter down to the basement. More about Perforated steel and pavement lights let the sun pierce London townhouse by Andy Martin Architecture
Following the news that Balenciaga has released its own take on the IKEA Frakta bag, the Swedish furniture giant has devised a guide to help customers differentiate the 40p tote from its £1,705 counterpart. More about IKEA responds to Balenciaga's take on blue tote with spot-the-difference guide
Networking industrial machinery could transform manufacturing says German designer Clemens Weisshaar, in this talk Dezeen filmed for lighting company EWO. More about Connected industrial robots are dangerous but full of potential says Clemens Weisshaar
British firm Farrells has carved a large opening into the zinc-clad roof of its swimming pool complex in Hong Kong to offer outdoor bathers bay views. More about Farrells completes swimming pool with "shell-like" roof on Hong Kong waterfront
The historic Monte Carlo villa that Karl Lagerfeld occupied for over a decade opens to the public for the first time tomorrow, to showcase works commissioned by the world's leading design galleries. More about Karl Lagerfeld's former Monaco villa hosts new collectible design fair Nomad
Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a visualiser to join David Chipperfield's firm, whose recent designs include a residential building for New York's West Village.
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Here are 10 of the most iconic buildings designed by Chinese-American architect IM Pei, from a career that spans seven decades. More about 10 of IM Pei's most significant buildings
US firm Goettsch Partners has completed a glass skyscraper with a compact footprint, which responds to its placement next to active train tracks and the Chicago River. More about Riverside office tower in Chicago by Goettsch Partners rises from sharply tapered base