Visitors can save 40 per cent on display furniture on the final day of IKEA Festival in Milan, which also features the return of yoga and a painting robot. More about Dezeen at IKEA Festival: final day features yoga, painting robot and flash sale
Influenced by Herzog & de Meuron's recently completed leafy tower in Beirut, our featured Pinterest board this week is sowed with plant-covered buildings from around the world. It includes Studio 102's verdant office and showroom in Hanoi and a green Parisian apartment tower by Maison Edouard François. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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A pair of buildings with pitched roofs and white-washed exteriors form this home in rural Vermont by design-build studio Birdseye Design. More about Two white volumes frame central courtyard of Vermont home by Birdseye Design
Colourful blown-glass totems by Luca Nichetto are among the works in Decode/Recode, Venetian glassmaker Salviati's exhibition at Milan design week. More about Luca Nichetto fills room with totem-like glass lamps for Decode/Recode exhibition
Teenage Engineering is at IKEA Festival today giving demos of its Pocket Operator range of music devices after performing interactive synth shows for visitors in Milan this week.
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Japanese studio Form designed this top-heavy home for a family in Tokyo, placing their living spaces in an elevated volume that overhangs a gallery for its apron-designer owner. More about Bright white living spaces overhang gallery in top-heavy Tokyo house by Form
It's a busy Saturday at IKEA Festival in Milan, and in our latest video update we speak to the creator of a robot that paints with brushstrokes like a human.
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Launched at Milan design week, Jasper Morrison's Ni-jo sandals for Camper borrow the minimal appearance of tatami mats. More about Jasper Morrison references Japanese tatami mats for Camper sandals
The works of 11 Australian designers are being exhibited together within a 12th-century church courtyard and oratory during Milan design week. More about Australian designers take over the oratory in one of Milan's oldest churches
Inbetween Architecture has renovated and extended a dated brown-brick property in Melbourne's Doncaster suburb to improve the quality of its living spaces and capture views of nearby Ruffey Lake. More about Inbetween Architecture transforms "terribly dated" 1970s Melbourne house to open up lake views
The design world descended on Milan this week, where we've been reporting on the best installations, products and events at the city's annual celebration of creativity. More about This week, Milan hosted the world's largest design event
Yoga, a painting robot and Teenage Engineering's live synth show all make a return to today's programme of events and installations taking place at IKEA Festival. More about Dezeen at IKEA Festival: yoga, live synth shows and a painting robot feature again today
Fashion label Marni has designed a sandy playground for Milan design week that's filled with brightly coloured furniture and toys made using traditional weaving. More about Marni reinterprets childhood toys for colourful Playland installation
This house in San Francisco by local firm IwamotoScott has an angular facade made up of wooden elements, and a layout organised around a central staircase illuminated by a light well. More about IwamotoScott organises San Francisco home around light-filled stairwell
Building around a metal frame placed into ruins of a former engine room in the state of Yucatan, a team of Mexican architects have created a contemporary dining lounge. More about Metal beams frame restaurant inserted inside old Mexican textile factory
Architects Guillermo Hevia García and Nicolás Urzúa Soler have overhauled a school in central Chile, adding large skylights to an existing building and creating a new pavilion with a glass wall. More about Hevia García and Urzúa give Chilean school a new look with light chimneys and metal cladding
Two show apartments have opened inside Zaha Hadid Architects' 520 West 28th project, nearing completion in New York's Chelsea. More about Model apartments offer a taste of life inside Zaha Hadid's New York condo building
This week Formafantasma unveiled experimental lighting designs at Milan design week and Cerith Wyn Evans illuminated the Tate Britain with neon scribbles. Both feature in this week's Pinterest roundup of popular lighting installations. More about 10 luminous installations from Dezeen's Pinterest boards that received glowing responses
During the renovation of this Montreal home, local firm L McComber Architects reinterpreted its mock-Tudor facades with an expansion that echoes the architectural style. More about L McComber Architects gives contemporary update to Tudor-style home in Montreal
Dezeen promotion: a glowing wall that gently pulsates and chairs that showcase a spectrum of light and colour form the huge installation that Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka and LG have created in Milan. More about Tokujin Yoshioka and LG reveal science fiction-inspired light installation in Milan