Say goodbye to the January blues with our new Pinterest board, dedicated to beachfront properties boasting sea views, including Seascape Retreat – a honeymoon cottage in New Zealand – and a holiday home named The Ocean House. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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Large-scale coloured mirrors recreate the iridescent beauty of Johannesburg's toxic sunsets in this installation by architecture studio Counterspace. More about Folded Skies installation mimics the light created by Johannesburg's mine dust
Mexican architect Rozana Montiel waived her fee to design this small house in Ocuilan, Mexico, for a family that was impacted by the earthquake that hit the country in 2017. More about Rozana Montiel builds pro-bono home for Mexico earthquake victims
Studio Robert McKinley has transformed a motor lodge into the minimal and rustic Hotel Joaquin, providing an escape in Orange County, California. More about Robert McKinley renovates 1930s motor lodge into minimal retreat in Laguna Beach
A timber cabin in arctic Norway and an off-grid dwelling in rural Greece are among some of the architect-designed vacation homes listed in new book Holiday Architecture, and all available to rent this year. More about Eight architect-designed holiday homes available to rent in Europe
London-based designer Robin Grasby uses offcuts from luxury marble workshops to create a terrazzo material he calls "beautifully chaotic". More about Altrock is a terrazzo made using waste from the marble industry
This week on Dezeen, we revealed OMA's design for the largest football stadium in the Netherlands, while Foster + Partners announced plans to build a 350-metre-tall skyscraper in Shenzhen. More about This week, OMA designs a football stadium and Foster + Partners plans a skyscraper
An old coastal fortification in Cape Town has been transformed into an urban park, skatepark and garden by South African studio DHK. More about Battery Park brings skateboarders to V&A Waterfront in Cape Town
Rubber flip flops have been designed by Sam Morrison with contradictory tweets posted by Donald Trump over the years on each foot. More about Trump's contradictory tweets emblazoned on President Flip Flops
Chilean studio DRAA has created a tall, V-shaped cabin with exterior walls wrapped in charred wood and large windows that provide expansive views of the rugged terrain. More about La Dacha Mountain Refuge built from blackened wood in Chilean Andes
Toy company MGA Entertainment has preemptively sued Louis Vuitton in an attempt to prevent the fashion house from taking actions that might impact sales of its slime-filled children's purse Pooey Puitton. More about Pooey Puitton toy purse makers file lawsuit against Louis Vuitton
Fabricating the structure of this Long Island home remotely allowed New York City studio Resolution 4 Architecture to minimise disturbance to its waterfront site. More about Prefabricated modules form waterfront North Fork Bluff House by RES4
British-Ghanaian fashion designer Joe Casely-Hayford has passed away aged 62, after losing a three-year fight with cancer. More about Fashion designer Joe Casely-Hayford dies at 62
David Chipperfield Architects has teamed up with Karakusevic Carson Architects to create a pair of matching, hexagonal housing towers on an estate in east London. More about Karakusevic Carson and David Chipperfield unveil sister towers in London's Hackney
Kohn Pedersen Fox has designed the Azrieli Tower, a 340-metre-high supertall skyscraper for Tel Aviv that will be the tallest building in Israel. More about KPF unveils scrolling supertall Tel Aviv skyscraper that will be Israel's tallest building
Fashion label Hugo Boss has launched a range of vegan men's shoes made from a natural material consisting of pineapple leaf fibres called Piñatex. More about Hugo Boss designs vegan shoes that replace leather with pineapple-based material
Engineers at Columbia University have 3D-printed a block of "digital wood", using a voxel technique that enables the creation of objects with rich internal textures. More about Columbia University researchers create 3D-printed "wood" with realistic internal grain
Tham & Videgård Arkitekter has revealed designs for a prefabricated housing scheme in Gothenburg, Sweden, which aims to be an alternative to traditional terraced houses and prioritises green space. More about Tham & Videgård Arkitekter unveils plans for prefabricated Vertical Village II in Sweden
Huge elevated boxes creates private tearooms inside this cafe in a Shanghai warehouse, designed by locally based studio Linehouse. More about Linehouse adds elevated tearooms in a warehouse for Tingtai Teahouse in Shanghai
A British Army recruitment campaign targets "snowflakes, selfie addicts, class clowns, phone zombies, and me, me, millennials" in boring jobs, with a design that draws on first world war recruitment posters. More about British Army calls on "snowflakes" and "millennials" in recruitment drive