Spheron Architects used mirrors, wooden cabinets and white net curtains to furnish this 26-square-metre room in London, creating a space for an artist to live and work as a hermit. More about Artist can live life of solitude in micro apartment that emulates a religious retreat
Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for an architect to join Scottish firm Dualchas Architects, which is teaming up with Norwegian studio Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter on a cliffside visitor centre in the Outer Hebrides. More ›
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The Conran Shop has partnered with Vitra to produce a limited-edition Eames Lounge Chair with an updated shell and upholstery. More about The Conran Shop launches limited-edition Eames Lounge Chair in new colour combo
American firm Modal Design has created a studio building for a video art collector in California, which features an angular roof and multi-tonal zinc cladding. More about Jagged roof tops video studio in Venice Beach by Modal Design
Boston architecture firm NADAAA has remodelled a 1920s Washington DC residence by extending the attic, adding large windows, and using plywood sheets to arrange the internal layout. More about NADAAA overhauls brick house in Washington DC with ample glazing and a plywood interior
This renovated Manhattan apartment by Russian architect Peter Kostelov features tucked-away furniture that pulls out to suit the needs of its user. More about Peter Kostelov creates transformable rooms for New York apartment
The Dubai Frame is due to open later this year – even though an ongoing lawsuit filed by its architect, Fernando Donis, alleges the design is stolen. More about Dubai Frame nears completion despite architect's claims of copyright breach
Tel Aviv brand Iota will make its Milan Design Week debut next month with a collection of petal-like poufs, stools and rugs crocheted from bespoke yarns. More about Iota's crochet furniture provides an income for out-of-work women
The developer behind plans for New York's tallest timber-framed building, designed by SHoP Architects, has axed the project. More about SHoP Architects' wooden skyscraper for New York gets the chop
International architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox has revealed plans for a supertall skyscraper in Miami, which will match Foster + Partners' twin towers at the city's maximum height limit. More about One Bayfront Plaza by KPF set to become Miami's joint-tallest building
Estonia's e-residency programme suggests how passports could more accurately reflect the rich and complex nature of identity, says Dan Hill, following the launch of our Brexit passport design competition. More about "Who will design a passport capable of containing multiple nested identities?"
Boxy volumes with blue undersides shelter terraces in this deep-ocean research centre in Shenzhen, China, designed by Open Architecture to have sea-like features. More about Blue-bottomed boxes form Open Architecture's ocean research centre in Shenzhen
Six radical designs for the Moscow skyline – proposed in the wake of the October Revolution, but never built – are showcased in an exhibition opening today at London's Design Museum. More about Design Museum's Imagine Moscow exhibition explores six unbuilt Soviet landmarks
British designer Lee Broom is celebrating his studio's 10th anniversary with a brutalism-inspired grandfather clock, which he will launch during this year's Milan design week. More about Lee Broom designs marble grandfather clock influenced by brutalist architecture
KC Design Studio has updated a 3.7-metre-wide house in Taiwan by adding a perforated facade and a lightwell, both intended to combat the lack of daylight in the 50-year-old property. More about KC Design Studio adds perforated facade and atrium to skinny Taiwanese townhouse
Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a London-based industrial designer to work with Marc Newson, whose recent designs include a pair of limited-edition Air Max trainers that celebrated the shoe's 30th birthday. More ›
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Hungarian designer Krisztina Czika's cups might resemble familiar IKEA mugs but they're actually made from human hair embedded in wax. More about Krisztina Czika makes mugs using human hair and leg wax
Architect, photographer and artist Dan Hogman has chosen 12 favourites from his collection of ink sketches depicting buildings and streetscapes. More about Dan Hogman's architectural sketches "capture the essence" of their subjects
Portions of Zaha Hadid's residential building in New York are set to become art galleries, while more exhibition spaces designed by Studio MDA will also be created underneath the adjacent High Line elevated park. More about High Line Nine galleries to surround Zaha Hadid's New York condos
Chinese brand Nio has announced it will bring a fully autonomous electric car to the market in the next three years, but has offered a preview of its plans with a concept vehicle on show at the SXSW event in Texas. More about Nio launches driverless electric car concept – and plans to make it reality by 2020