Rama Estudio has fronted this apartment block in Ambato, Ecuador with wooden louvres to encourage interactions between residents and passersby. More about Wooden shutters shade Edificio Criba apartments in Ecuador by Rama Estudio
Design firm Estudio Yeye used a limited palette of colours and materials to create a "simple and efficient" design for a cafe that serves up Mexican coffee. More about Wooden pegboards wrap walls of Mexico's Negro Blanco Café by Estudio Yeye
Veld has clad a former blacksmith's workshop in zinc panels and whitewashed its blackened interior to convert it into a home extension in Belgium. More about Veld turn former blacksmith's workshop into home extension in Belgium
Swiss company Moving Walls has extended its range of activity-based office furniture with a table that can also be used as a presentation panel for the wall. More about Moving Walls' latest office table doubles up as a wall-hung whiteboard
Our new Pinterest board is dedicated to sustainable design, including an eco-friendly coffin that uses fungus to biodegrade the body and MIT's self-growing sandbars, islands and beaches. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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Aberrant Architecture has created a huge playground in a former Madrid slaughterhouse, based on the work of Dutch architect Aldo van Eyck. More about Landscape for Play is a huge colourful playground in Madrid
Works by Heatherwick Studio, Paul Cocksedge and Nendo feature in an exhibition at New York gallery Friedman Benda, which pools together artists and designers from Generation X. More about New York exhibit An Accelerated Culture celebrates Generation X designers
Design firm Yabu Pushelberg has completed a decadent hotel in New York's Times Square featuring lush green walls and a moody dining room with electric blue banquettes. More about Yabu Pushelberg designs The Times Square Edition as "ultimate counterpoint to its surroundings"
Thatched bamboo roofs shelter a beach hut resort built by Vo Trong Nghia Architects on a small island off the Cat Ba Archipelago on Vietnam's northern coast. More about Vo Trong Nghia Architects builds Castaway Island Resort from bamboo
Amsterdam-based clothing brand Senscommon has collaborated with textiles company Uchino Japan to launch a clothing collection made using activated charcoal. More about Senscommon and Uchino Japan launch "self-purifying" charcoal clothing
This week on Dezeen, Clerkenwell Design Week took place in London and the 58th Venice Art Biennale opened its doors to a host of exhibitions, pavilions and installations. More about This week, Clerkenwell Design Week and Venice Art Biennale took place
Architects and designers have come up with inventive ways to create privacy in open-plan offices. From plants to tunnels, here are the floor plans of 10 workplaces that are divided in unusual ways. More about Ten offices with floor plans divided in interesting ways
There are just five days to go until Dezeen Awards 2019 entries close, so here are five reasons to enter our award-winning awards programme. More about You still have five days left to enter Dezeen Awards 2019
Shelves stagger along the walls of this Williamsburg apartment, which local architecture firm Buro Koray Duman designed for a Brooklyn couple with thousands of books. More about Angled bookshelves define Publisher's Loft by Buro Koray Duman in Brooklyn
Architecture firm MAD has proposed building a snowflake-shaped third terminal at Harbin Airport, China, which would feature indoor gardens for travellers. More about MAD reveals "snowflake" design for China's Harbin Airport Terminal Three
A United Nations report has found that Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, and other female-voiced digital assistants "reinforce commonly held gender biases". More about United Nations criticises voice assistants for promoting gender biases
Interlocking volumes clad in zinc, cedar, stucco and glass form this family dwelling in northern California by US studio Aidlin Darling Design. More about Tree House by Aidlin Darling engages with wooded site in Silicon Valley
Architects Bjarke Ingels and Simon Frommenwiler have teamed up to create a brightly hued house that can be taken apart and rebuilt, for 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen. More about Bjarke Ingels and Simon Frommenwiler build jigsaw-puzzle house in Copenhagen
Fungus, yeast-based bioplastic and other materials grown by microbes have been used to make the Korvaa headphones, designed by Finnish studio Aivan in collaboration with scientists. More about Aivan grows headphones from fungus and yeast
The Dalí Museum in St Petersburg, Florida has used a controversial artificial intelligence technique to "bring the master of surrealism back to life". More about Museum creates deepfake Salvador Dalí to greet visitors