The newest Dezeen Pinterest board is filled with eye-catching playgrounds from around the world, including Jaime Hayón's huge animal-shaped play equipment, Assemble's brutalist playground and architectural play equipment that encourages kids to crawl, jump and fly. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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An off-centre pitched roof tops this house in Los Angeles' Venice Beach, which was designed by local studio Electric Bowery to include outdoor kitchen, living and dining areas. More about Venice Beach house by Electric Bowery features askew pitched roof and outdoor lounge
Architecture firm Snøhetta has used microscopic studies of Copenhagen's foods and beer to develop the colour and material palette of this restaurant, which has taken over the space previously occupied by famed eatery Noma in the Danish capital. More about Snøhetta overhauls former Noma space for new casual Copenhagen restaurant
The homogenous red-brick facades and decorative tiled relief of this house tacked onto the end of a south-London terrace by 31/44 Architects reference details found on its older neighbours. More about 31/44 Architects adds contemporary red-brick house to traditional London terrace
Designer Moisés Hernández has created a set of simple, monochrome tableware for the most highly rated restaurant in Mexico. More about Moisés Hernández designs monochrome tableware for Mexico's best restaurant Pujol
An angled tower wrapped in red concrete panels and glazing contains the entrance to this second world war museum, which is mostly housed beneath the surface of a public plaza in the Polish city of Gdansk. More about Tilted red tower marks entrance to Polish war museum by Kwadrat
This week on Dezeen, BIG completed a second world war museum next to a German-built bunker in Denmark and a replica of the Parthenon was constructed on a Nazi book-burning site using 100,000 forbidden titles. More about This week, BIG completed a war museum beside a Nazi bunker
Brussels-based designer Alain Gilles took cues from Nordic design to create this minimal foosball table, designed to look good in any room. More about Alain Gilles designs foosball table that "doesn’t have to be hidden in the basement"
This cedar-clad villa in the Hamptons designed by New York City architects Leroy Street Studio is raised on timber pilotis to anticipate flooding. More about Leroy Street Studio lifts Hamptons house above the water on stilts
Japanese retailer Muji is set to open hotels in Shenzhen, China and Tokyo, Japan, which will be styled with the minimalist brand's furnishings and products. More about Muji to open hotels in China and Japan
New York architect David Rockwell's models of his flamboyant set designs for Broadway shows and movies, from Hairspray to Team America, are documented in these photographs. More about David Rockwell shares photographs of detailed theatre set models
Kvadrat Soft Cells design director Jesper Nielsen explains the advantages of the three-dimensional textile panel system his team is developing in this movie Dezeen filmed for Kvadrat in Copenhagen. More about Textiles are a "simple, smart material" says Kvadrat Soft Cells design director
The social history of plywood – as an innovator in the furniture and transport industries, and a maligned everyday material – is explored in a new exhibition at London's V&A museum, which opens this weekend. More about V&A exhibition charts the rise and fall of humble plywood
Rotterdam studio MVRDV has unveiled plans for a residential tower complex in Eindhoven, featuring spiky plant-covered roofs and greenhouses. More about MVRDV unveils plans for Eindhoven housing with jagged grass-covered roofs
Work on a giant observation wheel planned for New York's Staten Island has ground to a halt, after a legal battle resulted in the firing of its contractor. More about New York Wheel in jeopardy as construction halts indefinitely
We've selected 10 popular projects from Dezeen's Pinterest boards that show how lightwells can be used to channel daylight down into parts of the home where windows are limited. More about 10 homes that make clever use of lightwells to bring daylight in
Architecture firm Caruso St John has transformed a Copenhagen warehouse into a wood-panelled studio, where the Kvadrat design team can develop their range of acoustic panelling. More about Caruso St John uses spruce lumber boards to create design studio for Kvadrat Soft Cells
Danish firm BIG has built an "invisible museum" in Blåvand, Denmark, by cutting linear passageways out of the sand dune beside a bunker built by German forces during the second world war. More about BIG creates subterranean museum by carving channels into dune by Nazi bunker
Cladding panels removed from high-rise buildings are repurposed to build temporary homes for Romanian migrant workers in this proposal by architecture studio Reed Watts, which has just been named winner of a charity-organised design competition. More about Salvaged tower-block cladding could be used to build migrant housing
The rainy climate in Bergen, Norway, was the basis for the blue-tinted interiors of the Zander K hotel designed by Stockholm studio Claesson Koivisto Rune. More about Claesson Koivisto Rune designs rain-themed interiors for Bergen's Zander K hotel