Copyright protection lasts too long and should be shortened, according to musician David Byrne, speaking at a design festival at the new A/D/O space in New York this weekend. More about Copyright has "gone too far" and ideas should belong to everyone, says David Byrne
Selencky Parsons has designed its own London studio, using a cork pod with pegboard walls for storing stationery, displaying models and hanging plants. More about Selencky Parsons adds cork-lined pod with pegboard walls to its own office
Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a UK-based product developer for Michael Anastassiades, whose designs include illuminated globes balanced on delicate metal supports (pictured). More ›
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British studio Weston Williamson has revealed a housing concept that aims to resolve the lack of affordable housing in Palestine by allowing residents to expand as their finances grow. More about Weston Williamson proposes incremental building to combat Palestinian housing shortage
Basque studio Iratzoki Lizaso has designed modular tables with leather details that hark back to traditional office furnishings. More about Iratzoki Lizaso brings "warmth and richness" to the office with Heldu tables
A broad roof terrace with sunken seating areas disguises this holiday home by BCHO Architects, which nestles into the mountainous terrain of its plot in South Korea's Gyeonggi Province. More about BCHO Architects embeds house with roof terrace into South Korean mountainside
Three salt silos rise above the four long concrete volumes that make up this motorway service centre designed by Marte.Marte Architects for Salzburg, Austria. More about Concrete colonnade fronts motorway maintenance centre in Salzburg by Marte.Marte Architects
Blue-tinted light floods exhibition spaces inside the Stirling Prize-winning gallery Caruso St John designed for artist Damien Hirst in London, in these shots captured by photographer Simone Bossi. More about Caruso St John's Newport Street Gallery is bathed in blue light in Simone Bossi's photography
German designer Bernhard Osann curved a rod to make this simple light, which leans against a wall and can be rotated to create different effects. More about Rod bent in two places constitutes ultra-minimalist Neo light
Australian designer Matt Woods has given Chinese cafe chain The Dessert Kitchen a minimal and nature-led interior for its first outpost in Sydney. More about White brick and reclaimed eucalyptus wood fill Sydney Dessert Kitchen
A glazed corridor flanked by sunken courtyards connects two pristine concrete volumes containing the living and sleeping areas of this house in the Israeli district of Rishpon. More about Concrete and glass surfaces extend from inside to outside at Israeli house by Studio de Lange
British artist Hugh Miller based this collection of chairs, stools and a table on a Japanese coffee-making ritual he observed while travelling. More about Hugh Miller creates ceremonial furniture for coffee-drinking ritual
It's Chinese New Year! To celebrate, we've pinned dozens of buildings in China to a new Pinterest board – from MAD's horseshoe-shaped hotel on the edge of a lake to a contemporary renovation of a historic hutong in Beijing. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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An office with a timber-lined courtyard and another with bold red trusses are among the projects to feature in an exhibition of contemporary South Korean architecture in Rome. More about South Korea's "first generation" of fully autonomous architects profiled in Rome exhibition
Handmade clay tiles cover this gabled accommodation block, which London firm Walters & Cohen has added to a boarding school in the English city of Canterbury. More about Walters & Cohen covers housing for English boarding house in rusty-red tiles
Sebastian Herkner's Caribe furniture range is produced by craftsmen in Santa Marta, Colombia, using a traditional technique many learn at school. More about Sebastian Herkner uses traditional Colombian weaving technique for Caribe furniture
Visitors to the Koti hotel in Paris will be immersed in a Finnish experience, sleeping in wooden cabins and sharing meals around a communal table. More about Koti hotel brings Finnish holiday experience to Paris
Cadaval & Sola-Morales has used stone walls, a swooping concrete roof and large expanses of glazing to frame mountain views from this weekend retreat outside Mexcio City. More about Stone and concrete retreat stands at the foot of Mexican mountain range
This week on Dezeen, IKEA's flat-pack refugee shelter won Design of the Year 2016 and the shortlist for a new UK holocaust memorial was revealed. More about This week, IKEA won design of the year and the UK holocaust memorial shortlist was revealed
San Francisco-based Klopf Architecture has remodelled a house built by Joseph Eichler, the post-war real estate developer who helped introduce modern housing estates to America. More about Klopf Architecture revamps mid-century modern Eichler home in California