Dezeen’s A-Zdvent calendar: Miss Blanche Chair by Shiro Kuramata
Courtyard becomes rotunda inside Toronto university building by Moriyama & Teshima
New York’s Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum reopens
“Koolhaas may think we’re past the time of manifestos, but that’s no reason to play dumb”
London designers create tiny dream rooms for Museum of Childhood exhibition
Job of the week: interior designer at Joyce Wang Studio
“I try to make new forms of life,” says Strandbeests creator Theo Jansen
Jägnefält Milton’s Forest Pavilion tests new Swedish building law
Alan Faena is working “with the best minds” in architecture to bring Argentina to Miami Beach
Daan Roosegaarde lights up Amsterdam station with rainbow projection
Competition: five Edwards Moore books to be won
High-altitude viewpoint perches over a volcanic crater lake
This week on Dezeen
Solar-powered cars could become standard “within 30 years”
Competition: five Roll-Up Bins by Michel Charlot and L&Z to be won
MenoMenoPiu Architects proposes capsule hotel along the Seine
Theo Jansen creates giant wind-powered Strandbeest sculptures
Campana brothers bring “nature indoors” with bristly installation
Dezeen’s A-Zdvent calendar: Lockheed Lounge by Marc Newson
Peter Pichler’s mirror-clad guesthouses are designed to be visible to birds
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MAD wins approval for first European project after four years of negotiations
Patrick Parrish Gallery presents gridded furniture and matching clothing at Design Miami 2014