News: Herzog & de Meuron's proposal for the first new skyscraper in Paris for over 40 years has been rejected by councillors in a controversial decision that has been declared invalid by the city's Socialist Party mayor.
More about Herzog & de Meuron's triangular tower rejected by Paris councillors
Wooden walls concertina across open-plan living areas to subdivide this renovated stone house and extension by Spanish office XLMS (+ slideshow). More about XLMS extends 19th-century stone house in Mallorca to create a holiday home
White metal panels imprinted with a geometric pattern line the walls of this penthouse apartment in Tel Aviv by Israeli studio Pitsou Kedem Architects (+ slideshow). More about Geometric panels create textured walls inside monochrome penthouse by Pitsou Kedem
Istanbul Design Biennial 2014: Chicago studio Koz Susani Design has designed five conceptual appliances that would turn flavoured pills into ready-to-eat meals by simply adding water. More about Koz Susani Design imagines food of the future
The zigzagging roof of this family residence in South Korea prompted architecture studio Apparat-C to name it Twin Peaks House (+ slideshow). More about Twin Peaks House by Apparat-C has a zigzagging roof profile
Design student Ken Nakagaki has adapted a traditional stationery implement to work with Computer Aided Design (CAD) software, creating a tool that enables users to replicate digital files on paper (+ movie). More about Ken Nakagaki's Comppass draws simple shapes from digital files
Inside Festival 2014: architect Mariana Simas explains how Studio MK27 transformed a former São Paulo cinema into a bookshop that won the Retail category at this year's Inside Festival (+ movie). More about São Paulo bookstore walls are "clad with books" from floor to ceiling
Today is Dezeen's eighth birthday! From chocolate penises to houses with slides instead of stairs, we've pretty much written about everything architecture and design related over the years. To celebrate, we're looking back at the most popular story from each year of our existence. More about Dezeen turns eight: happy birthday to us!
News: first it was a garden bridge to span London's River Thames, now British designer Thomas Heatherwick is proposing a floating island park for the Hudson River in New York (+ slideshow). More about Thomas Heatherwick to build 0 million "treasure island" on New York's Hudson River
News: Melbourne surfers could ride 1.5-metre-high waves within a heated salt-water pool in plans set out by local firm Damian Rogers Architecture for the city's docklands. More about Melbourne floats proposal for artificial surf park
News: Dutch studios Powerhouse Company and De Zwarte Hond have won a competition to redesign the railway station in Assen, north-east Netherlands, with plans for a structure with a triangular latticed roof. More about Assen Station redesign by Powerhouse Company and De Zwarte Hond to feature triangular roof
French designer Inga Sempé created this pinboard for Danish brand Hay from metal mesh so users can add extra storage components and accessories to make it more useful (+ slideshow). More about Inga Sempé's modular pinboard for Hay tidies away small items
Gaps in the upside-down barrel-vaulted ceiling of this Japanese church by Takeshi Hosaka funnel slices of light into the concrete-lined hall (+ slideshow). More about Six inverted arches outline the roof of Shonan Christ Church by Takeshi Hosaka
An arched framework of curving pine ribs gives this chapel in Finland by Sanaksenaho Architects a shape more akin to a boat than a building (+ slideshow). More about Copper-clad chapel in Finland has a curving wooden frame like a ship's hull
Danish brand Howe is relaunching a chair designed by Modernist architect Arne Jacobsen for his 1950s Munkegaard School. More about Arne Jacobsen's Munkegaard chair reintroduced by Howe
This muddy-toned timber house by Graz-based Hammerschmid Pachl Seebacher Architekten is raised on stilts above a sloping site so that it overlooks a swimming pond (+ slideshow). More about Black house by Hammerschmid Pachl Seebacher is raised above a bathing lake
Engineering student Alejandro Plasencia has created biodegradable fishing nets and tracking tags for fishermen to help stop aquatic mammals getting trapped in lost trawling equipment (+ movie). More about Biodegradable fishing nets could prevent sea mammal deaths
French fashion house Dior's flagship store in Tokyo by Japanese studio SANAA has had its interior overhauled by American architect Peter Marino (+ slideshow). More about SANAA's Dior Omotesando store receives Peter Marino refit
Wooden panels and doors slide across the geometric floor tiles that Nook Architects uncovered during the remodelling of this narrow Barcelona apartment (+ slideshow). More about Sliding wooden partitions divide Nook Architects' latest Barcelona apartment
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam is hosting an exhibition of work completed by Studio Wieki Somers over the past decade, including a collection of lamps based on sixteenth century Japanese Samurai flags (+ slideshow). More about Studio Wieki Somers presents retrospective exhibition at Rotterdam museum