Dezeen and MINI World Tour: Amsterdam designer Pieke Bergmans explains that she used a process similar to glass blowing to create the plastic lighting she exhibited during Dutch Design Week 2013 in Eindhoven. More about Pieke Bergmans' blown-plastic VAPOR lighting "grows like a plant or animal"
Berlin collective The T-Shirt Issue has sliced up jersey fabric to create four faceted garments that capture stages of a sweatshirt melting into the ground (+ slideshow). More about Sweatshirt by The T-Shirt Issue appears to melt
News: London firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has unveiled designs for a major new football stadium in Caracas, Venezuela. More about Football stadium by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners planned for Venezuela
Interview: over dinner in an apartment inside a historic clock tower, Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky told Dezeen how two young design graduates built the home-stay booking website that is now bigger than most hotel chains. More about Silicon Valley "didn't think a designer could build a company" says Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky
News: spectacle-wearing tech fans will soon be able to use Google Glass for the first time after the tech giant today unveiled four designs for frames to hold prescription lenses (+ slideshow). More about Google unveils collection of Google Glass spectacles and sunglasses
This house in Montreal by Canadian studio naturehumaine has a facade of dark brickwork, while its rear elevation is clad with steel panels that are divided into separate black and white sections (+ slideshow). More about Montreal house by naturehumaine features a brick front and a monochrome back
Maison&Objet 2014: each item in this six-piece stationery set by London designer Samuel Wilkinson has a soft faceted body (+ slideshow). More about Samuel Wilkinson designs faceted stationery for Lexon
Sweeping lengths of concrete create curving canopies around the perimeter of this golf clubhouse on South Korea's Changseon Island by Seoul architecture firm Mass Studies (+ slideshow). More about Southcape golf clubhouse by Mass Studies features curving concrete canopies
Maison&Object 2014: French design duo Colonel has launched its third furniture collection, featuring items based on camping equipment (+ slideshow). More about Colonel launches collection based on nomadic furniture at Maison&Objet
News: architecture firm BIG has unveiled a proposal for an apartment block in the Bahamas featuring a honeycomb facade where every balcony contains a swimming pool (+ slideshow). More about BIG designs honeycomb housing block for the Bahamas
A wooden ladder and a pair of winding steel staircases link the rooms of this lofty house in Sapporo, Japan, by Jun Igarashi Architects (+ slideshow). More about Jun Igarashi's Case house comes with two twisting staircases
News: Piero Ambrogio Busnelli, founder of Italian furniture brand B&B Italia, has died aged 87. More about B&B Italia founder Piero Ambrogio Busnelli dies aged 87
Maison&Objet 2014: British designer Sebastian Bergne has created a letter stand from a folded sheet of metal to keep post and stationery tidied away. More about Sebastian Bergne folds metal sheet into a letter holder
Interview: Iwan Baan is the rock star of architecture photography, shooting buildings from helicopters and "living in a hotel 365 days a year". With a new exhibition documenting his hectic schedule now open in Germany, Baan spoke to Dezeen about his unique lifestyle and technique (+ slideshow). More about "I haven't had a home for three years" says Iwan Baan
Glass floors allow residents to look down from a dining table into a toilet inside this windowless concrete house in Shanghai by Chinese firm Atelier FCJZ (+ slideshow). More about Vertical Glass House by Atelier FCJZ has glass floors instead of windows
Cologne 2014: this daybed by young designer Stefanie Schissler is intentionally lumpy to encourage users to snuggle into it. More about Kulle daybed by Stefanie Schissler features a bobbly surface
Dutch studio Bureau SLA has inserted a smooth white house-shaped art gallery into a timber nineteenth-century Dutch military building. More about Bureau SLA inserts bright white gallery into old timber armoury
Dezeen Music Project: surreal animated creatures made out of plasticine inhabit this music video by Rafael Bonilla for upcoming British band Glass Animals. More about Stop-motion music video by Rafael Bonilla for Glass Animals' single Exxus
Architects Mette and Martin Wienberg have overhauled a 1940s cottage in Denmark to create a modern home for their family, complete with timber-lined walls and cosy furnishings. More about Family house by Wienberg Architects and Friis & Moltke contains cosy oak-lined rooms
We published a house with a huge pivoting rusted-steel door last week, so our new Pinterest board brings together a selection of interesting doors and entrances from the pages of Dezeen. See our new Pinterest board »
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