News: the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced 28 winners of this year's Institute Honor Awards, including projects by OMA, BIG and Kohn Pedersen Fox. More about 2013 AIA Institute Honor Awards winners announced
Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of the inaugral issue of Material Futures, a new publication about textile research. More about Competition: five copies of Material Futures to be won
This X-shaped house by architects Cadaval & Sola-Morales hangs over the edge of a hillside on the outskirts of Barcelona (+ slideshow). More about X House by Cadaval & Solà-Morales
Swedish firm Note Design Studio devised a set of mobile metal trolleys to display shoes at this store for footwear brand Camper. More about Camper Store Malmö - The Shoe Testing Facility by Note Design Studio
New York firm Steven Holl Architects has completed the Sliced Porosity Block, a cluster of five towers around a public plaza in Chengdu, China (+ slideshow + photographs by Hufton + Crow). More about Sliced Porosity Block by Steven Holl Architects
Designer Roger Arquer explains why emotion is the guiding force behind his practice, which includes lampshades that work with condensation and experimental fish tanks, in this next movie filmed at our Designed in Hackney Day. More about "In the future, design thinking is going to be called emotionalism" – Roger Arquer
News: American college student Tyler McNaney has invented a desktop machine that makes the raw materials for 3D printing by grinding up waste plastic from bottles, wrappers and even Lego bricks. More about Desktop recycling plant makes plastic for 3D printing
X marks the spot where a surprise gift has been hidden on these urban treasure maps printed onto silk scarves by Dutch studio Kind of Moving. More about Kind of Scarves by Kind of Moving
Cologne 2013: German furniture brand e15 has launched re-editions of a chair, sofa, daybed and stackable side table designed by German modernist Ferdinand Kramer in the first half of the twentieth century (+ slideshow). More about Ferdinand Kramer collection by e15
News: the Design Museum in London has announced the projects nominated for the Designs of the Year 2013, including the Olympic Cauldron by Thomas Heatherwick, The Shard by Renzo Piano (above) and the Little Printer by BERG. More about Designs of the Year 2013 shortlist announced
Maison&Objet 2013: Spanish designer Héctor Serrano will launch a portable speaker designed to look like the sound icon from a computer at Maison&Objet in Paris this week. More about Iconico by Héctor Serrano for Lexon
London designer Ab Rogers believes this student housing project he recently completed in London could set a blueprint for compact modern living in the city (+ slideshow). More about Scape student housing by Ab Rogers Design
Cologne 2013: French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have come up with a DIY kit for making curtains using a hanging cord that winds up like a guitar string. More about Ready Made Curtain by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
Bright red columns interrupt a monochrome interior inside this fashion boutique in a Montreal warehouse by Canadian firm Saucier + Perrotte Architectes (+ slideshow). More about Cahier d'Exercices boutique by Saucier + Perrotte Architectes
Cologne 2013: despite its name, this chair by Dutch designer Reinier de Jong is made from old wooden broom handles. More about STEEL chair by Reinier de Jong
Dutch studio Shift has converted a suburban house in the south of the Netherlands and turned it into a dental surgery with a new zinc-clad wing (+ slideshow). More about Dentist with a View by Shift
Product news: Dutch brand Usuals has crafted a set of handmade wooden toys out of branches from a hazel tree that grows on the family farm of one of the designers (+ slideshow). More about Happy Toys by Usuals
Icelandic artist and director Harald Haraldsson turned a wall of bookshelves into a fractured and futuristic backdrop for this music video (+ movie). More about Love With You music video by Harald Haraldsson
Dezeen archive: we've noticed a lot of black cropping up in architecture and design lately, so we've created an archive of all the black houses on Dezeen. See all our stories about black houses »
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Japanese studio MDS has completed a countryside retreat with south-facing rooms in the foothills of the Yatsugatake mountains (+ slideshow). More about Yatsugatake Villa by MDS