Browse the best cafes from the pages of Dezeen in our latest board on Pinterest. We’ve now got over 11,000 followers on Pinterest and you can follow us here.
Follow Dezeen on Pinterest »
See more stories featuring courtyards on Dezeen »
This week five years ago Dezeen was at the opening of the Royal College of Art's 2007 summer show, where graduate designers were exhibiting jewellery made from sugar crystals and pencils, a chandelier-making machine and digitally recreated snowflakes. More about Five years ago...
A cafe, playroom and gallery are tucked beneath the artificial topography of this undulating public square in Mexico by architect Enrique Norten of TEN Arquitectos. More about Emblematic Monument by Enrique Norten and TEN Arquitectos
Swedish designers Folkform have used 80-year-old samples of hardboard in these cabinets for Swedish interiors brand Svenskt Tenn. More about Masonite: Memoriam by Folkform for Svenskt Tenn
Dezeen archive: this week's stories about hairstyles inspired by architectural forms (top right) and seats filled with hair swept from a salon floor have prompted this archive all about hair. See all the stories » More about Dezeen archive: hair
French architects Dumazer & Lafallisse have converted a former gallery in Paris into an optician's. More about La Galerie de Lunettes by Dumazer & Lafallisse Architectes
One year ago a lot of architecture and design seemed to be centred around love and sex, as we featured a coin-operated wedding machine, a mask for clamping mouths together and a couple of architectural installations that resembled parts of the female anatomy. More about One year ago...
Portuguese architects and hairdressers have collaborated on these coiffures inspired by architectural structures. More about Hairchitecture by FAHR 021.3 and Gijo
There's been a bit of a re-use theme on Dezeen this week with seats made of hair, bowls made of money and buildings made of skips. More about This week on Dezeen
Movie: Thomas Heatherwick talks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about his top-secret design for the cauldron that will hold the London 2012 Olympic flame in this interview filmed at his ongoing exhibition at the V&A museum in London. Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More about Movie: Thomas Heatherwick on his design for the Olympic cauldron
London-based architects Serie and Singapore architects Multiply have designed an extension to a law court in Singapore with terracotta-clad courtrooms stacked up inside a giant cage. More about Singapore Subordinate Courts by Serie Architects and Multiply Architects
Next up in our coverage of London 2012 Olympic design is a 135-metre skyscraper by architects SOM full of apartments overlooking the Olympic park. More about Manhattan Loft Gardens by SOM
London designer Ron Arad has created a range of sunglasses and spectacle frames that can be adjusted to fit any face by sliding the lenses along an A-shaped wire over the nose. More about A-Frame by Ron Arad for pq
This family house by architect Naoko Horibe features a traditional Japanese-style room with tatami mats inside a protruding, timber-clad mezzanine. More about House in Kyobate by Naoko Horibe
Skyscrapers in Seoul: New Yorkers Asymptote Architecture are the latest firm to reveal designs for the Yongsan International Business District of Seoul and have proposed two skyscrapers connected by a bridge 125 metres up. More about Velo Towers by Asymptote
The latest issue of our weekly Dezeen Mail newsletter includes a building covered in suckers, water bottles implanted in the body and headgear based on animal horns (above).
There’re also new jobs, competitions, interviews and music.
Read Dezeen Mail issue 105 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail
More about Dezeen Mail #105
Movie: Thomas Heatherwick talks to Dezeen about his design for a riverboat in France in this interview filmed by Dezeen at Heatherwick's ongoing exhibition at the V&A museum in London. More about Movie: Thomas Heatherwick on designing a boat for the Loire
Hackney designers PearsonLloyd preview their workstations for office furniture brand Bene at Hackney House in Shoreditch tonight, with music by Dezeen Music Project. More about Docklands by PearsonLloyd for Bene
Clumps of human hair are recycled as stuffing for two plastic pouffes by Swedish furniture and product designer Ola Giertz. More about The Bare Hair Project by Ola Giertz
This house in Argentina by local architects Arquinoma has a front door tall enough to let in a giraffe. More about Casa Besares by Arquinoma