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Jony Ive's studio LoveFrom has collaborated with Japanese manufacturer Balmuda to create a nautical lantern, driven by the designer's own struggles to find a portable LED light for his yacht. Read more

Architect Norman Foster has designed a briefcase, while designer Es Devlin created a concrete lamp for a collection to mark the 50th anniversary of Spanish fashion brand Zara. Read more

Milanese design studio 6AM has created candy-like Murano glass cubes "reminiscent of stone architecture" for the debut collection of Bottega Veneta creative director Louise Trotter. Read more

A mass-timber structure designed by a pair of architects as their holiday home and a house that was renovated by a studio principal for her mother feature in our houses of the month list for September. Read more

Japanese studio Schemata Architects has converted an old factory on the island of Teshima into a cafe, swapping its metal walls with polycarbonate that allows light into the building. Read more

MAD founder Ma Yansong discusses a range of projects featured in a solo exhibition at Rotterdam's Nieuwe Instituut with curator Aric Chen in this recorded conversation produced by Dezeen. Read more

Earthy tones and tactile materials characterise Toybox, a 160-year-old Portuguese-style home in Goa, restored by Indian practice Grounded. Read more

Architecture studio BIG has completed a building at Claremont McKenna College in Los Angeles made of "a series of parallel building volumes side by side" that surrounds a central atrium. Read more

Central Saint Martins is developing emotional and conceptual tools to navigate how students ethically approach artificial intelligence, says Alex Warnock-Smith, programme director of its Spatial Practices programme. Read more

International studio MASS Design Group renovated and adapted six derelict factory buildings into a mixed-use community hub in New York's Hudson Valley. Read more

Dezeen School Shows: a proposal for modern housing in East Berlin informed by housing strategies in Barcelona, is among the projects from Washington University in St Louis. Read more

A pastel colour palette, metal canopies and furniture informed by children's block games lend a playful feel to Gyöngyszem Kindergarten in Budapest, Hungary, renovated by local studio Archikon. Read more

British architect Thomas Heatherwick has unveiled the 90-metre-long, four-storey-high Humanise Wall as the centrepiece of the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. Read more

Designer Marc Newson has made his first foray into runway sets, combining blocks of 101 different colours into an undulating terrain to host Fendi's Spring Summer 2026 presentation at Milan Fashion Week. Read more

Breaking news: architect Terry Farrell, best-known for the postmodern MI6 and TV-am buildings, along with his high-tech collaborations with the late Nicholas Grimshaw, has passed away at the age of 87. Read more

Open Architecture has risen quickly to become one of China's most influential studios and is now set to curate a major exhibition in Sydney. In this interview, married founders Huang Wenjing and Li Hu explain their unusual approach. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: this cocooning lounge chair was created by British industrial designer Benjamin Hubert and his studio Layer for Spanish furniture brand Andreu World. Read more

A medical device to support a newborn's body during resuscitation and a pregnancy test feature in this roundup of the curators' favourite pieces from the Designing Motherhood exhibition. Read more

Dezeen has announced the shortlisted projects for this year's Dezeen Awards China, which include a seaside pavilion on the remote island of Chaishan and a cultural centre sheltered by sloping roofs in Guangzhou. Read more

Students from London's Architectural Association have developed a low-cost and easily repeatable way to build with tree forks – a type of timber that is usually discarded as waste even though it is unusually strong. Read more