Fosters' Dubai Apple Store | Comme des Garçons at The Met | Designer pollution masks

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Box-framed louvres shade board-marked concrete house in Tel Aviv

House in Tel Aviv by Bar Orian

This concrete house  in Tel Aviv by Bar Orian Architects features vertical louvres that can be either rotated to filter light or slid open to reveal the windows behind. More ›

 
 

Foster + Partners completes Dubai Apple Store with carbon-fibre "solar wings"

Apple Dubai Mall by Foster + Partners

Filigreed carbon-fibre shutters fold around the oriel window of Foster + Partners' Apple Store in Dubai, shading the shop floor during the day but opening at night to views of the Burj Khalifa. More ›

 
 

Beirut Design Week returns to show the world Lebanon "is not just about political instability"

Beirut Design Week

Dezeen promotion:  the challenges of regional political instability have fuelled the creativity of designers in Lebanon, says the director of Beirut Design Week, which takes place in the city this month. More ›

 
 

Steimle Architekten completes "crystal-like" concrete house in Germany

Angular, board-marked concrete walls offer a variety of views from the pared-back spaces inside this house  designed by Steimle Architekten in Tübingen, Germany. More ›

 
 

Marcel Wanders designs air pollution masks with graphic prints for O2Today

Marcel Wanders designs patterned pollution masks for O2TODAY

Marcel Wanders has partnered with San Francisco company O2Today to release a set of air pollution masks  made from patterned wool. More ›

 
 

Job of the day: senior designer at David Gill Galleries

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a senior designer at David Gill Galleries in London, which recently exhibited lesser-known works by late architect Zaha HadidMore ›

 
 

Gable wall conceals double-height atrium in Austin home by Design Hound

Laurelwood House by Design Hound

Austin studio Design Hound has completed a local home with light-toned facades, designed to help to create a "soft transition" into the residence's bright interior. More ›

 
 

Weathering steel clads "pop temple" in Leiden by Ector Hoogstad Architecten

Gebr. de Nobel by Ector Hoogstad Architecten

A+Awards: this concert venue in the Dutch city of Leiden is clad with panels of weathering steel and was awarded a 2016 Architizer A+Award. More ›

 
 

Comme des Garçons fashion exhibition opens at The Met in New York

Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between

The sculptural clothes of enigmatic Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo are the subject of this year's spring exhibition organised by the Costume Institute at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. More ›

 
 

Skyscraper competition proposal involves erecting towers within world's largest trees

Tribute: The Monument of Giant by Ko Jinhyeuk, Cheong Changwon, Cho Kyuhung and Choi Sunwoong

A conceptual scheme by a team of South Korean designers calls for inserting towers within the hollowed-out trunks of giant sequoias in the western US. More ›

 
 

Ferrari design team creates Cockpit office chair for Poltrona Frau

Ferrari's design team has created an office chair for Italian brand Poltrona Frau that resembles the driver's seat of a sports car. More ›