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Canal boat interiors inspire space-efficient extension to London house by Archmongers

Matchbox house, Stoke Newington by Archmonger

Archmongers has extended the rear of a terraced house in Stoke Newington that features interiors lined with built-in plywood furniture to maximise the available space and a staircase made from a jigsaw of pieces. More ›

 
 

Take a peek behind the scenes via our new factories Pinterest board

Our new Pinterest board features a mixture of eye-catching factories and conversion projects, including Alastair Philip Wiper's photographs of the Adidas factory in Indonesia and a Beijing industrial building converted into an artist's home and studio. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›

 
 

Seo-Yeon Park bases porcelain tableware on Georgia O'Keeffe paintings

Seo-Yeon Park makes porcelain tableware based on Georgia O'Keeffe paintings

Ceramic artist Seo-Yeon Park based this collection of slip-cast porcelain tableware on the colours and forms seen in abstract paintings by American artist Georgia O'Keeffe. More ›

 
 

This week, Renzo Piano's Toronto courthouse and SOM's Park Avenue skyscraper hit headlines

Renzo Piano's new courthouse for Toronto

This week on Dezeen, Italian architect Renzo Piano released plans for his first Canadian project and SOM's modernist Park Avenue skyscraper in New York became the largest building ever put up for deliberate demolition. More ›

 
 

Geometric bas-relief patterns decorate monolithic Egyptian Embassy in Lisbon

Egypt Embassy in Lisbon by Promontorio Architects

Portuguese studio Promontorio Architects has completed the new Embassy of Egypt in Lisbon, which features robust concrete walls covered with bas-relief patterns that recall traditional Egyptian motifs. More ›

 
 

Pale cedar beach house by Raad Studio perches atop a sand dune

Beach House by Raad Studio

New York firm Raad Studio has situated this beach house clad in light-coloured timber high above the sea level in New Jersey. More ›

 
 

Nendo designs cheesecake in the style of a snowy Japanese landscape

Nendo has designed a group of mini cheesecakes to look like trees within a snowy landscape for the Japanese confectionary company Flanders. More ›

 
 

Waterfalls, forests and kayaks among proposals for Park Avenue centreline

Park Avenue Centerline Competition

Architects and designers have imagined ways to transform the central reservation along New York's Park Avenue for an ideas competition, including an underground rock-climbing wall, a huge cascading waterfall and a route for kayaking commuters. More ›

 
 

Lacoste replaces crocodile logo with endangered species for limited-edition polos

Lacoste's crocodile logo is replaced by endangered species for limited edition polo shirts

Lacoste has swapped its distinctive crocodile logo for one of 10 threatened animal species on a series of limited-edition polo shirts, designed to bring attention to the global state of biodiversity. More ›

 
 

Oscars 2018 Best Picture nominees illustrated as minimal posters

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri minimal move poster

Netherlands-based designer Chungkong has created graphics to represent some of the movies up for the biggest accolade at this weekend's Academy Awards ceremony. More ›