10 pixelated buildings | Storage bed for compact living | Human-like robot hand

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Gastrobar O restaurant combines Russian and Scandinavian style

St Petersburg restaurant Gastrobar O pays tribute to Scandinavian style

Bureau Rhizome's interior for this contemporary Russian restaurant is influenced by a neighbouring Danish design school. More ›

 
 

OpenAI creates Dactyl robot hand with "unprecedented" dexterity

OpenAI Dactyl robot hand

Open AI — a non-profit started by Elon Musk — has found a way to programme a robot hand so that it can nimbly manipulate an object using human-like movements it has taught itself. More ›

 
 

Yesul Jang designs storage bed for compact living

Yesul Jang designs Tiny Home Bed for compact living

ÉCAL graduate Yesul Jang has designed a bed with storage capacity for millennials with limited space in urban dwellings. More ›

 
 

Complete our audience survey for a chance to win Urbanears speakers

Urbanears speakers

Tell us what you think about Dezeen! Take part in our audience survey and you could win one of three Urbanears speakers. More ›

 
 

Taeheon Kim's modular makeup brush is designed for men

Taecheon Kim's modular makeup brush is designed for men

The Croono makeup brush by Central Saint Martins graduate Taeheon Kim is an attempt to break down gender barriers by redefining masculinity through objects. More ›

 
 

Henley Halebrown creates concrete-and-brick student halls for garden-like site

London-based Henley Halebrown referenced both Georgian and modernist buildings when creating this Stirling Prize-shortlisted group of brick-clad student halls at the University of Roehampton's parkland campus. More ›

 
 

10 pixelated and Jenga-style buildings that tick all the boxes

MahaNakhon by Buro Ole Scheeren, Bangkok, Thailand

The number of architecture projects comprising series of cubes or cuboids to look like digital pixels, or half-finished games of Jenga, is stacking up fast. Here are 10 examples from studios including Herzog & de Meuron, OMA and MVRDV. More ›

 
 

"Jenga architecture proposes the unstable, the tentative, and that which tends to dissolution"

56 Leonard by Herzog & de Meuron

Aaron Betsky examines the emergence and popularity of Jenga-style towers and pixelated buildings around the world, and hopes that future examples don't tumble into mediocrity. More ›

 
 

Oz Biri's ceramic military vehicles symbolise "fragility of life"

Oz Biri's ceramic military vehicles symbolise the "fragility of life"

Remote-controlled ceramic models of military vehicles by Bezalel Academy graduate Oz Biri aim to open discourse on the "absurdity" of war. More ›

 
 

Weaponised drone reportedly used in failed assassination attempt

Drones reportedly used in assassination attempt

Venezuelan officials have claimed a thwarted assassination attempt was made against President NicolĂ¡s Maduro using explosives strapped to drones. More ›

 
 

Davidson Rafailidis turns 1920s garage in Buffalo into combined home and workshop

Big Space, Little Space by Davidson Rafailidis

US architecture studio Davidson Rafailidis has retained peeling paintwork, uneven concrete flooring and rough wooden beams while converting a garage in Buffalo, New York, into a live-work space. More ›

 
 

Zaha Hadid Architects reveals plans for Malta's tallest building

Mercury Tower by Zaha Hadid Architects

Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed visualisations of a 112 metre-high tower, planned for Paceville on the northern coast of Malta, which would be the country's tallest building. More ›

 
 

Mysterious Aphex Twin logos appear in destinations across the world

Mysterious Aphex Twin logos appear in destinations across the world

Illustrations of electronic musician Aphex Twin's logo have been spotted in locations across the world, to announce his new EP Collapse. More ›

 
 

Facets and curves form exterior of Hollywood Hills House by Tighe Architecture

Hollywood house by Patrick Tighe

American studio Tighe Architecture has created a sculptural residence on a tree-studded hillside in Los Angeles that is wrapped in plaster and large stretches of glass. More ›