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Sim-Plex Design Studio has created an apartment in Hong Kong for a couple that lives with their parrot, an elderly parent and her pet cat. Read more

This "floating" art and literary museum by American studio OLI Architecture is housed in a grouping of textured concrete blocks, which are elevated over a lake in China's Zhejiang Province (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Squishy foam spikes featured on garments and the catwalk at fashion designer Mary Katrantzou's Autumn Winter 2015 show during London Fashion Week. (more…) View the full article

A geometric pattern of square-shaped rooms connected by rhombus-shaped circulation areas forms House in Hokusetsu, Osaka, by Japanese firm Tato Architects. Read more

The Dalí Museum in St Petersburg, Florida has used a controversial artificial intelligence technique to "bring the master of surrealism back to life". Read more

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Not Another Bill to give readers the chance to win one of five three-month subscriptions to its service that delivers limited-edition gifts. (more…) View the full article

Porto studio Fala Atelier has overhauled the layout of a cramped flat in Lisbon, adding sliding doors that connect each room to a central living area and small balcony. (more…) View the full article

Football players disappear beneath a grassy knoll to access hidden changing facilities at a sports ground in northern France by MU Architecture (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Designers and students have paid tribute to Pierre Keller, the graphic artist and former director of Swiss design school Ecal, who died of liver cancer on 7 July. Read more

Dezeen Watch Store: a selection of men's watches from the new military-inspired collection by Nixon are now available at Dezeen Watch Store. (more...) View the full article

Kubo Tsushima Architects gave a curved form to this public toilet in Japanese town of Nakanojo, to avoid creating spaces for dust to collect or spiders to lurk (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Scaffold-like partition walls and timber display units appear inside this pop-up store that Schemata Architects has designed for Danish homeware brand Hay. Read more

These plates made of tightly-packed soil were produced by Japanese design collective Bril (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Screens with a perforated geometric pattern help to control the flow of light, air and views throughout this house in a suburb of Tel Aviv by Israeli architect Pitsou Kedem. Read more View the full article

Galvez Autunno Arquitectos has completed a cluster of residential buildings in the small Argentinian town of Las Heras, each featuring sloped roofs and black metal cladding (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Colourful chocolate bars are displayed in a transparent chest of drawers in this Tokyo shop designed by Japanese studio Nendo for a Belgian chocolatier (+ slideshow). (more…)

Nike has colour-matched Brazil's new World Cup football strip with the kits worn by the team that won the tournament back in 1970. Read more View the full article

News: British architecture studio Caruso St John has won a competition to restore and expand one of Sweden's most significant 20th century buildings – the Stockholm City Library by Swedish architect Erik Gunnar Asplund. (more…) View the full article

Australian animator Felix Colgrave's music video for Fever the Ghost follows a cartoon man and his pet serpent who turn their home planet into a giant disco ball (+ movie). (more…)

This week's Dezeen Mail includes a concept proposing meatballs made out of insects for Ikea, Apple's gadget to increase iPhone 6 battery life and our Christmas gift guide, which features a Lego set created for architects (pictured). Read Dezeen Mail issue 283 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

News: French architect Jean Nouvel has issued a statement saying he will not attend the opening of his Philharmonie de Paris this evening, claiming it is "not finished" and defending his firm against allegations regarding cost overruns. (more…) View the full article

Barcelona designer Martin Azua has created a table that plays on the contrast in properties between wood and stone (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

OMA has unveiled plans for its first building in Tokyo – a glass skyscraper with an elevated garden, which will form part of an emerging business district in the Japanese city. (more…) View the full article

A goalkeeper-themed mural and football kit-coloured fixtures appear inside this pizza restaurant, which architecture studio Mast has created near Dynamo Moscow's stadium in the Russian capital. Read more

A 64-metre-long wooden structure was designed by Threefold Architects to create secluded workspaces, staircases and informal meeting areas inside this shared office building in south-east London. (more…) View the full article