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There are just five days to go until Dezeen Awards 2019 entries close, so here are five reasons to enter our award-winning awards programme. Read more

Traditional Indian crafts are celebrated in the inaugural collection from Kam Ce Kam, a furniture brand launched by 27-year-old designer Jehanara Knowles during London Design Festival. Read more

A new generation of designers is reinventing aluminium, a material that is cheap, abundant and relatively easy to work with, for experimental one-off furniture designs. Read more

London's Aram Gallery is hosting an exhibition of products by young designers who are working with ordinary materials and processes in "extraordinary" ways (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our next movie from Eindhoven, design graduates Aagje Hoekstra and Evelien Crooy show us the bioplastic and ink made from insects that they presented at this year's Dutch Design Week. (more...) View the full article

You can’t miss this bright red psychiatric centre in Spain, where the differently pitched roofs are meant to reveal how much mental activity takes place in each room. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Students don't need to take creative subjects at school as they are already exposed to creative processes thanks to mobile phones, according to the author of a new government-commissioned report on the UK's creative sector. Read more View the full article

News: the under-30s spend more time on the toilet than the over-55s – and they're checking social media rather than reading a book, according to new research on Europe's bathroom habits. (more...) View the full article

New York studio Young Projects has completed a warming hut for a housing development in Alberta that consists of a fireplace set within a slatted wooden box (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Fir trusses create triangles that meet in the middle of the ceiling at a community hall in California designed by Siegel & Strain Architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Rio 2016: after it hosts the women's basketball tournament at this summer's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, this venue will be overhauled halfway through the games to accommodate fencing (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This bright red youth centre in Denmark by architects Cornelius + Vöge is coloured to match the fishing cabins of the surrounding village (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The Royal Institute of British Architects has revealed five possible designs for a youth centre that will form part of the £23 million redevelopment of Preston's Brutalist bus station, which was recently saved from demolition (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2014: Japanese design studio YOY presented a lamp that projects the shape of a shade onto a wall and a rug that doubles as a chair in Milan this week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

YPYC Architects has paired pastel pink and white surfaces with glass bricks to make a small patisserie in Hangzhou appear more spacious. Read more

Royal College of Art graduate Yu Li has designed a portable kitchen that is aimed at millennials with limited space in their homes. Read more View the full article

Slideshow: architectural photographer Leonardo Finotti has sent us images of this house for a couple of art collectors and their children designed by São Paulo architect Isay Weinfeld. (more…) View the full article

You can clamber down the inside walls of this ramshackle timber basin in the desert by Los Angeles designers Ball-Nogues Studio into a surprise swimming pool. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Hong Kong studio Davidclovers and Los Angeles artist C.E.B. Reas have created a shop front in Hong Kong where LED lighting pulses through patterns cut in the surface of two large Corian doors. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dabs of plaster pattern the raw concrete surfaces in this Tokyo bedsit partially renovated by local architects Yuichi Yoshida & Associates as a short-term living space (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Japanese studio Yuji Kimura Design has hidden this Tokyo house behind a tall white wall to maintain the residents' privacy (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Researcher Yujia Bian has cast the word architecture into bars of soap that are being used at the Oslo Architecture Triennale to question the idea of creating pristine works of architecture. Read more

Stockholm 2015: Japanese designer Yuki Yoshikawa of Nanashiproducts used layers of acrylic gouache paint to highlight wood grains on the seat and back of these simple chairs. (more…) View the full article

A bulky concrete apartment appears to hover above the glass roof of a patisserie at this combined home and workplace in Chiba Prefecture by Japanese studio Yuko Nagayama & Associates (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This cafe and sweet shop in Okamoto, Japan, was designed by architect Yuko Nagayama to look like two separate buildings with a small courtyard and tree sandwiched in the middle. (more...) View the full article