Dezeen archive: one of our most controversial stories this week was a strikingly red psychiatric centre, so we’ve grouped together all of our stories about bright red architecture. See all the stories » See all our archive...

These desks by London architects Studio Octopi were designed to look like miniature basketball courts. The steel frame of each desk emerges up through the plywood surface at one end to provide sockets, switches and a lamp, which the...

Translucent windows create a glowing frame around the facade of this Tokyo townhouse when the lights are turned on inside. Designed by Japanese studio Yoritaka Hayashi Architects, House in Nakameguro has four storeys but is the same...

Architect Daniel Libeskind has completed a family of curved towers beside a bay in Singapore. Alternating between 24 and 41 storeys-high, the six glazed residential towers feature rooftop gardens and are connected to one another by...

The latest menswear collection by fashion designer Sruli Recht of Iceland features leather made from dolphin skin, fabric woven from horse hair and silk extracted from a spider’s gland implanted in a goat. Most of the garments are...

Designer Noé Duchaufour Lawrance has fitted out an alpine ski lodge in the French Alps with a trunk-like hearth, curved fir walls and a floating bed. The chunky fireplace is anchored to the centre of a family living room, located...

Dezeen Wire: architect Zaha Hadid is to design new headquarters for the Central Bank of Iraq in Baghdad. Hadid, who was born in Iraq, signed an agreement at a ceremony held at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. See more projects...

Dezeen Screen: design graduate Ariane Prin uses an extruding machine to press pencils from waste materials she finds at the Royal College of Art workshops in her project From Here to Here, presented and filmed at our micro-exhibition...

Sugary treats are arranged like ingredients for potions inside this dimly lit patisserie in north Athens. Greek firm Kois Associated Architects designed the shop, named Sweet Alchemy, for celebrity pastry chef Stelios Parliaros. Some of...

London designer Phil Cuttance has built a machine to cast faceted vases that are unique every time. Watch the movie » The Faceture series is made of water-based resin, rotated inside a folded mould as it hardens. The mould can be...