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Furniture designers are ditching the skinny look for plump forms that appear to have been pumped full of air. In our latest roundup, we look at 10 designs that represent the trend. Read more View the full article

Dutch studio i29 have coated everything in grey at this pop-up furniture shop in Amsterdam. (more…) View the full article

Brightly coloured tables and chairs are hidden in plain sight between the shelves of this bookcase by graduate designer Orla Reynolds. (more…) View the full article

Stockholm-based artist Åsa Stenerhag has created a series of ceramic objects that she suggests might be alien body parts. Read more View the full article

Tel Aviv architect Asaf Lerman has renovated a library building designed by Oscar Niemeyer for Israel's Haifa University, and added a new wing to complement its brutalist concrete and glass construction. Read more View the full article

This visitor centre in Tokyo by Japanese architects Kengo Kuma & Associates looks like a stack of smaller buildings with sloping roofs. (more…) View the full article

British designers BarberOsgerby present seven sculptural pieces based on boats, planes and satellites at Haunch of Venison gallery in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2013: designer Daniel Rybakken will launch a table lamp that dims as it's pushed down a thin vertical stand at Euroluce in Milan this week. (more...) View the full article

French design student Charline Ronzon-Jaricot has created a "scent vase" that enables users to detect the different notes of a perfume usually only identifiable to experts. (more…) View the full article

News: Asda is to become the first UK supermarket to offer an in-store 3D scanning and 3D printing service. (more...) View the full article

Hamburg studio Asdfg Architekten has converted a 19th-century miller's house in Berlin into a modern family home arranged around original brick walls (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Pink accents contrast the pale palette that US firm ASH NYC has used for the interior of this farm-to-counter restaurant in Boston. Read more View the full article

Wooden shingles clad the end wall and pitched roofs of this terrace in the English county of Hampshire, designed as a prototype for affordable, sustainable construction in the area (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Design Indaba 2015: jewellery items in this collection by South African designer Ashley Heather are made from silver salvaged from discarded electronic products. (more…)

News: a record-breaking 53 skyscrapers over 200 metres high were completed in Asia in 2013, accounting for three-quarters of the year's tallest new buildings, according to the latest industry report. (more...) View the full article

German artist Hendrik Beikirch has painted a 70-metre-high mural of a fisherman a few blocks away from Daniel Libeskind’s Haeundae I’Park skyscrapers in Busan, South Korea (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut has developed a concept to introduce natural ecosystems into cities with designs for "farmscrapers" made from piles of giant glass pebbles for a site in Shenzhen, China (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

To provide children at this primary school with more room to play, London designer Asif Khan has created a stilted structure that stands two metres above the playground (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival 2016: architect Asif Khan has created three temporary pavilions thick with plants to give the harried London public space to relax, work and socialise (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architect Asif Khan installed a grid of red-stained timber columns in the courtyard of Milan's Palazzo Litta, to create a place of refuge for visitors to this year's Milan design week. Read more View the full article

Over 170,000 visitors to this year's Sochi Winter Olympics will be able to have their faces scanned and recreated on the facade of a building as part of an installation by London designer Asif Khan. (more...) View the full article

British architecture studio Asif Khan has revealed the entrance gateways to the Dubai Expo 2020, woven from carbon fibre to create 21-metre-high mashrabiya-style lattices. Read more View the full article

London studio Gundry & Ducker have added oak booths and stencilled tree-like graphics to the interior of an Italian chain restaurant in Hertfordshire, England. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Russian studio Asketik has designed a cafe with bright white interiors in Moscow, offset with many indoor plants to soften the industrial space. Read more

Designers FærID of Iceland exhibited a picnic set made of birch with a plaited leather strap at Design March in Reykjavík last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article