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Travel agency Luxury Action is planning to build the "northernmost hotel in the world" by placing a group of heated glass igloos at the North Pole. Read more

Japanese architects Shimpei Oda and Tetsuya Tanji made only subtle changes to this unfinished office unit in Nara, to turn it into a design studio. Read more View the full article

Creative agency Heimat Berlin used images of lettering graffitied onto the Berlin Wall to create this typeface commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the barrier separating East and West Berlin. Read more View the full article

Childcare subscription app Brella has opened its first space in Los Angeles, comprising play areas, a co-working space and a yoga studio. Read more View the full article

A restaurant has opened in Frankfurt that combines the classic styling of a French brasserie with contemporary artworks and rich textiles. Read more View the full article

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has defended his decision to meet with Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and says he intends to work in the country in the future. Read more View the full article

Unusual, innovative and avant-garde approaches to seating were among the highlights of Dutch design fair Object Rotterdam, which took place earlier this month. Anna Winston picks six of the most intriguing chairs from the annual event's crop of up-and-coming talent. Read more View the full article

The lead architect on the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower, which was completed the year before the building caught fire in 2017, has revealed that he was not aware of all the fire safety advice for tall buildings. Read more View the full article

Architect Baerbel Mueller and architectural designer Juergen Strohmayer have created a multi-use gallery for the Nubuke Foundation in Ghana. Read more View the full article

In the fourth part of today's collaboration between Virtual Design Festival and Forward Festival, artist and designer Sarah Illenberger discusses how she makes illustrations from everyday objects. Read more View the full article

Cemetery Castel San Gimignano has been renovated by Italian architecture studio Microscape using local limestone stacked in metal baskets. Read more View the full article

San Francisco's Blue Truck Studio clad the exterior of this holiday house in Manhattan Beach, California with cedar siding to tone down its unusual geometries. Read more View the full article

Chicago office Krueck & Sexton have completed the restoration of two apartment towers in Chicago by German-American architect Mies van der Rohe. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Mid-century homes in Palm Springs and vintage advertisements from the 1950s are just some of the things that design studio Daytrip drew upon to create the vibrant interiors of this central London office. Read more View the full article

Spanish architects Carlos Pereda Iglesias and Óscar Pérez Silanes have competed a glass and red brick primary school in Pamplona, Spain. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: New York designer Tobias Wong has died aged 35 - Core77 See release from Aric Chen below. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: Japanese studio Tetsuo Kondo Architects and environmental engineering firm Transsolar have suspended a cloud inside the Arsenale exhibition space at the Venice Architecture Biennale. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch firm Most Architecture have created this temporary office from wooden pallets for an Amsterdam advertising company. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s another house by Rotterdam studio Pasel Kuenzel Architects located on a former industrial site in Leiden, Netherlands as part of their series of eleven town houses for the area. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Marianne Goebl (below) has been appointed director of design collectors’ fair Design Miami/. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This office in Paris by French designer Mathieu Lehanneur for advertising agency JWT features caves made from pulped paper and plants that play music. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: new to our movie site Dezeen Screen is this movie by Bjarke Ingels Group that explains their competition-winning design for a mosque, Islamic centre and museum in Tirana, Albania. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This austere house outside Warsaw by Polish architect Robert Konieczny has a folding exterior that allows varying degrees of enclosure. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This walnut jewellery case by Munich accessory designer Saskia Diez for German brand e15 separates jewels within carved concentric circles. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Dezeen are proud to be media partners for designjunction, which will take place at Victoria House Basement, 37 – 63 Southampton Row, London WC1B 4DA from 22 to 25 September as part of the London Design Festival. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article