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Scooter sharing platform Bird has launched a new electric scooter that claims to be "more durable, powerful and longer-lasting" than previous models, and can be bought as well as hired. Read more

Dezeen in Isreal: these high-heeled shoes disguised as birds are by designer Kobi Levi, whose footwear resembling inflatable sex dolls caused a stir with our readers back in November. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Product news: British design brand All Lovely Stuff have created a bird box inside a flowerpot. (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival: this mechanical contraption by artist Martin Smith and his design company Laikingland will wake you up by chirping like a bird (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Japanese designers Nendo have built an enormous woodland nesting box with 78 entrances for birds on one side and one big door for humans on the other (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Weathered cedar covers this Vermont house, which local studio Birdseye Design built into a grassy slope to take cues from nearby barns. Read more View the full article

Footwear brand Birkenstock has worked with design studio Vinson & Co to create a showroom inside a grandiose Paris apartment, where shoes are displayed in living-room-style spaces. Read more

East London studio IWANT has overhauled the birth certificate to bring it into the digital age and make it more personal. (more...) View the full article

Shoes that undergo physical changes to represent stages in a life cycle – from floating in amniotic fluid to rebirth through fire – form this collection by London designer Benjamin John Hall (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

This elliptical chapel near Oxford by London studio Niall McLaughlin Architects contains a group of arching timber columns behind its textured stone facade (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: American designer Victor Vetterlein has made an edible desk lamp. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotions: Textiles made using traditional Eastern European weaving techniques, and coffee tables inspired by a film from French director JL Godard, featured in this year's BiznesUp! design made in Poland forum. Read more View the full article

BIG architects Bjarke Ingels and Jakob Lange have launched a money-raising campaign to install a huge, inflatable mirrored sphere at this year's Burning Man festival, and are offering "juicy perks" in return for donations. Read more View the full article

Architects Bjarke Ingels and Simon Frommenwiler have teamed up to create a brightly hued house, which can be taken-apart and rebuilt, as part of 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen, Denmark. Read more

News: BIG and Heatherwick Studio are collaborating on a new headquarters building for Google in Mountain View, California. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: at interiors event Designer Werktag in Munich next month 14 studios will present their work alongside lectures including Bjarke Ingels of Copenhagen and Tristan Kobler of Zurich. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish firm BIG is reportedly in talks to redesign the final tower at the World Trade Center site, potentially ousting the original architects as part of the developer's tenancy negotiations. (more…) View the full article

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has designed a chair for furniture brand Fritz Hansen based on the shape of his firm's Via 57 West "courtscraper" in New York. (more…) View the full article

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has been named as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2016, with a citation written by his former employer Rem Koolhaas that compares Ingels to a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. (more…) View the full article

BIG founder Bjarke Ingels says he is "honestly impressed" by young job applicant Étienne Duval, whose covering letter is an animated rap that has become a YouTube sensation (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Bjarke Ingels' firm BIG has launched its own in-house engineering department to cater to increasingly technically ambitious projects. Read more View the full article

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, founder of BIG, has joined the cast of Game of Thrones for one of the final episodes of the hit television show. Read more

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has met Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro as part of a visit to investigate developing a tourism masterplan for the northeast region of the country. Read more View the full article

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has revealed designs for the Mars Science City, which will operate as a space simulation campus near Dubai where scientists will work on "humanity's march into space". Read more View the full article