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London studio Bompas & Parr has predicted design and lifestyle trends that will emerge during and after the coronavirus pandemic, including sanitiser party pieces and a museum dedicated to touch. Read more View the full article

Food design studio Bompas & Parr has created an incredibly lightweight edible meringue using a process originally developed to manufacture the lightest solid material ever made. Read more View the full article

London design studio Bompas & Parr has used bioluminescent algae to create a collection of orb-shaped necklace pendants that glow when shaken. (more…) View the full article

London-based studio Bompas & Parr has created two kinds of "chameleon bloom" for Valentine's Day that change colour when exposed to certain temperatures (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

White metal mesh filters daylight into the terrace of this extension of a 1950s detached home in Barcelona by Bonba Studio. Read more View the full article

This restaurant interior wrapped in a curtain of mirrored fins by London architecture and interiors firm d-raw has opened at the Fenwick department store on London’s New Bond Street. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A stainless steel fireplace surround and "hacked" IKEA cabinets are among the features that architecture duo BoND have added during the overhaul of their apartment in New York's Chelsea. Read more View the full article

A chair made famous by James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me, created by prolific Danish designer Verner Panton, is being revived. Read more

Product news: South Korean designer Soyoon Choi has created a wooden lounge chair with armrests inspired by a ribcage. (more...) View the full article

Architecture studio Bonell+Dòriga has revamped an apartment in Ricardo Bofill's Walden 7 in Barcelona, dotting its interior with colourful geometric elements that reference the building's facade. Read more View the full article

Volcanic stone, grey metal and large stretches of glass form the facades of this eight-storey building in Manhattan's Chelsea neighbourhood, which serves as the global headquarters for Pace Gallery. Read more View the full article

It’s taken a while, but German-born designer Moritz Waldemeyer has sent some official pictures of the laser suit he created for U2 singer Bono for their current world tour. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

US bike brand Bontrager has launched an improved bicycle helmet that they say is 48 times more likely to prevent concussion than standard foam versions. Read more

Spanish architects MYCC have designed the interior for a combined coffee and book shop in Madrid, exposing the original warehouse structure and inserting a glass floor between storeys. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Ever judged a book by its cover? Amsterdam creative studio Moore has reversed the well-known idiom – designing a sleeve that scans your face and won't open unless approached without prejudice (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

A tower of books is encased inside a glass pyramid at this public library that Dutch firm MVRDV have completed in Spijkenisse, the Netherlands (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Walls of books fold around a wooden staircase in this renovation and extension to a north London home by Hackney studio Platform 5 Architects. (more...) View the full article

Swiss designer Florian Hauswirth has designed a collection of bedroom furniture including an ash shelving unit with components made by a bookbinder. (more...) View the full article

This lightweight lamp by French designer Léonard Kadid uses a book as a base. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Trace Architecture Office has inserted a bookshop and cafe into old rammed earth gables of a long-abandoned house in rural China. Read more View the full article

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has designed a 20-sided wireless speaker that can rest on any of its triangular faces. (more...) View the full article

Cape Town architect Mark Thomas and engineer Henry Fagan have completed a sinuous wooden walkway that meanders through the treetops of a botanical garden on the eastern slopes of Table Mountain (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architecture firm Brisac Gonzalez has designed a multi-storey car park in Bordeaux where vehicles sit prominently between ground-floor shops and roof-top housing. (more...) View the full article

Paris design studio A+A cooren have designed a collection of lights held together with velcro. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Biennale 2016: architect Fernando Romero has unveiled plans for a binational city spanning the US-Mexico border, amid Donald Trump's calls for a wall to be built between the two countries (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article