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Dezeen promotion: Nomos Glashütte has added three automatic watches to its Campus collection, designed for graduates and young professionals. Read more

Mexican firm Santos Bolivar Architects has given the red-block buildings that form this inn reflective bottoms to make it seem like they are floating above the arid landscape in Valle de Guadalupe. Read more

Rem Koolhaas will explore the radical change of the countryside in an exhibition coming to New York's Guggenheim museum next year. Read more View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers are struggling to understand how the Hunters Point library in Long Island City passed building approval with many areas not accessible to people with disabilities. Read more View the full article

American artist Syd Mead, who is best known for his visual concept designs for sci-fi film Blade Runner, has died at the age of 86. Read more View the full article

Hydbrid Air Vehicles has revealed the production-ready design of its Airlander 10 — and said the aircraft once fondly known as "the Flying Bum" might go electric in the near future. Read more View the full article

Canadian architectural practice StudioAC has taken cues from the work of late American designer Donald Judd for fittings inside this Toronto home. Read more View the full article

Projecting windows and a fully glazed gable end provide views of nature from inside the black and white living space of a house in the resort town of Hepburn Springs, Australia. Read more View the full article

This week on Dezeen, Carlo Ratti designed an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients from shipping containers and Dyson prepared to provide 15,000 ventilators for the NHS. Read more View the full article

Virtual Design Festival launched this week! Here's a roundup of everything that happened in week one including live interviews, collaborations with cultural organisations and video messages from designers around the world. Read more View the full article

Container Atlas brings together examples of shipping-container architecture from around the world. Here, one of the book's editors picks his top five projects from the book's latest edition. Read more View the full article

The first part of Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with Stockholm Design Week sees a selection of well-known Scandinavia-based designers come together in a relay talk. Read more View the full article

Eindhoven designers VanBerlo have been awarded an iF gold award for their Batavus Utility Bike, which has a frame based on the shape of a paperclip. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron and Canadian studio Quadrangle have unveiled plans for a super-skinny skyscraper in Toronto that will rise 324 metres. Read more View the full article

A residential block clad in perforated steel shutters by UK architects Piercy Conner Architects is about to begin construction in Kolkata, India. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: to celebrate their 150th anniversary French brand Ligne Roset are offering a 25% discount on their classic Togo seating range by Michel Ducaroy. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American artist Jeff Koons unveiled his Art Car designed for BMW at the Pompidou Centre in Paris last night. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This skyscraper by Mexican studio Rojkind Arquitectos is about to commence construction in Mexico City. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish industrial designers KiBiSi have collaborated on the redesign of a two-seater aircraft that converts into a vehicle that can be driven on normal roads. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This winery by Hungarian architects Plant sits at the foot of a volcanic hill in Hungary and is clad in concrete panels indented with the pattern of grapevines. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Threefold Architects of London have converted a set of Grade II-listed warehouses into a family home just outside Bath, England. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan designer Emanuele Pizzolorusso has created a series of maps for Italian brand Palomar that are designed to survive being screwed up and stuffed into a pocket or bag. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Alice Rawsthorn reviews Sustainism Is the New Modernism, a book by cultural theorist Michiel Schwarz and designer Joost Elffers to be released next month - New York Times </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Italian websites are reporting the launch of Tortona Design Week, a new initiative that will take place in Milan from 12-17 April. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Italian studio Matteo Thun & Partners present a series of gently rounded bathroom fittings for German design brand Dornbracht at ISH 2011 in Frankfurt, which opens today. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article