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Dezeen Wire: the developer behind plans for a tower designed by architecture practice AL_A in Shoreditch, East London has withdrawn its planning application – BDonline The design for a twisted tower on a former industrial estate attracted over a thousand letters from local residents. Developers Londonewcastle say they will adapt the proposal before submitting a new planning application early next year. See our previous story on the original design for the Huntingdon Estate here, another AL_A project in London that was scrapped recently here and more projects by AL_A here. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> …

Japanese firm Torafu Architects has designed a lightweight workstation that can be folded into itself for easy carrying. (more…) View the full article

Rafael Viñoly's Walkie Talkie skyscraper in London, which has so far melted cars and been blamed for powerful downdraughts, has been named the worst building in the UK this year. (more…) View the full article

Architect David Adjaye has completed the renovation of this Art Deco building in London, providing six storeys of office accommodation. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: British design company Established & Sons have appointed Maurizio Mussati as their new chief executive officer. See press release below. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with architects Matteo Thun & Partners, and designers Barber Osgerby and Tom Dixon, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Heatherwick Studio, Universal Design Studio and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Aesop's inaugural book offers a snapshot of its three-decade-long history. Creative director, Marsha Meredith, talks through some of her favourite moments from the skincare brand's past. Read more View the full article

Architects Casper Mueller Kneer have converted a south London warehouse into the city’s third White Cube gallery. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: British designer Tom Dixon has partnered with Ambra Medda and Martina Mondadori to announce the launch of MOST, a new hub at the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan next April. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New York artist and designer Moritz Resl has compiled a new "ghostly" typeface by overlaying each letter of the alphabet from over 900 existing font families (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: London architecture firm Grimshaw has unveiled a masterplan for the home of the annual Wimbledon Championships tennis tournament. (more...) View the full article

Aguahoja I by Mediated Matter Group, which was named design project of the year at Dezeen Awards 2019, could be used in architecture says judge Nelly Ben Hayoun in this movie produced by Dezeen. Read more View the full article

Dutch architecture studio GAAGA have completed this house in Leiden, the Netherlands, with a roof that pitches inwards to create a v-shaped profile. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Zaha Hadid's glacier-inspired benches (above) and more new products from Milan feature in Dezeen Mail issue 147, which also includes the lastest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 147 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Dezeen reader Salomé Francpourmoi has emailed us her analysis of the gender and race of designers whose portraits we’ve published on our homepage in the last seven months which, she says, shows a predominance of white males. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish studio Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos have completed a road-side restaurant and event space on a motorway junction near Zaragoza, Spain. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Artist Edoardo Tresoldi has partially filled the walls of Simbiosi – a ghostly wire-mesh sculpture on a hillside at the Arte Sella open-air museum in Italy – with rocks. Read more

Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Alejandro Aravena's Reporting from the Front-themed Venice Biennale is filled with good intentions, but can architects ever really be honest about architecture, asks Mimi Zeiger. (more…) View the full article

News: architects have been surprisingly slow to adopt augmented reality as a design tool, according to co-founder of visualisation studio Inition Andy Millns. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Space: young Croatian designer Mirna Kerr presents her jewellery made of bulldog clips, cable ties and plumbing components at Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Artists and designers including Vivienne Westwood, Christopher Kane and Wolfgang Tillmans have created protest-style posters about coronavirus for Dazed Media. Read more View the full article

As our Virtual Design Festival reaches the halfway point, founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs selects his highlights from the most ambitious project Dezeen has ever attempted. Read more View the full article

Italian ceramicist Paola Paronetto has unveiled two new vase designs, created using her distinctive "paper clay" technique. Read more View the full article

Milan 2012: Austrian designer Robert Stadler will present a bookshelf that separates the books you’ve finished from those you haven’t read yet at Galleria Nilufar in Milan next week. (more…) View the full article

Spanish designer Antoni Arola has created a series of stackable tables, shelves and surfaces with light flooding from their undersides. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article