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Japanese auto brand Suzuki has debuted a pair of retro-styled concept cars at Tokyo Motor Show 2019, including a driverless "mobile room" and a hybrid electric coupe with cameras in place of wing mirrors. Read more View the full article

Guest artists will be invited to live and work inside this shard-like timber hut. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Projects by HOK, Arquitectonica and Morphosis have been singled out for criticism in Trump's draft executive order for federal buildings, which would outlaw brutalist and deconstructivist styles if it becomes law. Read more View the full article

There's a lot more to sound design than special effects, says Yuri Suzuki. The London-based designer talks Dezeen through seven projects that show how he is using design to improve our relationship with noise. Read more

Rome is trialling a scheme where people can recycle plastic bottles in return for free rides on the city's public transport system. Read more

Creating personal protective equipment for frontline medical workers fighting coronavirus is just like making sportswear for an athlete, says Nike's Michael Donaghu, who was part of the team that made face shields from the brand's supply chain. Read more View the full article

Previews of products for Milan's design week have dominated our design coverage over the last seven days, including furniture and lighting collections by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Daniel Libeskind, and Richard Hutten. Read on for more architecture and design news, plus our Dezeen Music Project featured track. (more...) View the full article

This concrete social-housing block in Paris has artists’ studios on the ground floor and an oval-shaped opening in the roof. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

As cities grow and bee populations continue to dwindle, designers are increasingly looking for ways to bring nature to urban areas. In celebration of World Bee Day, we've rounded up seven urban shelters for the vital insects. Read more View the full article

Unparelld'arquitectes has turned four buttresses supporting a party wall in the town of Olot, Spain, into an arched public shelter that aims to "catalyse activity" on the street. Read more View the full article

Movie: as part of the build-up to an exclusive event we’re hosting at the Nike+ House of Innovation next week, we’ve filmed a series of movies with Nike‘s global creative director for the Olympics Martin Lotti about the brand’s latest products. First up is an ultra-light speed-suit developed to move faster than skin. (more…) View the full article

As part of today's VDF collaboration with Arthur Mamou-Mani, the French architect speaks about his Galaxia temple at the 2018 Burning Man festival and shares previously unseen aerial footage of it. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the opening of our Christmas pop-up store The Temporium on Thursday 1 December coincides with the Seven Dials shopping event and you can receive a 20% discount on all Dezeen Watch Store products as well as at other nearby stores on the evening by registering on the Seven Dials website. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Kiseung Lee of Helsinki wants people to fill stockings with more vital gifts this Christmas: donations to the blood bank. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: Murano is a tile collection by Italian designer Giovanni Barbieri that has a raised three-dimensional pattern inlaid with coloured Murano glass. Read more View the full article

Shane Davis has overhauled an industrial building in Brooklyn's Gowanus area into a spot that functions as a vegan cafe by day, and a bar and restaurant, complete with a nightclub, after dark. Read more

Royal College of Art graduate Brian Black has designed a concept rover and virtual-reality interface that would allow anyone on earth to contribute to space exploration missions. Read more View the full article

Winning an award for best architecture, interiors or design studio at Dezeen Awards can have a huge impact, according to last year's winners – and there are less than 20 days to enter and save 50 per cent. Read more View the full article

Architects Heatherwick Studio and Kohn Pedersen Fox have been appointed to design a new wing at Singapore's Changi Airport, which will aim to challenge the "sterility and soullessness" of terminal design. Read more View the full article

These shots by photographer Marc Goodwin offer a glimpse inside the offices of British architects including Norman Foster, Nicholas Grimshaw and the late Zaha Hadid. Read more View the full article

Handles on the tops of these pastel-coloured side tables let you easily move them around. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: in her latest article for The New York Times, design correspondent Alice Rawsthorn profiles Studio H, a humanitarian design project has spent a year teaching design skills to school children in a deprived part of North Carolina - The New York Times Rawsthorn describes the process that Studio H founders Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller undertook with the pupils – providing basic skills that resulted in the creation of a 2,000-square-foot pavilion at a local farmers market – and outlines the benefits of teaching design to students at a formative age. See links to more articles by Alice Rawsthorn here. </img> </img> </img> </img&g…

Airbus and Italdesign have revealed their plans to help city dwellers beat traffic with a modular vehicle that is part car, part drone. Read more View the full article

A pair of hollow red pyramids support the weight of these bridges that span the mouth of the river Elliðaár in the Icelandic capital (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Space: graduate designer Jólan van der Wiel creates a series of stools shaped by magnets live at Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article