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Pioneering architect James Wines laments the predominance of digitally created forms in architecture and calls for more buildings that "reach out to people" in the first of a series of talks VDF is broadcasting in partnership with Friedman Benda. Read more View the full article

Dezeenwire: Citizen Architect, a 60-minute documentary about late architect Samuel Mockbee of pioneering American undergraduate programme Rural Studio, premieres at the SXSW film festival in Austin, Texas on Wednesday 17 March. www.citizenarchitectfilm.com </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Citroën has revealed its vision for the future of mobility in cities – the Ami One Concept electric vehicle, which is designed to be both an alternative to shared bikes and cars. Read more

Citroën has released Ami, an electric car that will be available on a subscription service to city-dwellers as young as 14 years old as it doesn't require a driving license. Read more View the full article

Citroën's vision for the future of intercity travel is a fully electric and autonomous "living room on wheels", which takes cues from aviation design. Read more

A giant sleeping whippet and a bright red sundial are among the playful street furniture enlivening the UK capital during the London Festival of Architecture. Read more

Dutch designer Roeland Otten uses mosaic tiles, paint and photographic prints to disguise scruffy public buildings like this former public toilet in Amsterdam (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Reclaimed ceramic tiles decorate the recesses of this long white pavilion, which stretches across a redesigned town square in Provence by French architecture studio Comac (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Slideshow: Spanish photographer Victor Enrich has manipulated his own architectural photography to create impossible and fantastical structures, like this tower block that splits into two as though being unzipped. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects Panos Dragonas and Varvara Christopoulou believe there is no longer anywhere remote enough to build a wilderness hideaway, so have instead proposed a cabin raised above the Athens rooftops. (more…) View the full article

Hong Kong designer Michael Young has created a collection of computer bags for Chinese brand Zixag. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Brexit: London and other UK cities need to take "radical action" and introduce their own work permits so design firms can thrive after Brexit, according to former government policy adviser Rohan Silva. (more…) View the full article

Skate ramp-style fitting rooms and church-like archways feature inside this menswear store in Shanghai, which Kokaistudios has designed to reflect the "eclecticism" of city life. Read more

The vast LocHal library and events space, designed by Amsterdam-based studio Civic Architects, occupies a former glass and steel locomotive shed in Tilburg, the Netherlands. Read more

Slideshow: our second project this week by Madrid studio Exit Architects is a civic and cultural centre inside a former prison in Palencia, Spain. (more…) View the full article

Los Angeles architects Emergent have won a competition to design a sports centre and arena for the 12th National Games of the People’s Republic of China, to be held in Liaoning in 2013. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New York City artist CJ Hendry has designed "a psych ward mimicked as a children's wonderland" for an art exhibit in Brooklyn's Dumbo neighbourhood. Read more

Those unable to visit Mies van der Rohe's iconic Barcelona Pavilion can now tour the building remotely through a virtual-reality experience created by architectural visualisation studio CL3VER. Read more View the full article

News: parts of Zaha Hadid Architects' Library and Learning Centre in Vienna have been cordoned off after a piece of concrete cladding fell off. (more…) View the full article

Cladding is being removed from residential high-rises across the UK following concerns over fire safety in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Read more View the full article

Swedish architecture firm Claesson Koivisto Rune worked with expert Japanese carpenter Yuji Takahashi on this collection of hand-crafted wooden furniture, which doesn't have a single flat surface. Read more View the full article

Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has unveiled a boutique hotel in Tokyo, featuring 24 new design products. Read more View the full article

Claesson Koivisto Rune has contrasted the 250-year-old exterior of Bergen's Villa Terminus hotel in Norway with bright and contemporary interiors that reference several design periods. Read more View the full article

Stockholm design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has created a set of three huge cone-shaped lamps for Swedish lighting brand Wästberg. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2016: Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune's chair and sofa for Italian brand Tacchini feature tall sloping backs that form triangular shapes when seen from the side. (more…) View the full article