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Mandalaki Studio teamed up with Italian car company Estrima to design the "first" electric concept car made from 80 per cent recycled plastics. Read more

American fashion designer Zac Posen has created a dress constructed from 3D-printed petals, which was worn by British model Jourdan Dunn at this year's Met Gala in New York. Read more

The UK government has promised to pay to replace combustible cladding on private high-rise housing, almost two years after the Grenfell Tower fire. Read more

Chinese car companies are putting their history of copying behind them and now have the confidence to create their own designs, says Peter Horbury, head of design for automotive brand Geely. Read more

Aged brick walls and ceiling beams hint at the past lives of this building in Barcelona, which Cadaval & Solà-Morales has turned into a contemporary home. Read more

Here are five of the best opportunities for visualisers available on Dezeen Jobs right now, including roles at Studio Gang and David Chipperfield Architects. Read more

Industrial designer Marc Newson has created soft-shell versions of Louis Vuitton's suitcases, making them lighter and more spacious on the inside. Read more

Chinese architecture firm LUO Studio has made a beetle-shaped micro library for children, from the abandoned frame of a bike-sharing scheme bicycle. Read more

Skeletal stools and a blobby, monolithic table and chair features in this series of furniture by French designer Elissa Lacoste. Read more

Dezeen's editorial director Amy Frearson will speak to the designers behind Italian furniture brand Minotti about their approach to combing heritage with a vision for the future. Watch the livestream here from 12:00pm on Thursday 9 May. Read more

We no longer need desks, say designers Ed Barber and Jay Osgerby, because the office of the future is more of a meeting place than a work environment. Read more

Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has designed a temporary replacement for the House of Commons, to be used by UK Parliament while the Palace of Westminster is restored. Read more

Alara Alkan details how she became a researcher at product design studio Birsel + Seck for the Dezeen Jobs careers guide. Read more

New York firm SHoP Architects has designed an irregularly stacked office building for the US Embassy in Bangkok. Read more

The University of Stuttgart has continued its experiments into biomimicry and robotic construction with two pavilions at the Bundesgartenschau horticultural show in Germany. Read more

The European Union has awarded its annual architecture prize to Transformation of 530 Dwellings, a renovation of 1960s housing in France by Frédéric Druot Architecture, Lacaton & Vassal Architectes and Christophe Hutin Architecture. Read more

The Guggenheim Foundation has revealed that its Frank Gehry-designed art museum in the United Arab Emirates is "on track" to complete in four years time. Read more

Designers can move easily between drawing in a virtual-reality environment and on their tablet using the latest update to Gravity Sketch. Read more

The Met's Costume Institute has unveiled a pink-hued exhibition exploring camp fashion across the centuries, from the playful to the outrageous. Read more

Wood-lined rooms, shaded corridors and water walkways are just some of the features that Hilarchitects has incorporated into this meditation space in north eastern China. Read more

Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki has reimagined a sixty-year-old electronic sequencer machine as a physical piece of music software that uses artificial intelligence to generate melodies. Read more

Architecture office MLZD built the sports hall with a sculptural concrete wall below ground level to preserve views of a heritage-listed converted monastery in Wettingen, Switzerland. Read more

A former Frieze artistic director has established a new art and design fair in New York that offers exhibitors fewer restrictions and lower prices. Read more

American actress Zendaya wore a transforming Tommy Hilfiger dress to the Met Gala last night, which changed colour using technology hidden beneath the skirt. Read more

In this week's comments update, readers are seriously considering a proposal from Miysis Studio for the rebuild of Notre-Dame Cathedral. Read more