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"More stuff will not make us happier," say the designers and brands behind this year's Norwegian Presence showcase, who are calling for an industry-wide shift towards recycled and recyclable objects. Read more View the full article

Fourteen Dutch designers show solutions for a more sustainable future in Channelling Change: Inside A Designer's Brain, a virtual exhibition presented here as part of VDF x Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

Huge photographic prints conjure the illusion of translucent marble over the glass walls of this music library at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dara Huang, founder of architecture studio Design Haus Liberty, will speak to Dezeen in this live Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch above from 2:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

The SpaceX port that Elon Musk is building in Boca Chica, Texas, for launching commercial rockets to Mars, is at risk of being cut in two by Donald Trump's US-Mexico border wall. Read more

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

Dezeen promotion: Tokyo Designers Week is calling for design professionals, young creators and design schools to enter the Asia Awards, which will be presented during this year's event from 26 October to 4 November. (more...) View the full article

DMY Berlin: Leipzig designer Yi-Cong Lu presented these collapsible lamps at DMY Berlin earlier this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Multidisciplinary design studio Services Généraux has created a series of renderings that reimagine the interiors of a dilapidated home in the French countryside. Read more View the full article

The latest batch of designers and brands to be added to the line up for our Christmas pop-up store The Temporium include WRAP magazine (above), whose large format pull-out illustrations are perfect for wrapping presents. There are also pencils in the shape of crucifixes, lace-up leather grips for handlebars, deluxe paper planes and much more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Renderings of Takei Nabeshima Architects' inverted-pyramidal concrete holiday home and images of the temporary structures erected at this year's Burning Man festival feature in the latest edition of our weekly newsletter, Dezeen Mail. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail › View the full article

Nike's controversial Vaporfly shoe has been permitted for use in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics but the shoe Eliud Kipchoge wore to break the two-hour marathon record is banned. Read more View the full article

Brickwork walls, engraved tins ceilings and custom furniture feature in this boutique hotel in Tel Aviv. Read more

Tokyo architects Norihiko Dan and Associates have completed this visitor centre on the shore of Sun Moon Lake in Taiwan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen has teamed up with Sony to give away one of its Glass Sound wireless speakers. Read more View the full article

News: a research team in Zürich has created a flock of helicopter robots that can detect each others' positions and join together to create a larger flying machine. (more...) View the full article

The Chinese government has issued a decree "strictly prohibiting" the plagiarism of buildings in the country and severely limiting the construction of supertall skyscrapers. Read more View the full article

Stockholm 2014: all of the solid wood furniture in Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune's collection for Japanese brand Matsuso T has five sides (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Clouds of folded fabric line the inside of this pop-up store, created by Snarkitecture during Milan design week to mark the 80th anniversary of Italian accessories brand Valextra. Read more View the full article

This Montreal residential building by local studio Naturehumaine features a simple brick facade punctuated with square windows and a rear parking area topped by a steel canopy. (more…) View the full article

Opinion: as MoMA launches an online exhibition investigating design's relationship with violence, Dezeen columnist Justin McGuirk looks beyond objects like 3D-printed guns and drones to ask "what do our weapons say about the systems they support?" (more...) View the full article

Northmodern 2016: glass-fronted cabinets and pick-and-mix lighting systems feature in Danish brand Ferm Living's Autumn Winter 2016 collection (slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Described by Queen Elizabeth as "one of the modern wonders of the world", the Barbican Estate in London is one of the largest examples of the Brutalist style and represents a utopian ideal for inner-city living. (more...) View the full article

The Seoul office of Dutch designers Studio Dumbar has re-designed the national road signage system for South Korea. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Portuguese studio SAMI arquitectos have completed a blackened timber house on the hillside of a Portuguese island. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article