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With the 58th Venice Art Biennale now underway, design reporter Natashah Hitti picks out the exhibitions, pavilions and installations that are most likely to appeal to architects and designers, from giant hands to an artificial beach. Read more

Dezeen promotion: Improving sustainability, encouraging community and helping people navigate the data economy are some of the things that media architecture can offer. Read more

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

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: the penultimate stop on our Dezeen and MINI World tour is Eindhoven. In our first video report from the city, co-founder of Dutch Design Week Miriam van der Lubbe explains how the small industrial town has become one of the leading centres for design and technology in the world. (more...) View the full article

This vacation home in Washington state by Prentiss Balance Wickline encloses a courtyard within interlocking volumes clad in weathering steel. Read more View the full article

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

Stone tiles and horizontal cement boards were used to define the various volumes of this house in South Korea by architecture studio SPLK (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Virgin America has teamed up with creative agency Eleven to create a pair of leather high-top sneakers complete with a seat buckle, Wi-Fi and video screen. Read more View the full article

This week's issue of Dezeen Mail leads with a 3D-printed cast for fractured bones and includes all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 159 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Daylight Saving Time has ended and clocks have gone back for winter, but this week's featured Pinterest boards are here to bring some light into your day. Lighten up with impressive installations and flood your room with skylights and lightwells so you're never left in the dark. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › Read more View the full article

This small art gallery in Japan by Tokyo architects Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP has a softly curved exterior shape, sliced at one end to create a wide entranceway. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British architecture firm Foster + Partners has revealed plans to build an Uber Air Skyport in a new neighbourhood in Santa Clara. Read more

Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes a design for safe flying, an opinion piece from Reinier de Graaf and the Coughvid app. Read more View the full article

London studio Logical Art has created a series of papery necklaces with delicate cut-out patterns (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Copper louvres shade the glazed upper storeys of a police station in France that emerges from behind a cobbled stone wall. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In this movie we filmed at our Designed in Hackney Day, Sugru founder Jane ní Dhulchaointigh shares her journey through inventing and launching a “space-age rubber” that lets people customise their belongings and endorses the idea that “you don’t have to be an expert to do amazing things”. (more…) View the full article

The Design Museum, Dutch Design Week, Design Indaba, Ventura Projects and The World Around are among cultural partners who will be contributing to Virtual Design Festival, which launches on 15 April. Read more View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers Myrdle Court Press to give readers the chance to win books about Trenton Oldfield's time spent behind bars after disrupting the Oxford-Cambridge boat race. (more...) View the full article

Industrial designers Priestmangoode have revealed a concept for high-speed trains that would transfer passengers to local services while still moving, instead of stopping at stations. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designs of the Year 2014 category winners, including Zaha Hadid's Heydar Aliyev Center and Prada's Spring Summer 2014 collection, lead this week's Dezeen Mail newsletter, along with the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 199 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Dutch designer Richard Hutten based the leaf-like form of these wooden stools on the shape of the "lucky" four-leaf clover. Read more View the full article

Spanish architect José María Sánchez García has created a public square with a raised viewing platform, surrounding a Roman temple in Mérida, Spain. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The colour of light emitted by this lamp can be controlled using syringes filled with red, green and blue ink (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Glasgow School of Art graduate Erlend Prendergast has designed a modular robotic device that talks back to Amazon's virtual assistant Alexa in order to protect users from digital surveillance. Read more

Dezeen has changed. We've revamped our site to make it as beautiful as the architecture and design projects we write about. Read more View the full article