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In the third part of today's collaboration between Virtual Design Festival and Forward Festival, Freitag creative director Pascal Dulex explains how the Swiss accessories brand evolved from making bags out of truck tarpaulins to creating compostable clothes. Read more View the full article

March is up next in our roundup of the most popular stories from each month in 2011, with a sixteenth-century house in Girona converted into two contemporary holiday apartments at number one. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Platform: product designer Paula Benvegnú uses Dezeen Platform to present Family Tea today, a set of 30 ceramic cups and a teapot that represent a family tree. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week we've selected the best architecture, interiors and design roles available on Dezeen Jobs, including positions at architecture studio Hawkins\Brown and fashion house PVH Europe. Read more

In this week's comments update, readers are discussing Phineas Harper's claims that the pursuit of infinite economic growth is driving climate breakdown. Read more

Dezeen archive: following our stories on Burger King’s rustic refit in Singapore and McDonalds’ new look in France, here are some more designer interiors for restaurant chains including Little Chef, Pizza Express and Austrian chicken shops. See all the stories » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: Rosa is a collection of lighting created by designer Marc Wood that aims to showcase the "opaque beauty of natural marble". Read more View the full article

The all-white rooms of the Annso Hill Hotel in Tengchong City, western China, are covered with a traditional tiled roof, which is broken by a zigzagging entrance. Read more

Studio Nienke Hoogvliet has harnessed a method of transforming wastewater into bioplastic, and used it to create a sustainable cremation urn. Read more View the full article

Architect Elia Nedkov paired exposed concrete with clean white displays for the interior of this shoe shop in the historical centre of Sofia, Bulgaria. (more...) View the full article

Cafe-style seating and muted interiors outfit this New York office that local studio Format Architecture Office has designed with places to mingle, eat and work. Read more View the full article

Breaking news: Christo, the Bulgarian artist famous for wrapping buildings, has died of natural causes at the age of 84. Read more View the full article

British architect Atkins has started work on a 460-metre-high skyscraper in Ho Chi Minh City, which is set to become the tallest building in Vietnam on completion. (more…) View the full article

Design Indaba 2015: designer Kathryn Fleming has presented prototypes for new organisms that could be created using synthetic biology, including a cat-dog hybrid with reflective fur and a tightrope-walking herbivore. (more…) View the full article

Rapt Studio is inviting people to take a seat at a virtual table that offers an "experience of connection" at VDF x Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

Montreal design studio Lambert & Fils has used the limbo of lockdown to create four "brothers and sisters" for its popular Dorval 01 light, which are being displayed digitally for the first time as part of the VDF x Sight Unseen collaboration. Read more View the full article

NASA has named Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, Elon Musk's SpaceX and Alabama-based Dynetics as the three teams that will develop vehicles for its planned moon landing in 2024. Read more View the full article

Photographer Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre has sent us these photographs of a curved concrete library in San Sebastian with a narrow courtyard driven through its centre. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Every floor of this Tokyo house by Japanese studio Keiji Ashizawa Design opens onto a garden or terrace. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Movie: architect Piers Gough of CZWG and structural engineer Hanif Kara explain their design for Canada Water Library, a bronzed, hexagonal building on a constrained site in south London, in this movie by filmmakers Living Projects. (more…) View the full article

A black steel-framed glass house by architecture studio Bence Mulcahy extends a 19th-century villa in Mount Stuart, Tasmania. Read more View the full article

This idyllic pine house by the sea outside Stockholm has a glass-fronted lookout loft on its roof. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture firm BIG's verdant mixed-use complex, reminiscent of Moshe Safdie's experimental Habitat 67 housing in Montreal, has been approved for Toronto. Read more View the full article

Beijing tech startup Zero Zero Robotics has launched a self-flying drone camera that uses facial recognition to record video while hovering in the air. (more…) View the full article

Rhode Island School of Design alumni have designed face shields to meet the growing demand for medical supplies during the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article