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Swiss-French photographer Hélène Binet has shot the recently completed port authority building in Antwerp by Zaha Hadid Architects, which features a huge glazed volume mounted on its roof. (more…) View the full article

El Hadi Jazairy and Rania Ghosn of collaborative architecture practice Design Earth discuss how to engage with the climate emergency in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic in this interview with architecture writer Carson Chan, which forms part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day. Read more View the full article

Horizontal slits create lines of shadow across the facades of this beachfront house in Israel by Pitsou Kedem Architects, which has a cantilevered upper storey that projects towards the Mediterranean Sea (+slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Three people can sleep, practice yoga or drink whisky together in this bedroom designed by London-based Scott Whitby Studio. Read more View the full article

Japanese firm ONdesign have completed a wooden house in Fujisawa where two sliced halves are connected by a shared living area. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Oklahoma artist Rachel Hayes stitched together colourful fabrics to create abstract representations of natural landscapes that hang in a Los Angeles gallery. Read more View the full article

London studio Farshid Moussavi Architecture has won a competition to design a housing complex for the western outskirts of Paris. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Opinion: watching the demolition of her own elementary school, Alexandra Lange reflects on the increasingly generic design of schools, museums and playgrounds that resign children to "places where all they can learn are the tasks we set them." (more...) View the full article

Individuals could cut their greenhouse-gas emissions by replacing meals with algae grown at home using the countertop Spira device by recent design graduate Rob Russell. Read more View the full article

Mexican studio Agent has designed a concept for a transparent football that changes colour when it passes over the goal line. (more...) View the full article

From a tiny alcove featuring an oversized skylight to a glass shed that can be assembled in remote locations, this week we've rounded up the most-pinned bedrooms ever to be featured on Dezeen (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2012: today’s edition of our daily TV show from Dezeen Studio at MOST is all about performance. First up Faye Toogood tells us how she’s curing visitors with clay in a soothing pavilion called La Cura, then Sheridan Coakley of London design brand SCP shows us round their stand where one chair is upholstered using traditional methods each day. Our guest journalist is Joseph Grima, editor-in-chief of Domus magazine, who stopped by to tell us about the more reflective mood he senses in Milan this year and the themes of collaboration, open design, crowd-sourcing and hacking that are emerging in exhibits around the city. Finally, there’s some good news about the weathe…

VDF studio profiles: scientific research meets design at Studio ThusThat, a multidisciplinary practice whose work exposes the hidden potential in the material world. Read more View the full article

German airline Lufthansa has overhauled its livery, changing the background of its iconic 100-year-old logo from yellow to blue. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Danish acoustic panel manufacturer Troldtekt is inviting architects and designers to submit projects featuring innovative uses of wood wool panels for the chance to win €5,000 (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

In collaboration with PechaKucha, Virtual Design Festival is broadcasting a live programme of talks from 3:00am UK time featuring speakers in Wuhan, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Orlando and Tokyo. Read more View the full article

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has sculpted marble into a convincingly rippling pool for his Petite Loire installation, created for this year's International Garden Festival (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

German designer Lukas Wegwerth discusses his construction framework Three+One and how the coronavirus pandemic prompted its evolution in this interview for our VDF x Alcova collaboration. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio Lipton Plant has turned a small space at the side of a Victorian house in north London into the glazed entrance for a basement extension focused around an oak staircase (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: British graphic designer Peter Saville has tonight been named winner of this year's London Design Medal, and has declared: "Manchester is now the capital of the UK". (more...) View the full article

New York firm Studio Zung has reinterpreted the traditional wooden barns of Long Island to design this house in one the high-end seaside communities of the Hamptons (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Exposed concrete is paired with white furnishings in this two-level Kyoto property that Japanese studio UME Architects has converted into a photographer's home and atelier (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The Chart art and design fair in Copenhagen featured a range of designers creating furniture and homeware as if they were sculptures. Dezeen editor-at-large Amy Frearson picks out 10 of the most impressive. Read more

French duo Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec have made a chair for Finnish furniture brand Artek from a metal frame interlaced with a single length of marine rope that forms its back and armrests. Read more View the full article

Brooklyn studio SO-IL has stretched a thin layer of white film over the facade of the Storefront gallery in New York, giving the building a vacuum-packed appearance (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article