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News: Finnish studio ALA Architects has won the international competition to design a new public library in Helsinki with plans that involve a mass of twisted timber (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

American musician Prince has died suddenly aged 57. By changing his name to a graphic symbol for a period, the artist elevated himself to icon status that would last a lifetime, according to the logo's designer. (more…) View the full article

VDF products fair: the Squar tile collection by Italian designer Giovanni Barbieri features three-dimensional elements to bring a relief-effect to walls. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: UK designers have two more days to take part in a government survey aimed at improving intellectual property laws. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Students from the Collaborative and Industrial Design program at Helsinki's Aalto University have created five new concepts for coffee machines and other household products, aiming to "simplify and clarify" existing models (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

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

The upper storey of this forest house near Ottawa projects out from the landscape, creating a cantilevered living room offering views through the trees towards a nearby lake (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs has outlined its Toronto Tomorrow masterplan to turn a parcel of the city's waterfront into the "neighbourhood of the future". Read more

A warm material palette is used to transport customers from the urban grit of New York City into this cosy bakery designed by local firm GRT Architects. Read more

Dezeen Screen: this bookmark designed by Oscar Lhermitte hovers over the page as you read, poised to dive between the correct pages automatically as you shut the book. Watch the movie » (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Comedy skyscraper stories dominated August, when a Spanish residential tower was reportedly built without a working elevator and a Chinese businessman made himself a home resembling a fake mountain on top of a Beijing housing block (pictured). (more...) View the full article

Another Country's adjustable Work Series furniture is designed to combat perceptions of the office as "cold and clinical". Read more View the full article

A triangular lightwell covered in scale-like shingles extends from the roof of this living room that architect Nuno Melo Sousa has added to a house in Penafiel, Portugal (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Pegboard display walls and a partition made up of maze-like shelving are just some of the clever storage solutions squeezed into the small homes and tiny apartments that feature in this week's Pinterest roundup. Read more View the full article

London-based designer Nir Meiri has created a series of table lamps using mushroom mycelium, as an alternative to synthetic materials. Read more

In light of plans to bring the neoclassical Penn Station and Frank Lloyd Wright's lost pavilions back to life, Aaron Betsky argues that architects should focus on renovating existing buildings rather than replacing new with old, in this Opinion column. Read more View the full article

Interior design will evolve, innovate, adapt and improve in 2020, says Michelle Ogundehin. Her trend report includes provocative collaborations, cork, Ukrainian design and a rejection of digital technology. Read more View the full article

Opinion: in his latest column, Sam Jacob argues that architects "might have to learn from communications agencies, advertising and design" in order to regain the social significance they once enjoyed. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Quentin Blake, the man responsible for illustrating many of author Roald Dahl‘s famous novels, has been announced as the winner of this year’s Prince Philip Designers Prize. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Moxon Architects has restored and converted a listed building and a former police station in Fraserburgh, Scotland, adding a contemporary extension clad in weathering steel. Read more View the full article

Walmart's textureless surfaces are intended to look as cheap as possible. But surely, mulls Aaron Betsky, even a little tactility could improve the stores and other similar spaces without breaking the bank. Read 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

Designer Daniel Svahn's chairs for a town hall in Stockholm are made from upcycled unwanted tabletops that were destined for the dump. Read more View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with furniture brand Vitsoe and designers Heatherwick Studio, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with MAD, Tom Dixon, Universal Design Studio and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Faye Toogood, Martha Schwartz Partners and the V&A, where lighting brand Bocci installed a giant chandelier of colourful glass spheres during LDF 2013 (pictured). Plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Vitra Campus, Michael Anastassiades, MAC Cosmetics, Estee Lauder and more... (more...) View the full article