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Dezeen discusses the future of craft in this talk with lift manufacturer Aritco, designers Alexander Lervik and Emma Blanche, and interior architect Marco Checchi. Watch the talk from Stockholm Design Week live from 5:30pm UK time. Read more

The founders of New York magazine Sight Unseen have used a basic, web-based design software tool to produce a pair of two-tone rugs for Swedish brand Kasthall, previewing at Stockholm Design Week. Read more

Bolivian architect Freddy Mamani is aiming to imbue culture, colour and personality into the "monochrome" city of El Alto, through buildings based on ancient local architecture and craft. Read more

A residence that has belonged to the family of designer Emma Marga Blanche, co-founder of Fårg & Blanche, for four generations provides a striking backdrop for the studio's Stockholm Design Week exhibition. Read more

Dezeen promotion: South African graphic designer Daniel Ting Chong has collaborated with artificial intelligence to create a colourful visual identity for Design Indaba. Read more

A double-height living room stands at the centre of this brutalist house, completed by architectural studio Patisandhika and designer Dan Mitchell in Bali, Indonesia. Read more

US company Pliant Energy Systems has turned one of its green energy technologies into a propulsion system for a swimming robot capable of exploring land and sea. Read more

David Adjaye says museums, monuments and memorials should be sites of resistance against those "propagating fictions" about climate change, civil rights or the holocaust. Read more

Construction has begun on Alárò City, which is being masterplanned by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, as an extension to Lagos in southwest Nigeria. Read more

A stainless steel wall with rose-tinted windows sits at the centre of the Wellsky store in Hangzhou, China, designed by Xian Xiang Design. Read more

We've selected five of the best positions on Dezeen Jobs based in the US, including vacancies with tech giant Apple and co-working company WeWork. Read more

Interior designer Kelly Hoppen has created a life-size statue of Disney's iconic cartoon character Mickey Mouse, which she has adapted to suit a "grown-up" audience. Read more

A lantern-like light box and inverted pyramidal roof draws light into the interior of the Kloof 119A home, dramatically sited overlooking Table Mountain and Cape Town. Read more

Canadian studio Revery Architecture has completed an opera house in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District, which is covered in curved aluminium slats arranged in wavy patterns. Read more

New York's Museum of Modern Art will close over the summer in order to complete its Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed overhaul, then fully re-open four months later. Read more

American studio Klopf Architecture has overhauled a low-slung, plywood-clad home in northern California, which was built by visionary developer Joseph Eichler following the second world war. Read more

Dezeen Awards 2019 has launched at a party in Stockholm hosted with event partner Vestre, which was attended by leading architects and designers including Michael Young and Richard Hutten. Read more

Our new captioned movie shows the 45-metre tall spiralling tower, designed by EFFEKT, as construction nears completion atop the forest canopy of Haslev, Denmark. Read more

The third Chicago Architecture Biennial will forego a single theme in order push the architecture profession to "think more meaningfully" about a host of contemporary issues, according to artistic director Yesomi Umolu. Read more

Matali Crasset speaks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs speaks to designer about her work and design theory at Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair 2019. Watch the talk live from 3.00pm UK time. Read more

Hem is presenting a rug by French designer Pauline Deltour during Stockholm Design Week, made from rope using traditional weaving techniques. Read more

Sports brand Puma has unveiled its Puma Fi trainers, which have laces that can be tightened at the swipe of a finger. Read more

Hanson Robotics has created a "little sister" version of AI robot Sophia, intended to help young girls learn to code and gain an understanding of STEM subjects. Read more

Chinese designers Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu discuss the disappearing village cultures of China in their lecture at Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair 2019. Watch the livestream here from 12.00pm UK time. Read more

Swedish design collective Malmö Upcycling Service says "you can't sit with us" unless you rethink the sustainability of your production methods, in an exhibition of furniture made from recycled materials. Read more