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Fifteen years after Miuccia Prada commissioned Herzog & de Meuron to design Prada's Tokyo flagship, the Swiss architecture studio has completed an "understated" box-like shop for her brand Miu Miu across the street (+ slideshow). (more…)

Henning Larsen Architects aimed to set a benchmark for green design with this university building in Kolding, Denmark, featuring a climate-responsive kinetic facade and a triangular form (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: a capsule exhibition within the Biennial's main show focuses on the future of Chicago, with proposals including a peninsula on the Chicago River and a landscape of sunken spaces. (more…) View the full article

San Francisco company Cobalt has introduced a line of small planes targeted at design-minded luxury consumers. (more…) View the full article

The developers of a biodegradable urn that turns the ashes of a dead person into a tree have designed an incubator to aid the growth process (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2016: American designer and architect David Rockwell has created a collection of furniture for Stellar Works, one of a host of Chinese brands due to exhibit during Milan design week (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen: Apple's Jonathan Ive (pictured) accused contemporary designers of losing interest in how things are made this week, while the United Arab Emirates revealed plans for a manmade mountain in an attempt to increase the country's rainfall. (more…) View the full article

Canadian studio MU Architecture has completed a white-painted holiday home in rural Quebec that is composed of two stacked volumes that cling to the steep terrain (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Fraher Architects has added a simple extension with a sloping glass roof to an early 19th-century house in London, creating a bright new dining area that opens onto a garden patio (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

New York designer Nikolas Bentel has developed a range of patterned shirts that change colour in response to air pollution or radioactivity (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

The USA's National Park Service celebrates its centenary this week. We've picked out eight of the best visitors centres and amenities designed as part of its Mission 66 project, which took place 50 years ago (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A giant inflatable environment by Spanish architects DOSIS is to be blown up in an east London park to host a day of piñata making and film screenings (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Chinese automaker Geely has launched a new car brand with sharable locks and an open platform designed to make its vehicles "the most connected in the world". Read more View the full article

The inaugural Dezeen Hot List has revealed that that biggest names in fashion – as far as Dezeen readers are concerned – are Chanel, COS and Dior. Read more View the full article

Start-up bicycle brand Ono Cycle has released a set of wall mounts that save space by storing and displaying bikes. Read more View the full article

Concrete surfaces, hand-painted teal tiles and brass details all feature in this Melbourne cafe, designed by local studio Biasol to pay tribute to the Greek delicatessens that could be found in the city in the 1950s. Read more View the full article

Australian design studio Porcelain Bear created minimalist interpretations of circus performers for its Acrobat lighting collection. Read more View the full article

Beijing architecture firm People's Industrial Design Office has designed a mobile farm that lets the community share responsibility for crops' wellbeing. Read more View the full article

Norwegian designers will present a range of new products, sculptural craftwork and iconic designs during this year's Milan design week. Read more View the full article

A near-complete bullet-shaped skyscraper by Kohn Pedersen Fox in Shenzhen generated a debate between readers over phallic architecture in this week's comments update. Read more View the full article

Tod Williams and Billie Tsien's major extension and renovation of postmodern architect Charles Moore's Hood Museum of Art, in New Hampshire, will involve slotting in a pale brick building and covering a central courtyard. Read more View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers are critical of Zaha Hadid Architects' recently revealed designs for a housing development. Read more View the full article

Chile-based designer Margarita Talep has created a sustainable, biodegradable alternative to single-use packaging, using raw material extracted from algae. Read more

Curving brass partitions and vaulted stone ceilings both feature inside this Japanese beauty store in Paris, designed by local architecture firm Archiee. Read more

IKEA's innovation lab Space10 has traded in the "chaotic" open-plan design of its head office in Copenhagen for a more flexible workspace divided with mobile partitions, by local studio Spacon & X. Read more