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These photographs by Luc Boegly and Sergio Grazia show the complex engineering of the vast dome that is suspended over the galleries of Jean Nouvel's Louvre Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Read more View the full article

Gencork is a Portugese brand that has created an innovative method of turning cork into threads that can be used to produce furniture. Read more

French designer Sophie Dries has created a collection of ceramic and metal vases with scored exteriors that retain the marks of production. (more…) View the full article

Designer Tom Dixon describes how a motorcycle crash forced him to abandon a career as a bass guitarist in the latest episode of Dezeen's Face to Face podcast. Read more View the full article

FreelandBuck has installed a pavilion in a Palo Alto plaza comprising triangular panels imprinted with images of the public enjoying the same site on a day last year. Read more View the full article

Pieces of rubbish are displayed as artefacts in the Museum of Modern Waste, which Design School Kolding is exhibiting as part of VDF x Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has designed a light blue flag with a white footprint, to raise awareness about the importance of human rights. Read more

For our latest competition we're offering readers the chance to win one of three copies of Where Architects Sleep, The Most Stylish Hotels in the World. Read more View the full article

To celebrate the long weekend, Dezeen Watch Store is giving readers 10 per cent off any watch on the website. Read more View the full article

Milan 2013: German designer Stefan Diez unveiled a trio of chairs for German furniture brand e15 at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile last week. (more...) View the full article

This house near Madrid was designed by local firm Bojaus Arquitectura as a simple white cuboid punctuated by openings that create windows, porches and patios (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Photographer Manuel Alvarez Diestro has sent us these photographs documenting the vernacular street-lighting of different cities around the world. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house in Onomichi, Japan, by Suppose Design Office is framed by five parallel walls, which have been placed at an angle to frame views of an adjacent waterway (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Furniture made of recycled plastic and fabrics made from plastic bags are among winners of the Ro Plastic Prize competition. Read more

Zaha Hadid Architects has designed a swirling complex of apartments, offices and leisure facilities on the abandoned site of an old textile factory in Belgrade, Serbia (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The organisation behind New York's High Line elevated park has created an online forum that offers advice for those embarking on similar infrastructure reuse projects. Read 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

A tiny mobile performance venue based on sixteenth century market stalls and Roman fortune tellers will be appearing around the Lower Marsh area of Waterloo in London this summer. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: our latest Dezeen Watch Store pop-up is at Blickfang design fair at Kongresshaus Zürich in Zürich, Switzerland this weekend. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design graduate Joe Buttigieg has created a tubular steel chair that can be easily stored over the surface of a desk or table. (more...) View the full article

Flooring made from concrete, wood and two types of tile helps to define the various rooms inside this Paris apartment, which has been renovated by local architecture studio Septembre (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

John Robertson Architects has renovated Bracken House, in London, for the Financial Times' return, carefully updating its Hopkins Architects-designed "Gothic high-tech" atrium. Read more

Industrial outdoor lamps hang over the tables of a restaurant in Tel Aviv by Israeli architects Baranowitz Kronenberg. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Offices for a water-management company designed by Dutch architect Wiel Arets are nearing completion in Maasbracht, the Netherlands. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: discarded bottles sourced from hotels, restaurants, homes and foreign embassies are being filled with sand and used as bricks to create curved-walled houses in a Nigerian village – BBC The bottles are bound together with mud resulting in durable walls that are sustainable, cost-effective and provide insulation from the sun’s heat. The resulting buildings are also bullet-proof – a useful benefit in an area plagued by violence. An estate of 25 houses is currently being built with plans for a school to follow. See our previous story on a house made from sand bags in South Africa. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img…