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With health workers in many parts of the world facing shortages of personal protective equipment as they treat coronavirus patients, architects, designers, institutions and brands around the world are making face shields. Read more View the full article

British architects Marks Barfield have designed a research centre for the Amazon Jungle with a bulging bamboo observation tower and over six miles of treetop bridges. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A "building block castle" by Camille Walala and an undulating tapestry by Ross Lovegrove are among the 400 events prepped to take place during this year's London Design Festival. Read more View the full article

Canadian architecture firm RDHA has added glazed volumes to an old limestone post office in Cambridge, Ontario as part of its transformation into a community centre with makerspaces. Read more View the full article

These wooden storage boxes by Japanese designers Torafu Architects stack up to make little trolleys (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Prague studio Ov-a Architekti has built a translucent house and restored a group of 19th-century timber buildings for the office of glass company Lasvit in Nový Bor, Czech Republic. Read more View the full article

What would you say if you won a Dezeen award? In this movie published to mark the launch of Dezeen Awards 2019, last year's winners sum up their work in a single word. Read more

Dallas artist Jammie Holmes has flown banners showing the last words of George Floyd, who was killed in police custody last week, above American cities. Read more View the full article

London Design Festival 2016: architect David Adjaye has won this year's London Design Medal, while industrial designer Kenneth Grange has been given an award for lifetime achievement. (more…) View the full article

Plants will be used to greenwash developments until landscape architecture is given a bigger role in urban planning says French landscape architect Céline Baumann. Read more View the full article

Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron and Canadian studio Quadrangle have unveiled plans for a super-skinny skyscraper in Toronto that will rise 324 metres. Read more View the full article

News: a swimming pool, a theatre and a restaurant are among designs by French studios Oxo Architectes and Laisné Associés to renovate abandoned Metro stations in Paris (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: architect Alex de Rijke of dRMM talks to Dezeen about his practice's Escher-inspired installation of staircases in this movie filmed outside Tate Modern in London. (more...) View the full article

Eight huge wings resembling a cluster of ducks’ feet form the roof of this theatre in Wuxi, to the west of Shanghai, designed by Finnish practice PES-Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Brain disease research could be sped up using a smartphone-controlled "plug-and-play" neural implant invented by scientists from the USA and South Korea. Read more View the full article

Cast Iron Design has created a guide book for the city of Boulder, Colorado on recycled paper with ink made from algae. Read more View the full article

London designer Paul Cocksedge recently completed another sculpture resembling pieces of paper caught in the breeze, although this time the leaves glow like a swarm of fireflies. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A German construction project has saved an estimated 136 tonnes of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere by using incorporating air pockets made of recycled plastic within its concrete slabs. Read more View the full article

Business news: uncertainty over whether the UK will vote to leave the European Union is affecting creative business as customers postpone decisions, according to designer Tom Dixon. (more…) View the full article

This system of illustrated characters and animations was developed to help people learn to read Chinese, and is one of the 76 projects nominated for Designs of the Year 2014 (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A collection of 1950s and 1960s products by designers including Dieter Rams, Arne Jacobsen and Dietrich Lubs for German electricals brand Braun are on display at the new Paul Smith store in London (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch designer Dave Hakkens has devised a wind-powered oil press for making nuts and seeds into homemade oils (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Lindsey Adelman, Apparatus and Rich Brilliant Willing are among 40 design studios and makers in New York City that have put their work in an online charity auction, where all proceeds will support the city's battle during the coronavirus crisis. Read more View the full article

Here are the first photographs of Jean Nouvel's Tour Horizons, an office block in Paris that looks like a pile of three separate buildings (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The last of the Ziiiro watches to be featured in the Dezeen Watch Store summer sale is the Mercury watch. Rings of rotating comets display the time, like the Gravity watch. You can now buy Mercury in black and magenta for only £124 (UK and EU) or £103.33 (rest of the world). Buy now » Don’t forget you can get 10% off any product at Dezeen Super Store at 38 Monmouth Street, London WC2 with this flyer. View the full article