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Apple's glass Fifth Avenue store in New York City has reopened to the public following a renovation by Foster + Partners that added a spiral staircase, skylights and public plaza. Read more

Architecture practice Studionomad has built a block of five apartments in Bangkok with trees growing through the louvres of its facade. Read more

Rain would repair rather than damage roads if they were made of the tyre-based pavement invented by Israel Antonio Briseño Carmona, a Mexican student and winner of the nation's James Dyson Award. Read more View the full article

Tesla founder Elon Musk has unveiled the Cybertruck, a bulletproof electric vehicle clad in the same kind of steel being used to make SpaceX's Starship space craft. Read more View the full article

Architecture firm Wolfgang Tschapeller has renovated a library at Cornell University and added suspended shelving, which prompted criticisms about the potential for upskirting when it opened in earlier this year. Read more View the full article

New York City officials are pushing to legalise the use of drones for facade inspections after an architect was killed by falling debris from a building in the city. Read more View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers are divided over China's decision to rapidly build a hospital for the treatment of patients with suspected coronavirus. Read more View the full article

Dutch designer Richard Hutten and CEO of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation Andrew Morlet discuss the circular economy at Dezeen Day, about how designs can harness natural resources instead of jeopardising them. Read more View the full article

Amsterdam-based eyewear company Ace & Tate's shop in Antwerp has interiors clad with terrazzo made with colourful chips of recycled plastic sourced locally by Dutch startup Plasticiet. Read more View the full article

Japanese designer and sound artist Yuri Suzuki has created a machine that can be used to make and play records. Read more View the full article

In the third part of Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with Zoomed In festival, we are streaming a discussion on architectural photography in the media with Anthony Coleman, Edmund Sumner, James Brittain and Robert Torday. The talk will be live-streamed at 5pm UK time. View the full article

Design studio Space Popular will speak to Dezeen in a live Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio RicharDavidArchitekti has built a greenhouse on top of a single-storey family home within an orchard in the town of Chlum, Czech Republic. Read more View the full article

An angular roof spans across this white house designed by architecture firm Studio Saxe in a remote part of Costa Rica. Read more View the full article

Photographer Filippo Poli has given us images of a new sports centre in Barcelona by Catalan architects Batlle i Roig. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some photos from an exhibition of work by over 70 designers including Studio Job, Nacho Carbonell and BCXSY, on show at 21_21 Design Sight in Tokyo, directed by Li Edelkoort. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

At DMY Berlin this week designer Daniel Lorch will present a chair made by splitting a steel tube and peeling back the legs. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

University of Westminster architecture student James Gardener has designed this conceptual bridge for the River Thames, London, made from a series of floating elements that would be linked together and free to move with the tide. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Foreign Office Architects have completed the new tile-covered campus for Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication, located on the Greenwich Peninsula in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Our pop-up design store The Temporium has opened in London! (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London studios Anomaly and Unit 9 are collating patterns donated by artists, which users can print out with instructions to make origami cranes in exchange for a donation to disaster relief in Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: Rotterdam designer Diederik Schneemann presents a series of vases and lamps made from recycled flip-flops found washed up on Kenyan beaches at Ventura Lambrate in Milan this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Korean designers Joon&Jung have hand-crafted this set of speakers by strapping punctuated ceramic cubes onto a stack of twigs. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This farmhouse in Hokkaido by Japanese studio Hiroshi Horio Architects has a pointed observation deck where residents dry herbs. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Four courtyards are cut into the asymmetrical white roof of this Portuguese house by ARX Portugal Arquitectos and Portuguese architect Stefano Riva. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article