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Eco-Visionaries at London's Royal Academy of Arts looks at how art and architecture can help us respond to environmental change, and is the latest in a line of recent large-scale exhibitions on the theme. Read more View the full article

OMA has won a competition to design a new campus for the École Centrale school of engineering in France by proposing a ‘superblock’ of separate buildings within a single gridded structure (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: École des Ponts ParisTech has launched Build'in, a platform that reflects the university's move towards digital technologies, as the construction industry changes. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: École des Ponts ParisTech is now accepting applications for its Design by Data masters programme, where architects, designers and engineers push the bounds of new technologies. Read more

The cylindrical shape of this university building on the outskirts of Dutch town Wageningen is designed by BDG Architects to optimise the usable floor space inside and reduce energy loss through the facade (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: wellness entrepreneur Nell Waters is attempting to raise £146,000 on crowdfunding website Kickstarter to build a prototypal ecological urban bathhouse from shipping containers in San Francisco. (more...) View the full article

This cabin covered in hand-painted patterns by Hackney architects Studio Weave provides a colourful art studio, bird-watching hide and rain shelter in a woodland park in Kent, England (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: this year's Golden Lion-winning Spanish Pavilion focuses on unfinished structures left in the wake of the 2008 financial crash and architects who are developing a "radical" approach to rebuilding Spain (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Manufacturing company Ecopixel is showcasing its contribution towards a circular economy as part of the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

Dutch designer Thom Bindels has developed Ecosystem Kickstarter, a honeycomb-shaped cardboard frame that can help small-scale farmers grow crops in degraded soil. Read more View the full article

Trinidadian architect Tara Keens Douglas presented a series of carnival costumes made from folded paper and twisted rope as part of her masters thesis. (more…) View the full article

News: Dutch designer Ed Annink, known for his work forging links between design and government in Europe, has died aged 55. (more…) View the full article

Tokyo 2010: designer Emmanuelle Moureaux presented eda, a prototype lightweight, modular product that combines to create cloud-like forms, at DesignTide Tokyo 2010 earlier this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cuban-American artist Edel Rodriguez has redesigned the front cover of the tell-all book documenting Donald Trump's first nine months as US president, with an illustration of his face as flames. Read more View the full article

A chunky bay window protrudes from this timber-clad addition to a house in Ontario by Canadian studio The Practice of Everyday Design (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Photographer Julien Lanoo has sent us these pictures of an archives centre designed by Paris studio LAN Architecture, which has an exterior of stainless steel studs set into earth-coloured concrete to reflect the colour and texture of the surrounding French landscape. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Edgar Papazian of New York studio Doon Architecture has revamped an ageing A-frame home into a frugal family dwelling, in an area of Long Island known for its "outrageous housing market" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

San Francisco architects IwamotoScott have completed a design study for a tower (above, right) straddling a street in Lower Manhattan, New York City. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Michigan architects Synecdoche stacked up timber offcuts to construct this pavilion in Atlanta, Georgia, held together by gravity alone. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An angular platform protruding from the 100th floor of Kohn Pedersen Fox's Hudson Yards skyscraper is the "highest outdoor sky deck" in the western hemisphere. Read more View the full article

Architecture studios Edgley Design and Spaced Out have built and moved into a zinc-clad development in London's Islington, made up of basement offices and a row of terraced houses with a saw-tooth profile. Read more View the full article

This house in south London, arranged around an old pear tree, was designed by British architect Jake Edgley as a home for himself and his family. Read more View the full article

This drone, designed for hard-to-reach disaster areas, will soon be getting an upgrade that allows it to be consumed along with its cargo. Read more View the full article

A group of London-based industrial designers have created an edible water bottle using algae and a technique popularised by El Bulli chef Ferran Adria. (more...) View the full article

American designer Marc Thorpe has created a simple, off-the-grid dwelling in Upstate New York that is meant to exist "in perfect balance with its environment". Read more View the full article