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News: Danish architecture studio EFFEKT has triumphed in a competition to design a street sports facility in and around a crumbling train engine roundhouse in Esbjerg, south-west Denmark (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architecture studio EFFEKT has released plans for a 600-metre-long treetop walkway connected to a spiralling observation tower with 360-degree views over the forest canopy of southern Denmark. Read more View the full article

Danish studio EFFEKT has completed a brick-clad apartment block in Copenhagen with a tapered profile that reflects the roof shape of an adjacent church. Read more View the full article

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has created a series of objects designed to monitor electricity consumption in the home for energy company Schneider Electric. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

University of Applied Arts Vienna graduate Ege Kökel has envisioned what life would be like if bio-technologies were used to bring back dodos, as a comment on the impact of de-extinction research. Read more View the full article

A sofa with "puzzle piece" cushions and a wooden table with mismatched legs are among Egg Collective's new works fillings its cosy showroom in New York City. Read more

New York design studio Egg Collective has opened a new showroom in Lower Manhattan's Tribeca neighbourhood, where its furniture is displayed in rooms laid out like a home. Read more

New York studio Egg Collective has followed up its Designing Women exhibition last year with a second edition for this year's NYCxDesign festival, featuring furniture and homeware pieces from a new roster of female designers. Read more View the full article

Maison&Objet 2013: Italian designer Valentina Carretta made these hanging lamps for Italian brand Seletti with coarse paper like the kind used in egg boxes. (more...) View the full article

Egg Vessels are a series of porcelain ceramics, which Mari JJ Design is launching during the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

Designers Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel have created Capsula Mundi, an egg-shaped pod for the deceased that offers an alternative to traditional burial methods. Read more

Product news: new Neff fridges will come with this golf-ball-textured extendable egg tray by German design studio WerterlOberfell. (more…) View the full article

News: the Egyptian government has revealed plans to construct a 200-metre-high skyscraper modelled on the country's most famous architectural structures. (more…) View the full article

A group of students from the Royal College of Art in London has developed headsets that allow the wearer to adjust their sight and hearing in the same way they'd control the settings on a TV or radio (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

News: work is nearing completion on an upgraded first floor for the Eiffel Tower that will offer visitors the opportunity to walk over a glass floor or host events and conferences 57 metres above the ground. (more...) View the full article

Since the fire devastated Notre-Dame Cathedral and the French prime minister announced a competition to replace its spire, a flurry of designers have offered alternative proposals. Here are eight of the best. Read more

Art deco architecture and design is making a major comeback. We've rounded up eight projects celebrating the style, from renovations of historic structures to geometric new-builds. Read more

Bathrooms can easily be dismissed as the dullest room of the house, but there's plenty of opportunity to play around with material and colour. Interiors reporter Natasha Levy has selected eight striking bathing spaces to learn from. Read more View the full article

Brooklyn townhouses provide a blank canvas for creative renovations. US reporter Bridget Cogley selects eight diverse designs that include boldly coloured cabinets, pathways for cats and a huge slanted window. Read more

Here's a look at eight of the buildings that will make up the BIG-masterplanned EuropaCity district, set to be built on the outskirts of Paris. Read more View the full article

Safdie Architects' soon-to-open Jewel Chang Airport contains the world's tallest indoor waterfall, but it's not the first building to incorporate an oversized water feature. Here are eight buildings that include waterfalls. Read more

It's Halloween, a time when many cultures honour the dead. To mark the occasion, we take a tour through some of the most interesting final resting places dreamed up by designers, including a biodegradable urn that turns a deceased loved one into a tree and colourful zip-up coffins designed to make death less depressing. Read more View the full article

The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp hosts one of the world's best prestigious fashion design courses. Here's a look at all eight collections produced by this year's masters graduates, featuring latex, animal prints and dazzle camouflage. Read more View the full article

Footwear brands are competing to produce ever more sustainable sneakers. Here are eight brands leading the pack with trainers made from algae and pineapple husks to bioplastics and recycled waste. Read more

A cluster of eight interconnected concrete volumes make up this Martha's Vineyard residence, which is designed to be moved in the event of site erosion (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article