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Aaron Betsky examines the emergence and popularity of Jenga-style towers and pixelated buildings around the world, and hopes that future examples don't tumble into mediocrity. Read more View the full article

Product news: tapered legs support the curved seat and backrest of this wooden chair by Bangkok designers Slap Studio for Thai design brand Curio. (more…) View the full article

Comments update: readers were almost unanimous in their praise for a graduate designer's idea to create a colostomy bag for "intimate moments", as they contemplated the merits of choosing the right projects to address with design. (more…) View the full article

The third Chicago Architecture Biennial draws attention to the biggest issues facing today's society, but falls short of exhibiting architecture that is trying to solve them, says Mimi Zeiger. Read more

Herman Miller is exhibiting five seating collections for work environments at VDF products fair, including the casual Striad lounge chair by Markus Jehs and Jürgen Laub that is modelled on ski boots. Read more View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers are struggling to understand how the Hunters Point library in Long Island City passed building approval with many areas not accessible to people with disabilities. Read more View the full article

Los Angeles studio Lawson-Fenning has outfitted an apartment in RM Schindler's 1930s residential building Manola Court with furniture influenced by California modernism. Read more View the full article

Mexico City design studio Davidpompa has added a slender floor lamp and a small table lamp to its Origo collection made from volcanic rock, which it showed in a shipper container. Read more

Breaking news: French president Emmanuel Macron has promised to rebuild Notre-Dame Cathedral after the fire, and millions of euros have already been pledged in support. Read more

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

Apple's new central London store by Foster + Partners features in this week's edition of Dezeen Mail, along with a smart crib for exhausted parents and Juergen Teller riding naked on a donkey. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail › View the full article

Plazma Architecture Studio has completed a house in Vilnius, Lithuania, clad in timber with deep-set glazing and a display garage for showcasing a car. Read more View the full article

Architecture practice Gartnerfuglen and architect Mariana de Delás have hidden a hut next to a secluded lake in Norway with a layer of birch branches. Read more View the full article

The UK government's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission, has recommended urban orchards and incentivising developers by fast-tracking planning for attractive housing. Read more View the full article

London-based architecture studio Coffey Architects has completed 34 retirement flats in Woking, UK, with a warehouse-like silhouette that reflects the site's industrial heritage. Read more View the full article

Visitors to a former church in the Italian city of Spoleto will encounter a mirror that uses artificial intelligence and facial recognition to build an otherworldly image of themselves. Read more

VDF products fair: designer Philippe Malouin has developed a collection of monochrome rugs for Italian brand CC-Tapis that replicates the irregularities of lines made by crayons. Read more View the full article

This week a group of urban climbers revealed that they’d secretly scaled the 309-metre-high exterior of Renzo Piano’s London skyscraper the Shard and J. Mayer H. completed a crooked concrete police station that one reader thought was actually worth getting arrested for. Here at Dezeen we’ve been preparing for our relocation to Milan next week, where we’ll be filming a daily TV show from Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox, filled with news from new design epicentre MOST, interviews with designers and journalists, plus coverage of events elsewhere in the city. We’ve already published a few of our favourite projects that will appear at the fair, which include a table that’s al…

British architecture studio Foster + Partners has launched its latest light produced in collaboration with Italian manufacturer Lumina: a tabletop design that emits a gentle glow. (more…) View the full article

Sliding windows make up the facade of this apartment building in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, allowing residents to expose their living spaces to the elements (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Italian ceramic tile manufacturer Ariostea has released a collection of tiles that mimic the iridescent quality of precious onyx stones. Read more

New photographs reveal that the MVRDV-designed Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen is nearing completion in Rotterdam. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the next series of London Pecha Kucha talks kicks off at the Design Museum on Tuesday 28 February, with speakers including illustrator and artist Noma Bar, design historian Patrick O’Shea and architectural photographer Jim Stephenson. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

News: Zaha Hadid has filed a law suit against the New York Review of Books and architecture critic Martin Filler after allegedly defamatory comments about her attitude to migrant workers were published as part of a book review. (more...) View the full article

Gensler has added a black metal volume to an airport servicing ski resorts in Vail, Colorado, containing lounges with fireplaces and pale wood ceilings. Read more View the full article