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Design collective Medium has completed 8-23-VI, a pavilion with moving walls that is a new public place for residents of Gldani neighbourhood. Read more View the full article

Movie: British designer Ross Lovegrove talks to Dezeen about the tree-like solar-powered street lights he brought to St John’s Square for Clerkenwell Design Week. (more…) View the full article

Contact lens cases, vegetable vases and pill packets are some glass objects by Lund University students in Sweden to explore the material's potential within a more circular economic system. Read more View the full article

Narrow indentations create the impression of brushstrokes across the grey plaster walls of a university chemistry facility in Germany, designed by Cologne firm Kister Scheithauer Gross (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Seven house-shaped blocks are sheltered beneath the large asymmetric roof of this house in Japan by Y+M Design Office (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New York studio GRT Architects has uncovered and repaired the decorative facade of a tower in the city's Garment District, during the renovation of its entrance inside and out. Read more View the full article

A zigzag elevated walkway and a pavilion wrapped in bamboo by West-Line Studio in the province of Guizhou, China, has been revealed in new photos. Read more

Dezeen promotion: ahead of the launch of the V&A's new design museum in Dundee next year, the organisation has created an online platform to showcase the work of emerging Scottish designers. Read more View the full article

Design studio i29 referenced the rich past of Amsterdam's Felix Meritis building for the overhaul of its interiors, which now feature vivid splashes of colour. Read more View the full article

These photographs offer a look inside Oscar Niemeyer's recently reopened Hotel Nacional in Rio de Janeiro, which features interiors by Brazilian firm Debora Aguiar Arquitectos and US practice Studio VOA. Read more View the full article

Timber batons create geometric patterns across the exterior of this houseboat in Amsterdam by architects Framework Architecten and Studio Prototype. (more…) View the full article

Arched openings in the sandstone facade of this Dubai mosque by Ibda Design lead worshippers into a bright marble courtyard with a textured minaret (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed a new movie showing the studio's proposal for a sand-dune-inspired building that will be the new headquarters for Middle Eastern environmental company Bee'ah (+ movie). (more…)

Designer Roger Arquer explains why emotion is the guiding force behind his practice, which includes lampshades that work with condensation and experimental fish tanks, in this next movie filmed at our Designed in Hackney Day. (more...) View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers are critical of Zaha Hadid Architects' recently revealed designs for a housing development. Read more View the full article

This desk by Dutch designer Mieke Meijer is the first in a range of furniture based on images by German artists Bernd and Hilla Becher, known for their series of photographs that documented types of industrial structures like pylons, gas tanks and water towers. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German architectural engineer Gregory Quinn has developed SheltAir, domed bio-containment pods erected using inflatable cushions that could help coronavirus patients isolate. Read more View the full article

London studio De Matos Ryan has refurbished a historic theatre in York, England, to create more space in both the 18th-century building and its 1960s extension by Modernist architect Patrick Gwynne (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2016: it's day one of Milan design week, the world's biggest and most important design fair, and over 1,000 images from around the city have already been posted to our #milanogram2016 hashtag on Instagram. Click through to see a selection of the best photographs. (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

Plans to cut a "wound" into a Norwegian peninsula in memory of the victims of terrorist Anders Breivik have been abandoned following years of opposition from locals. Read more View the full article

Next up in our high-tech architecture series we look at the Centre Pompidou in Paris by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, the "inside-out" landmark that drew global attention to the movement. Read more View the full article

German designer Verena Hennig has unveiled her first furniture line, which comprises seating made from rotatable aluminium batons (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Three white-brick chimneys rise from this house in Virginia, which US studio T W Ryan Architecture designed to reference a modernist Mies van der Rohe house and a nearby plantation. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: a wabi-sabi-inspired hotel in a remote Chinese village and a luxury yacht that sails the seas of Indonesia are among the projects to be celebrated in the 2020 edition of the AHEAD Asia awards. Read more View the full article