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Virgin has unveiled plans to build a fully electric, high-speed train that would connect Southern California to Las Vegas by 2023. Read more View the full article

UK charity Art Fund has released photos of filmmaker Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage in Dungeness, England as part of its fundraising campaign to prevent the renowned house and garden from being sold. Read more View the full article

Artist Max Siedentopf caused outrage with his depiction of people wearing various everyday items as coronavirus masks. Here are five of the artist's provocative works. Read more View the full article

The remnants of a shopping centre evoke concrete follies at Tainan Spring, a sunken park and public pool by MVRDV in southern Taiwan. Read more View the full article

Australian studio Heliograf's Light Soy lamps are designed to emulate the fish-shaped soy sauce bottles found in sushi shops, as a comment on the damaging effects of single-use plastic. Read more View the full article

French architect Elisabeth Polzella has built a covered market from structural stone and timber for the town of Lamure-Sur-Azergues in the Rhône region of central France. Read more View the full article

MARGstudio, Alessio Casciano Design and Angeletti Ruzza have designed a colourful, inflatable face shield that could be used to allow people to socialise following the peak of the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

To mark World Oceans Day, VDF collaborates with environmental organisation Parley for the Oceans to host a live Screentime conversation with its founder Cyrill Gutsch. Watch the broadcast from 6pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Italian architects Studio Archea have sent us these images of their pavilion in the Urban Best Practice Area at the Shanghai Expo 2010. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Barcelona company Dream and Fly have sent us the latest renders of their miniature hotel rooms proposed for airports and train stations. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Belgian studio Room & Room opened this apartment in a listed Bruges building to the attic above, then opened the attic to the sky. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: online architecture and design platform Architonic present impressions from this week’s Stockholm Furniture Fair on their Facebook Page. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Shay Alkalay of Raw Edges is next up in our series of movies from Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents filmed at imm cologne earlier this year. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen is media partner with Clerkenwell Design Week, which takes place in London next week, and we’ll be presenting a pop-up Dezeen Watch Store at the Farmiloe Building on St John Street from 24 to 26 May. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New Designers 2011: Kingston University graduate Oscar Medley-Whitfield presented these benches that rely on each other for support at New Designers in London last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: here’s an animation of the competition-winning proposals by New York architects Work AC to create a cultural hub on a St Petersburg island that has been closed to the public for over 300 years. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Russian architects Arch Group have completed the first of their tiny hotel rooms for napping at airports. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British designers BarberOsgerby present seven sculptural pieces based on boats, planes and satellites at Haunch of Venison gallery in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Hotel brand Yotel have opened a flagship branch in New York’s Times Square, where visitors check in at computerised kiosks while their luggage is stored or retrieved by a giant robotic arm. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Next up we take a look at the favourite five stories from October. Topping the list here is Passing Cloud, proposing an enormous inflatable cloud as a form of transport. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

News: Foster + Partners has been given the title "most admired architect" for the ninth consecutive year, in a global survey of architecture firms. (more…) View the full article

This week Herzog & de Meuron were in London for the opening of their Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Thomas Heatherwick opened his solo show at the V&A and BarberOsgerby’s Olympic torch has been making its way around the UK. We’ve got interviews with all three for you. (more…) View the full article

Designer Gerry Judah has created this white knotted sculpture of a race track for car brand Lotus at Goodwood Festival of Speed, which took place in West Sussex last weekend. (more…) View the full article

The Changing Room is a space at Dezeen Super Store that will be given over to a different designer each week to showcase their products or artwork, and this week we are featuring Dalston designer Naomi Paul‘s latest crochet pendant lamps. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow feature: Dezeen is at Maison & Objet in Paris this week and we have selected our top ten products exhibited at the design and interiors trade fair, including shelves that look like sheets of paper caught in the wind by Japanese studio YOY (image 1). (more…) View the full article