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LED lights on a plus-shaped installation floating on Manhattan's East River change colour based on the water quality conditions. Read more

Cities that float on water could offer an alternative to destroying the earth's valuable countryside according to architecture studio AT Design Office, who has developed a concept for an ocean metropolis (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

British architecture studio Grimshaw and Dutch manufacturers Concrete Valley are developing Modular Water Dwellings that could be built in places at risk from climate change. Read more View the full article

A floating dairy farm has opened in Rotterdam, showing how food production can become less vulnerable to climate change. Read more

A narrow white wall appears to hover around the perimeter and garden of this house and atelier – the third project on Dezeen this week by Japanese office UID Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

"Float-level" sleeping quarters in this single-family home moored to the shore of Seattle's Lake Union allow residents to go swimming directly from their bedrooms (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This conceptual tower for Taiwan by Romanian firms upgrade.studio, DSBA and Mihai Carciun in the USA would feature observation decks floating up and down each side on helium balloons. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Two new structures have been erected by students amongst the trees of Hooke Park, England – a translucent pyramid suspended from the branches and a wooden burrow that nestles amongst the trunks (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This skateboarding ramp floating over the clear waters of Lake Tahoe was put together in just four days by design-and-build team Jerry Blohm and Jeff King for Californian skater Bob Burnquist (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A suspended steel staircase is completed by a piece of wooden furniture in this renovated Oslo loft by London studio Haptic (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A small town on the Danish island of Bornholm has become another destination for harbour swimming facilities, thanks to a series of new walkways and structures by Swedish firm White Arkitekter (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: German designer Ingo Maurer's table without any legs has gone into production with British brand Established & Sons. (more...) View the full article

Australian designer Jordana Maisie has created a Manhattan boutique for upscale shoe brand Feit that features asymmetrical display areas made of thin sheets of wood (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Estonian interior architecture students designed this floating timber pavilion to provide a shelter, sauna and campfire for visitors to the Soomaa National Park wetlands during flooding (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This temporary pavilion with reflective purple scales that shimmer in the breeze has been installed in Beijing by New York architects SO-IL. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design graduate James Plimmer has created an inhaler for asthmatics that improves posture and technique during use to ensure more medicine reaches the lungs. Read more

Dezeen promotion: Furniture manufacturer Flokk, owner of the Swedish brand RH, has released its most sustainable task chair to date – the RH New Logic, which has been made from recycled aluminium, plastic and steel. Read more

Digital design studio Squint/Opera has reissued a series of speculative visualisations depicting London in 2090 when climate change has left much of the city under water. Read more

This floor lamp by Japanese designer Yasutoshi Mifune leans backwards to cast light at an angle. (more...) View the full article

Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Floor Skrabanja has created a collection of seats with single-piece 3D-knitted upholstery that needs no gluing or stitching, so can easily be deconstructed. Read more View the full article

Designers Big-Game of Lausanne have won the Swiss Federal Design Award with their shelving system comprising aluminium slats on wooden frame. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch architects MVRDV have proposed extending the city of Almere into a lake by building a square-shaped artificial peninsula covered in gardens (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architects OMA have proposed flower auction houses, cable cars and an outdoor theatre as part of Central Holland’s bid to host the World Horticultural Expo in 2022. (more…) View the full article

A pair of combined wall mirrors and dressing tables by Berlin designer Florian Schmid have gone into production with German furniture brand Zeitraum (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This roof of this sea-facing holiday house in Perth jolts up and down to create four irregular gables. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article