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Comments update: design education in the UK was the hot topic among readers this week, as industry figures claimed they prefer to hire graduates from overseas during Dezeen's Brexit design summit, and a survey revealed 25 per cent of architecture students have mental health problems. (more…) View the full article

Faceted recesses in the stone-clad facade of this office building in the Iranian capital, Tehran, contain wooden louvres that provide shade to the large windows behind (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

These new photographs reveal a vast cultural complex by Zaha Hadid Architects, which is reaching its final stages of construction in the Chinese city Nanjing (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week, Donald Trump's Mexican border wall was envisioned as a Barragán-inspired pink barrier, and Dezeen was annotated using a typeface based on the US presidential candidate's handwriting. Read more View the full article

This week on Dezeen, a Chinese company launched the world's fastest electric car, while Jonathan Ive and Marc Newson teamed up to create a Christmas tree installation. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne has revealed the programme for this year's event, which will feature exhibitions focused on new ways of working. Read more View the full article

The developer behind plans for New York's tallest timber-framed building, designed by SHoP Architects, has axed the project. Read more View the full article

Designer Anda Andrei explains how the interiors of the 11 Howard hotel are designed to age over time in this movie Dezeen filmed for the AHEAD Awards in New York. Read more View the full article

The leaves of an artificial tree at this year's Burning Man festival illuminated with "light flocks" in response to visitors' movements, heart beats and brain activity. Read more View the full article

Joe Shih Architects and Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop have won the international competition to design an art museum in Taoyuan, Taiwan. Read more View the full article

Wearers of luxury fashion brand Vetements latest collection can learn about the history of Georgia by scanning QR codes incorporated into the items. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: British designer Tom Dixon and brands Vitra, Moroso and Magis will all be exhibiting at the Warsaw Home international trade fair, which returns this October. Read more View the full article

Oslo-based architect Espen Surnevik has nestled the PAN Treetop Cabins on slender stilts among the treetops of Finnskogen, a woodland in east Norway. Read more

Online marketplace 1st Dibs has opened its first brick-and-mortar store in a former warehouse in New York City, where customers can peruse new works by Fernando Mastrangelo Studio and Ladies & Gentlemen Studio, as well as antiques. Read more

Change isn't happening fast enough for women in architecture says Jeanne Gang, who suggests that all firms should be set a target to close their gender pay gap. Read more

With our early entry discount ending tomorrow, here are answers to some of the questions Dezeen Awards 2019 entrants have been asking us this week! Read on to have your last-minute queries answered. Read more

A property developer in China has won a payout over an article claiming the Feng Shui of the Wangjing Soho in Beijing by Zaha Hadid Architects was poor. Read more

The UK government has promised to pay to replace combustible cladding on private high-rise housing, almost two years after the Grenfell Tower fire. Read more

Balconies fan out like leaves from the mixed-use L'Arbre Blanc tower, which Sou Fujimoto has completed in Montpellier with Nicolas Laisné, Dimitri Roussel and OXO Architectes. Read more

This week Dezeen Jobs has selected five architecture and design opportunities based in China, including vacancies at UNStudio and Aedas. Read more

Troubled Scandinavian design retailer Skandium has been acquired by a Danish duo, who have reopened the e-commerce site and plan to open a new showroom on London's Brick Lane next month. Read more

The UK government says building owners will face "consequences" if they do not use a new £200 million fund to remove dangerous cladding, 26 months after the Grenfell Tower Fire. Read more

This week, Dezeen reported on the world's blackest black material engineered by MIT, and the record-breaking Central Park Tower topped out in New York. Read more

Neri Oxman's Mediated Matter Group has digitally designed and robotically fabricated a structure using the molecular components found in tree branches, insect exoskeletons and human bones. Read more View the full article

Snøhetta has designed a visitor centre for two archives, which will be built within the Arctic Circle on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago. Read more View the full article