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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

A pink-tinged CBD store in New York and a minimalist handbag boutique in Milan are among the top 10 shops of 2019, selected by interiors reporter Natasha Levy as part of Dezeen's yearly review. Read more View the full article

We've selected five roles in PR and marketing available on Dezeen Jobs this week, including positions with Adjaye Associates and WilkinsonEyre. Read more View the full article

The latest edition of Dezeen Weekly includes a quirky 1970s house overhauled by Gundry & Ducker and Samsung's latest flip phone. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly › View the full article

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has announced that it will close indefinitely from tomorrow in a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus in the city. Read more View the full article

Dezeen announces Virtual Design Festival, the world's first online design festival, taking place from Wednesday 15 April onwards. Read more View the full article

El Hadi Jazairy and Rania Ghosn of collaborative architecture practice Design Earth discuss how to engage with the climate emergency in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic in this interview with architecture writer Carson Chan, which forms part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day. Read more View the full article

Not-for-profit organisation Estudio Cavernas has built the sugarcane-thatched Green Island community centre for over 400 Burmese children living near the Myanmar border in western Thailand. Read more View the full article

Danish architecture studio Adept has used customised curved bricks to clad the five-storey Theodora House housing block alongside the Elephant Gate at the Carlsberg Brewery in Copenhagen. Read more View the full article

More from Italian design brand Alessi: here are a couple of images showing a ceramic vase by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas Architects. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Jak Studio has redesigned the conventional L-shaped sofa to suit the "home workplace of the future", enabling it to be altered from seating or a bed into a work pod. Read more View the full article

Romanian studio Square One have completed a clothing store in Bucharest with pointy display stands and a network of black electrical cables. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We still have some T-shirts left from our DezeenBarBasso party in Milan last month, and we’re giving them away to 10 lucky readers. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: we’ve just added Vue by Yves Béhar for Issey Miyake (above) and Hu by Ross Lovegrove to the Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch shoe designer Marloes ten Bhömer has created a pair of 3D-printed shoes that can be individually made to fit perfectly. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swedish designers Humans since 1982 have created a hair clip with eyes on to make the wearer look like they’re standing the other way round and wearing a niqāb headdress. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Russian architects Arch-group have designed a Russian Orthodox church and cultural centre for a site by the Eiffel Tower in Paris. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has added stacked layers of white marble to create a podium in this Romanesque church in France. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The latest completed venue for the London 2012 Olympics is the Basketball Arena, a PVC tent designed by Sinclair Knight Merz with Wilkinson Eyre and KSS. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In this interview filmed by Dezeen for trade show Garden Unique at Spoga+Gafa, British garden designer Andrew Wilson of Wilson McWilliam Studio talks about a few of his favourite projects, including a pathway cantilevered over an intense sea of roses (above). Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this interview we filmed at Dezeen Space, designer Jólan van der Wiel explains how his series of stools are shaped by magnets and gravity. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article