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International firm SWA Group has been selected to redesign Futian District in Shenzhen, an area that’s larger than Manhattan (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Here are some photographs from the exhibition Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion, designed by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto and currently on show at the Barbican gallery in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2013: from synthetic biology to 3D printing, technologies that could signal the future of fashion are demonstrated in garments and accessories at an exhibition in Eindhoven (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London architects Tonkin Liu have completed a wind-powered metal flower beside the River Mersey in England. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: a leaked British Cabinet Office list obtained by the BBC reveals the futures of the British Council and Design Council are “still to be decided”, while CABE’s fate is noted as “to be decided – consider consolidating functions across Government”. Download the document here (via @ianfordham on Twitter). </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The developer behind Foster + Partners' 3 Sutton Place tower on Manhattan's East Side, originally planned to be 290-metres tall, lost a fight to block foreclosure proceedings on the site before declaring itself bankrupt this week. (more…) View the full article

Interieur 2012: soft leather seats hang between the colourful plastic shelves of this furniture by Belgian design duo Muller Van Severen presented at the Interieur design biennale in Kortrijk, Belgium, last week (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: Heart of Doha, a 31-hectare masterplan designed by AECOM for the gateway to Inner Doha has been named Future Project of the Year at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore. (more…) View the full article

Interactive designers rAndom International have created a lighting installation that can map and replicate human movement. (more…) View the full article

News: researchers in America have developed a friction-based miniature generator that could enable mobile devices to be charged by typing or stroking the screen. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: advances in 3D-scanning technology could enable virtual tourism by providing a "life-like experience" of faraway places says architect Pernilla Ohrstedt (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Construction has begun on a large-scale housing development designed by Dutch firm MVRDV for Pune, India. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New York's Museum of Modern Art is closing its architecture and design galleries for refurbishment, but the institution is unable to confirm that they will reopen in the same format. (more…) View the full article

New York studio The Extrapolation Factory has won this year's Lexus Design Award, with a project that encourages communities to speculate on the future of cities and daily life. Read more View the full article

Creating communally for social good has to be the future of design, says Robert Phillips, author of Futurekind: Design by and for the People. He picks out five projects from the book that demonstrate the idea in action. Read more

A design for "the most Instagrammable billboard in the world" by a Los Angeles team has beaten schemes by Zaha Hadid Architects and Gensler in a competition to create an advertising structure for Sunset Boulevard. Read more View the full article

This conceptual design for a family home by postgraduate architecture student Gonzalo Vaíllo Martínez features a fluid structural frame, a skeletal staircase and a skin incorporating blinds that open and close like gills (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Fashion designer Sadie Williams has heat-pressed neoprene to create this collection of metallic sci-fi garments, which was nominated for Designs of the Year 2014 earlier this week. (more...) View the full article

Interieur 2012: British designer Ross Lovegrove presented a futuristic concept car shaped according to instinct rather than science at the Interieur design biennale in Kortrijk, Belgium, last week (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Architecture studio SO designed this bunker-like concrete house in the Thai city of Chiang Mai around a pathway that provides locals a shortcut between two roads. Read more View the full article

Architecture firm FXFOWLE has unveiled plans for a new museum beside the Statue of Liberty, featuring a green roof and viewing platform overlooking New York harbour (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

VDF products fair: German building-technology supplier Jung has developed the versatile G + I socket that is compatible with plug types from various geographies. Read more View the full article

Square openings form a grid of tiny windows through the screens of this clinic for hair restoration and removal in Tokyo by Japanese studio KORI architecture office (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Japanese office G Studio added swathes of white paint to the walls of this loft apartment in Tokyo, making it look like the space is unfinished (+ slideshow). (more…)

Construction has begun on the new headquarters for fashion brand G-Star RAW in Amsterdam, designed by architects OMA. (more…) View the full article