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A survey carried out by the British Fashion Council has revealed that 90 per cent of British fashion designers say they will vote to remain in the European Union. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen competition: Dezeen has teamed up with the Royal Academy of Arts to give away five pairs of tickets to this year's Annual Architecture lecture, which will be delivered by Chinese architects Lu Wenyu and Wang Shu. (more…) View the full article

Opinion: on the Brexit battleground, fluffy design nostalgia is being pitched against the EU's bland passports, forgettable glass buildings and uninspiring flag. This could all have been avoided, says Will Wiles. (more…) View the full article

These visualisations show the swathe of skyscrapers set to spring up across New York by 2020. (more…) View the full article

Examples of Iran's booming architecture scene, a tear-resistant condom and reaction to the collapse of Kunlé Adeyemi's award-winning Makoko Floating School feature in this week's Dezeen Mail. Read Dezeen Mail issue 310 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

David Adjaye's firm has been selected to design a major new art museum in Riga, Latvia (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Ikea has unveiled furniture and homeware made from recycled wood, plastic and glass as part of its latest PS collection aimed at young urban dwellers (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has combined elements of his previous structures with traditional Indonesian craftwork to create a shop and restaurant venue in Hong Kong – his first project in the city (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with London's Royal College of Art to offer five readers the chance to win a pair of tickets to the private view of the school's 2016 graduate exhibition on 23 June 2016. (more…) View the full article

Following the fifth edition of Romanian Design Week, Dezeen has selected the best exhibited designs, including modular children's furniture, wooden headphones and traditionally patterned rugs (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Swedish sex toy company Lelo has developed a condom with hexagonal-shaped cells that the company claims will tear less than others on the market. (more…) View the full article

Kicking off a series that spotlights houses from different US states, we've searched our archive for five of the best residences in Texas. They include a black timber extension to an Austin bungalow and a lakefront dwelling with a pre-rusted steel treehouse (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A giant glass and steel doughnut that will transport passengers up and down a 162-metre-high pole is undergoing final tests ahead of its opening later this summer, according to designer Marks Barfield Architects. (more…) View the full article

Zaha Hadid 1950-2016: next up in our exclusive video series, Richard Rogers reflects on the battle to select Zaha Hadid's design for the London Aquatics Centre, a building he describes as "a roaring success". (more…) View the full article

Furniture, tableware and objects from the Philip Johnson-designed The Four Seasons restaurant in New York are to be auctioned off, marking the destruction of "one of the rarest phenomena in Modernism" according to US critics (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A gabled cabin by architecture studio Atelier Bow-Wow and a faceted pod by artist Didier Faustino have been installed inside a Parisian gallery as part of an exhibition about imaginary worlds. (more…) View the full article

It's not too late to find a last-minute present for Father's Day this Sunday. From a ballpoint pen that can make digital notes to a TV designed by the Bouroullec brothers, we've filled our gift guide with 10 of the best new products (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London and St Louis-based design studio Kiku Obata & Company is overseeing the redevelopment of an ageing downtown district in the US heartland, in a rural town where big-box stores have taken over (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Johanna Agerman Ross is leaving her post as editor of quarterly design journal Disegno to join the V&A as curator of 20th century and contemporary furniture and 20th century product design. (more…) View the full article

Comments update: architect Kunlé Adeyemi's award-winning Makoko Floating School collapsed last week, sparking a debate about the project's credentials and the media's previously flattering coverage of its design. But does the floating-school concept still have a future? (more…) View the full article

Benjamin Hubert's design studio Layer has created a collection of slip-cast ceramic trays with an integrated charging system that allows tablets and mobile phones to be powered wirelessly. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Chinese architects Lu Wenyu and Wang Shu, who was awarded the 2012 Pritzker Prize, will deliver the Royal Academy's prestigious Annual Architecture Lecture this year. (more…) View the full article

NeoCon 2016: London studio Industrial Facility has designed a modular seating system for US furniture company Herman Miller that hooks together to turn "a communal gathering area into a lecture theatre". (more…) View the full article

Iran is "on the verge of a new era for architecture" according to local architects, as change sweeps through the Islamic republic following the lifting of crippling economic sanctions (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Design Miami/Basel 2016: this year's Design Miami/Basel fair opens today in the Swiss city, where a six-tonne stone meditation space, a modular armadillo and designs by Zaha Hadid are among the highlights. (more…) View the full article