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New York 2016: Shanghai studio Neri&Hu has designed a collection of furniture for Italian brand Poltrona Frau that provides decorative storage solutions (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Ramsey Jones Architects has completed a vacation home in Wisconsin that consists of a slender rectangular bar with a square opening that frames views of one of the USA's Great Lakes (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: TID's No.1 watch by Form Us With Love now comes with a strap made from recycled textiles and leather off-cuts as part of the Stockholm-based design brand's efforts to "minimise waste". (more…) View the full article

A museum dedicated to Swedish furniture giant Ikea is scheduled to open at the end of this month inside the building that housed the company's first ever store (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our US job of the week on the new and improved Dezeen Jobs website is for an experienced project leader at Studio Link-Arc in New York, which designed the bamboo cladding for the roof of China's Milan Expo 2015 (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Japanese industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa has transformed the interior of a concrete building in Tokyo into a space for fashion designer Issey Miyake's pleated menswear collection (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the Southern California Institute of Architecture has launched a scholarship for a European architecture student to study a masters at the university in Los Angeles. (more…) View the full article

BIG, Caruso St John and Stanton Williams have been shortlisted to design a new building for the Museum of London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our job of the week on the new and improved Dezeen Jobs is for a 3D visualiser at David Chipperfield Architects, which recently unveiled renderings of its plans to convert the US Embassy in London into a hotel (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has built visitor facilities at a historic mine in Norway, with one structure that hangs off a wall and two that are raised on stilts over a steep cliffside (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Beijing tech startup Zero Zero Robotics has launched a self-flying drone camera that uses facial recognition to record video while hovering in the air. (more…) View the full article

Milwaukee-based Johnsen Schmaling Architects has completed a family retreat in rural Wisconsin featuring blackened pine cladding, concrete floors and wide-span glass doors (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Rise Design Studio has added a glazed extension to the rear of a house in London, creating a light-filled kitchen and dining room that opens up to the garden (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The City of Los Angeles has chosen a design by OMA and landscape architects Mia Lehrer + Associates to transform a site in the Downtown area into a public park (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

New York's Museum of Modern Art has announced a major exhibition of work by famed American architect Frank Lloyd Wright to coincide with what would have been his 150th birthday. (more…) View the full article

Robots could soon be infiltrating urban sewage systems to identify potential outbreaks of disease before they happen, according to architect and MIT professor Carlo Ratti (+ interview). (more…) View the full article

Canadian architect Brian MacKay-Lyons has built a cabin for an architecture intern at his Nova Scotia farmstead, featuring a rough skin of weathering steel, and a rustic but compact interior (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

An exhibition covering the prolific output of Japanese studio Nendo and its founder Oki Sato has opened at Israel's Design Museum Holon (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Business news: a lawsuit has uncovered details that suggest the 2014 merger between US furniture brand Herman Miller and retailer Design Within Reach may not have technically happened. (more…) View the full article

With the trend for co-living continuing to pick up speed, German architect Alexis Dornier has transformed a group of old apartment blocks in Bali into a communal housing development (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

New materials company Ananas Anam is using pineapple waste to create a new material that provides an animal-friendly alternative to leather. (more…) View the full article

US firm NBBJ has created the largest office in North America for tech company Samsung, incorporating features intended to show how a "legacy brand can play on par with the most-nimble tech startups" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Water flows in seemingly impossible ways across this liquid-resistant fountain by London designer Arthur Carabott (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Designers and brands need to wean themselves off the plastic "drug", according to Parley for the Oceans founder Cyrill Gutsch, who is releasing his organisation's shoes made from recycled ocean plastic with Adidas today (+ interview). (more…) View the full article

Sports brand Adidas and environmental initiative Parley for the Oceans have released the first batch of running shoes with uppers made using recycled plastic recovered from the sea (+ movie). (more…) View the full article