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Product design studio Tiipoi has worked with Indian master craftsman Mathew Sasa to create a collection of ceramic vessels using a technique found in a remote village in northeastern India. Read more View the full article

New York designer Stephen Burks filled the Milan showroom of Italian brand Calligaris with colourful ropes and columns of plastic chairs lashed together last month (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

British architecture studio Asif Khan has revealed the entrance gateways to the Dubai Expo 2020, woven from carbon fibre to create 21-metre-high mashrabiya-style lattices. Read more View the full article

Opinion: in this week's Opinion column, Lucas Verweij argues that as the design field expands to encompass all creative activities and designers try to solve all the world's problems, the discipline cannot possibly live up to expectations. (more...) View the full article

Promotion: entries are now being accepted for the Furniture Design Award and Furniture Design Platform 2013 organised by the Singapore Furniture Industries Council. (more…) View the full article

Opinion: in the first of his monthly columns for Dezeen, V&A senior curator Kieran Long argues that today's obsession with authorship and celebrity "leads to serious imbalances in the way we see design in the world" and calls for an overhaul of the way design is curated in the twenty-first century. (more...) View the full article

Plants climb all over vertical concrete louvres surrounding the facades of this holiday resort on the Vietnamese coastline designed by Vo Trong Nghia Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Nike is putting new focus into sustainability, says chief operating officer Eric Sprunk, and has just created a new super material from recyclable natural leather fibre. Read more View the full article

New York architect Rafael de Cárdenas has created a split-level bar in Nordstrom's flagship store in Midtown Manhattan. Read more View the full article

Swedish designer Kajsa Melchior has created a collection of furniture and lighting with organic silhouettes, shaped like geologic formations using just pressure, water and air. Read more View the full article

A Foster-designed Apple store in China (pictured), Kanye West's Yeezy collection for Adidas and the Designs of the Year nominees feature in Dezeen Mail issue 241. Click through for all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 241 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Dutch architecture studio GAAGA designed an asymmetrical facade to make these two houses in Leiden look like only one. (more…) View the full article

Future Makers: London designer Rachel Harding has created a balloon-like chair by inflating Corian, a solid surface material more commonly used for kitchen or bathroom countertops (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

US studio The Ranch Mine has completed a residential development in central Phoenix that consists of a pair of matching buildings, each containing five spacious townhouses. Read more View the full article

Designers Lanzavecchia + Wai are the latest to craft objects in coloured glass, producing bright blue tableware for online retailer Luisa Via Roma (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

MAD founder Ma Yansong has designed a range of sci-fi-inspired furniture, designed to be used when humans colonise Mars. Read more View the full article

This year's Oslo Architecture Triennale looks at degrowth, an economic that calls for a reduction of both production and consumption, and asks what architecture could do to support it. Dezeen editor-at-large Amy Frearson picks out 10 of the most interesting ideas. Read more View the full article

Wooden decor and glass vitrines feature in this cannabis shop in the Pacific Northwest, which was designed by US studio Graham Baba Architects to provide a "personalised, leisurely browsing experience". Read more View the full article

A hidden roof terrace and minimal wood-lined interiors are among the features that O'Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects and Cathie Curran have added in an overhaul of this north London house. Read more View the full article

Opinion: in her first column for Dezeen, critic Alexandra Lange argues that architects are misusing platforms like Twitter and Tumblr. "Architects need to start thinking of social media as the first draft of history," she writes. (more...) View the full article

Steven Holl's recent proposal for Dublin, and its tenuous reference to a landmark 160 miles away, is symptomatic of architects' obsession with fake meanings, says Sean Griffiths. Read more View the full article

Clerkenwell Design Week 2013: Zaha Hadid has opened a gallery in Clerkenwell, central London, to display her furniture and design to the public (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with New Zealand winemaker Brancott Estate and designer Dror Benshetrit to give one reader the chance to win two tickets to an exclusive talk in New York City on 21 October 2015 (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London-based surfaces manufacturer Foresso uses timber offcuts and plaster waste to produce this terrazzo-like sheet material, which retains the character of woodgrain. Read more View the full article

Zaha Hadid has created a seven-storey office block in Moscow for the city's growing IT and creative sectors, with off-set floor plates and a dramatic black-and-white atrium (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article