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This week on Dezeen: Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena used his Pritzker Prize ceremony to announce plans for combatting the global housing crisis this week, and the Dezeen team looked ahead to the world's biggest and most important design fair. (more…) View the full article

Australian cycling accessories manufacturer Knog has designed an alternative to the traditional domed bike bell – a donut-shaped device that wraps around the handlebars (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

PLP Architecture and researchers from the University of Cambridge have revealed a concept for London's first wooden skyscraper – a 300-metre-tall addition to the Barbican housing estate. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2016: Swiss studio Big-Game has added to the growing list of children's products launching in Milan with a miniature adjustable plastic chair (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Sportswear brand Nike has opened a textile design studio in east London to develop new fabrics for its shoes and apparel. (more…) View the full article

Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an interior designer/architect at Paul Lukez Architecture, whose projects include a prototype for a zero energy home (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Extra Moooi: in our next movie for Moooi, Dutch designer Marcel Wanders discusses his Space-Frame light, which features dozens of LED lamps supported by a truss-like wire frame (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2016: American designer and architect David Rockwell has created a collection of furniture for Stellar Works, one of a host of Chinese brands due to exhibit during Milan design week (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The American Institute of Architects has announced its top 10 American housing projects of 2016, including a group of treehouse-like cabins in Minnesota woodland and an inner-city development for formerly homeless people in San Francisco (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Chinese consumers are developing a taste for western furniture and lifestyles thanks to Ikea, according to the founders of Danish design brand Hay. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Japanese brand Maruni Wood Industry will launch products by designers Naoto Fukasawa and Jasper Morrison at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile fair in Milan next week (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

This galvanised metal office block by Japanese studio Ninkipen! is slotted into a narrow gap between two Tokyo buildings, and has an interior with an intentionally unfinished appearance (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2016: online furniture brand Hem is launching six new and updated products by designers including Philippe Malouin, Form Us With Love and Max Lamb in Milan next week. (more…) View the full article

This football stadium in Montreal has a giant faceted roof structure, which folds over an indoor playing field before morphing into spectator seating surrounding a second open-air pitch (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architecture students from at the University of Colorado Denver have built a series of rustic dwellings for an outdoor education school in the Rocky Mountains (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2016: a minimal rocking horse by Nendo and a swing by Philippe Starck are among Italian design brand Kartell's collection of products aimed specifically at children, a key trend in Milan this year (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2016: Italian architect Carlo Ratti has created a system of smart modular seats that can be adjusted with an app or hand gestures into different configurations (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Opinion: the conversion of old industrial buildings into "creative office space" has proven so successful in LA, even galleries like Hauser Wirth & Schimmel are getting in on the act, says Mimi Zeiger. (more…) View the full article

Dutch office MVRDV has revealed plans to build a huge staircase out of scaffolding in Rotterdam, the latest in a series of exciting new additions to the city. (more…) View the full article

Movie: Land Rover chief design officer Gerry McGovern and Jean-Christophe Chopin of crowdfunding platform Born introduce the 2016 Born Awards in this movie filmed for the brand by Dezeen. (more…) View the full article

Osaka studio Process5 Design created this weekend retreat in western Japan to accommodate activities that are usually impossible in a city house (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Los Angeles-based Standard Architecture has completed a store for fashion brand Helmut Lang that features smooth plaster walls, cove lighting and a light-filled garden (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architecture students at Boston's Northeastern University are petitioning for improved studio space, alleging their current working conditions are unsanitary, unsafe, cold and cramped. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2016: the latest designer rocking horse comes from Stockholm studio Front, which has based its minimal design for Gebrüder Thonet Vienna on an old bent-wood chair from the furniture brand's archive. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2016: Toyota has created an open-top two-seater vehicle made out of wood to combat the idea that "modern cars have to be high-tech machines packed with the latest technologies" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article