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Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed at Dezeen Space, Viennese designer Thomas Feichtner talks about One Crystal Chandelier and Drawing Lamp, the two lighting designs he exhibited as part of our our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform. The first is a chandelier with a single crystal, while the second is a task lamp that can be balanced in two different positions. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Studio Symbiosis has designed Aũra air purifying towers for Delhi, India, to help tackle the increasingly dangerous levels of pollution in the city. Read more View the full article

New York firm New Practice Studio chose red brickwork as the main material for this Chinese noodle bar in the city's Upper West Side to reference Beijing's hutongs. Read more View the full article

Ahead of today's VDF collaboration with Beatie Wolfe, the musician says that the coronavirus lockdown is a chance to celebrate "the little things that are so often overlooked" in this video message for Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

California's Salk Institute for Biological Studies is developing a plant that can store excess carbon dioxide in its roots, in a bid to curb the effects of climate change. Read more

With Brexit the British people have shown a greater appetite for risk than the creative sector, which needs to take the public more seriously or risk becoming irrelevant, says Martyn Perks of the Dissenters Design Network. Read more View the full article

Milan 2012: French designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec present this slender ash chair for Magis in Milan next week. (more…) View the full article

A team of researchers at Portland State University has developed a coffee cup that gives astronauts in space an earth-like drinking experience by driving liquid towards the mouth. Read more View the full article

Designer Gavin Keightley used foods including mashed potato and jelly to create moulds for this furniture collection, which is cast from Jesmonite dyed in fluorescent hues. Read more View the full article

A piece of the historic Covent Garden market appears to have broken free of its stone base, with its top half levitating in the air, in the latest installation by London designer Alex Chinneck. (more...) View the full article

Glossier's in-house design team channelled 19th-century splendour for the interiors of its pop-up shop in London, which is covered in colourful flower-print wallpaper. Read more View the full article

French-Brazilian firm Triptyque Architecture has designed a residential skyscraper covered in vegetation for São Paulo. (more…) View the full article

Student-style accommodation with communal facilities could help solve London's housing crisis and regenerate urban centres around the country, according to interior designer and TV presenter Naomi Cleaver. (more…) View the full article

Citroën has revealed its vision for the future of mobility in cities – the Ami One Concept electric vehicle, which is designed to be both an alternative to shared bikes and cars. Read more

Banana-fibre baskets and handwoven textiles feature in IKEA's seventh Innehållsrik collection, made in collaboration with small-scale producers in India. Read more View the full article

A free-running staircase (pictured) 3D-printing space robots and the "Walkie Scorchie" all feature in Dezeen Mail issue 168, which also includes all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 168 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

This office block in Rio de Janeiro features a triple-layered facade with a window wall, a screen of plants, and a thick lattice of perforated metal (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Spanish collective Grupo IUT built a tower of straw bales on the outskirts of Guimarães in Portugal (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: not content with playing host to the tallest building in the world, Dubai has unveiled plans for the world's first indoor city – a temperature-controlled mega resort featuring a retractable glass roof and the world's largest shopping centre. (more...) 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

Shelves are supported by dowels slotted into pegboard walls at a new store for skin and haircare brand Aesop in the Hamptons, New York (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Swiss typographer Adrian Frutiger, designer of typefaces including Univers, Avenir and the eponymous Frutiger, has died. (more…) View the full article

The Royal Institute of British Architects has named the 54 winners of its national awards, including the V&A Dundee by Kengo Kuma, Heatherwick's Coal Drops Yard and Peter Zumthor's Secular Retreat. Read more

Rows of interchangeable tiles spell out what’s on the menu at this fast-food pasta outlet in Tel Aviv, designed by Studio OPA as a “tribute to Scrabble”. (more…) View the full article

Our selection of the most promising architecture and design roles on Dezeen Jobs this week includes positions at British artist Wolfgang Buttress' studio and Italian firm Dimore Studio. Read more View the full article