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Our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day kicks off with a series of conversations with designers including Nelly Ben Hayoun and Nigerian architect Kunlé Adeyemi. Read more View the full article

Are the designs for a "restrained" Beijing skyscraper a step in the right direction for Zaha Hadid Architects? In this week's comments update, readers are claiming the firm is better when it tones down the curves. Read more View the full article

The independent spatial research group Forensic Architecture is seeking footage of the fatal fire at Grenfell Tower to create a 3D video that could build a better understanding of how the disaster unfolded. Read more View the full article

Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava's vast ribbed structure that soars over the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in New York is captured in these images by British photography duo Hufton + Crow (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A house in Vietnam by Khuôn Studio is built around a triple-heigh atrium filled with plants and shaded by a perforated facade of grey brick. Read more View the full article

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

In his latest contribution to Virtual Design Festival, video blogger Martin van der Linden uses some of his favourite architecture books to explain the order behind Tokyo's apparently chaotic urban landscape. Read more View the full article

Panoramic windows puncture the grey brick walls of this guest house, designed by South Korean studio Z Lab to optimise views of Jeju island's picturesque coastline (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The faceted, limestone-clad facades of this town hall in Bodø, Norway, have been designed to capture the dramatic changes in light and shadow that are characteristic within the Arctic Circle. Read more View the full article

The British summer has been rained off so far, but these umbrellas by Ella Doran will remind you of sunnier days. They’re available from the Dezeen Super Store at 38 Monmouth Street, London WC2, so come down to the launch party on Thursday 12th July and print off this flyer for 10% off any product in store! (more…) View the full article

DSHELL is a young dynamic company with a team that has a proven track record delivering to the highest standards for demanding customers. We always strive to exceed customer expectations. Our talks with students and academics created North American country discover that the scholars wont to take over the free areas of the college corridors to improvise their daily operating sessions. therefore we tend to come up with the thought that rather than limiting the research laboratory to a restricted space of the building, we should always re-design these areas and improve their comfort of labor. we tend to needed to form the thought radiate throughout the school within the man…

Large openings in the corrugated-metal facades of this boxy building in Shizuoka, Japan, frame views of the neighbourhood from a shop on the ground floor and residence above. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: cantilevered holiday cabins in Norway, a faceted coastal sauna in Finland and a peculiar black house are among the winners of this year's A' Design Award and Competition. Read more View the full article

Wooden walls concertina across open-plan living areas to subdivide the space in this renovated stone house and extension by Spanish office XLMS (+ slideshow). (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

The black and white geometric forms hanging from the ceiling of this boutique in Kuwait are intended to entice costumers into the store (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Swedish architecture firm White Arkitekter has pledged that every building it designs will be carbon neutral by 2030. Read more View the full article

Slideshow: Israeli studios Monkey Business and Reddish have designed these pins for making little animal characters from wine corks at the dinner table. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

To make the most of space in this micro apartment in Moscow, Studio Bazi added a raised wooden volume that contains the sleeping quarters, but also creates disguised storage space. Read more View the full article

This minimal concrete and glass pavilion in Flanders, Belgium, by Govaert & Vanhoutte Architectuurburo houses a visitor centre for the world's largest Commonwealth war cemetery, where 11,956 servicemen of the First World War are buried or commemorated (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Australian designer Tom Fereday has developed a faceted cement breeze block that can be flipped over and combined in various ways to create angled surfaces. Read more

Millions of tiny perforations are dotted across the rusted steel walls of this rural retreat in Victoria by Melbourne architects Inarc. (more…) View the full article

Mizuno Architecture Design has created a concrete office and conference facility for the employees of a tuna processing factory in the Japanese seaside town of Yaizu (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Sports brand Reebok has released a space boot designed specifically for astronauts taking part in an upcoming voyage to the International Space Station. Read more View the full article

This flat-packed delivery truck is designed to be easily disassembled and packed away in under 12 hours (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article