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These hanging plant pots by Dutch designer Roderick Vos incorporate overhead lighting and plug sockets for a space-saving approach to adding greenery to the office. (more...) View the full article

Hungarian art and design collective Szövetség'39 has unveiled a concept to reduce the rising sea levels in the world's delta regions by introducing a modular structure that will cultivate mangrove forests to form natural dams. (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

VDF products fair: Noun Amsterdam's colourful wall rugs called The Lips are designed by Sandra Keja Planken to add "depth, vibrancy and boldness" to interior spaces. Read more View the full article

British designer Bethan Gray and Islamic art and craft revivalist Mitchell Abdul Karim Crites have launched the first furniture and tableware collections from their new company The Ruby Tree. (more...) View the full article

Canadian studio Lateral Office has installed 12 oversized seesaws that light up and make sounds on the streets of New York City's Garment District. Read more View the full article

OOIIO Architecture has applied varying tones of stonework to the irregularly stacked blocks that make up this house in central Spain (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

These wooden shoes by London-based footwear designer Cat Potter clamp around the wearer’s feet and fasten with a metal hinge. (more…) View the full article

Delicate lanterns made from pleated paper and table lamps that display assorted objects are among Dezeen editor Amy Frearson's highlights from lighting fair Euroluce in Milan. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Dezeen has been named Digital Business Publisher of the Year 2012 by the Association of Online Publishers. Judges of the AOP 2012 Awards described Dezeen as “A smart entrepreneurial brand, with beautifully designed products – from websites to pop-up shops. Strong evidence of experimentation, fast growing revenue and audience”. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: in our latest competition, we've partnered with architecture forum The World Around to give away two tickets to its conference taking place for the first time in January 2020. Read more View the full article

Interview: architect Ben van Berkel of UNStudio was in London last week to launch Canaletto, a residential tower being built in the east of the city. He spoke to Dezeen about the project, about his plans to create the first open-source architecture studio and about the "devastatingly difficult" situation for architects in the Netherlands. (more...) View the full article

Dutch designer Thom Bindels has developed Ecosystem Kickstarter, a honeycomb-shaped cardboard frame that can help small-scale farmers grow crops in degraded soil. Read more View the full article

Product news: this lamp by Dutch designer Marcel Wanders for his design brand Moooi looks like a car headlamp but with floral patterns in the glass. (more…) View the full article

Following SOM’s new airport terminal in Mumbai featuring a vast concrete canopy and Grimshaw’s St Petersburg terminal comprising monumental folded ceilings, here are some of the most amazing examples of airport architecture from the pages of Dezeen (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2016: 50,000 metal triangles make up British designer Benjamin Hubert's undulating Foil installation, which casts light onto the V&A's medieval tapestries (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has refurbished the long-abandoned east wing and theatre at Alexandra Palace in London, leaving its original surfaces visible in a state of "arrested decay". Read more

News: Finnish design company Marimekko‘s classic floral print will appear on the livery of two Finnair aeroplanes as part of a collaboration that also includes a range of textiles and tableware for use onboard. (more…) View the full article

News: Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster have been selected to design high-rise hotels in China for Jumeirah Group. (more...) View the full article

When asked to draw up plans for a cycle-hire shop in southern China, Dutch studio NL Architects thought it would be fun to put a velodrome on the roof. (more…) View the full article

Despite being surrounded by electricity pylons, this hillside cabin in Japan by San Francisco firm Anderson Anderson Architecture generates all its own energy and heating using photovoltaic panels and a ground-sourced heat pump (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Brussels-based designer Alain Gilles' extendable table for Italian furniture brand Bonaldo turns its functional mechanism into an aesthetic feature (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

University of Westminster graduate Matthew Chamberlain has designed a sustainable treehouse to provide starter homes on London's streets, while also tackling the city's high pollution levels. Read more

News: the Guggenheim is just one of a string of institutions expanding internationally with new architecture projects. The Helsinki competition represents part of its plans to "stop being an exporting institution, and instead be a collaborative one," according to director Richard Armstrong (+ interview). (more…) View the full article

When Royal College of Art graduate Hotzu River Cheng found out that cooking fumes were a bigger cause of lung cancer than cigarettes among Chinese women, he set out to design a better extractor fan to protect them. (more…) View the full article