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In this exclusive movie, the founder of Studio Gang Architects explains how her design for the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership in Michigan was intended to bring human rights issues out of "invisible places" and into public consciousness (+ movie). (more…)

Interview: Dutch sculptor Theo Jansen has spent the last 24 years developing a series of wind-powered machines called Strandbeests that he describes as "a new species on Earth". Dezeen caught up with him on Miami Beach last week, where he explained how his creations are now evolving without his help (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen, designers created face shields, mask holders and an emergency hospital to help combat the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: The Change Agent flooring collection by US manufacturer Milliken offers a range of earthy colours "to bring the outside in". Read more View the full article

An exhibition at the V&A Dundee explores the evolving relationship between humans and robots. From 1920s sci-fi films to brain-controlled exoskeletons, curator Kirsty Hassard picks five highlights. Read more View the full article

PUP Architects has refurbished Surrey Docks Farm in London, reinstating a three-storey tower clad in black timber and topped by a golden pig weathervane. Read more View the full article

Five years ago Foster + Partners unveiled ambitious proposals for a “zero carbon, zero waste” development in Abu Dhabi to be planned like an ancient walled city and OMA designed a Death Star-like convention centre, also for the United Arab Emirates. Andrea Salvetti showed chairs that look like nests, cupboards resembling giant logs, super-sized eggs and a giant filigree mushroom. We also showed our readers what we thought might have been the best new chair from Milan and published a set of bird houses designed to look like little churches. In London, students from the Royal College of Art exhibited knuckledusters that leave messages on skin, plates for arguing couples t…

Product news: this chair by San Francisco design studio Mike & Maaike wraps around the sitter to create a refuge in busy interiors. (more...) View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2015: Dutch furniture designer Piet Hein Eek has joined the debate about whether non-architects should design buildings, saying most architects are "not interested" in construction. (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

ÉCAL graduate Anna Piasek has created modular takeaway food packaging that can be divided like a bento box and composted after use. Read more View the full article

News: Apple‘s senior vice president of industrial design Jonathan Ive is to design a camera for German brand Leica, reports PetaPixel. (more…) View the full article

Illustrator Vic Lee tells us how his banners depicting the former names of Covent Garden streets hark back to the area's sordid past in the next of our Seven Designers for Seven Dials movies about aerial installations curated by Dezeen. (more...) View the full article

Design Indaba 2015: fashion is dead, trend forecaster Li Edelkoort has declared, describing the fashion industry as "a ridiculous and pathetic parody of what it has been" (+ interview). (more…) View the full article

Short pieces of debarked timber are stacked to form the walls of this remote wilderness retreat, designed for an active family by US studio Andersson-Wise Architects. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: the Workshop Table for Muuto "has an almost archetypal appearance," according to designer Cecilie Manz. Read more View the full article

The design features of Indian stepwells and water mazes are combined in this proposal for a landscaped garden by architecture studio Penda (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

With 2016 drawing to a close, we're continuing our review of the year by looking back on some of the best transport designs, including a driverless car with a lift-up roof, a motorcycle that can't fall over and a 3D-printed wheelchair. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio Space Encounters built a tile-clad office building on stilts in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, above an existing brick warehouse. Read more View the full article

New York design studio The Very Many has built a white orbed pavilion in Charlotte, North Carolina with bulbs shaded soft blue and pink inside. Read more

Second Home Hollywood, the first US location from the British co-working company, is revealed in this captioned video produced by Dezeen for Second Home. Read more View the full article

Geometric shapes balance precariously atop misshapen forms in this abstract sculpture series by Swedish designer Malou Palmqvist. Read more

News: designers Seung-Yong Song, Jon Stam and Bethan Laura Wood have been announced as the winners of this year's W Hotels Designers of the Future Award. (more...) View the full article

We're now looking back at our top five stories in October and sailing into an easy first place is the yacht designed by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs before his death, while the news was dominated by architecture in China and the integration of digital and industrial design at Apple. (more...) View the full article

The latest edition of Dezeen Weekly includes "one of the best inventions ever made" according to one of our readers and the UK's best house of the year as named by the Royal Institute of British Architects. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly › View the full article