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Better Shelter is the latest IKEA product to be hacked, according to the head of the company's charitable foundation, who told Dezeen the modular refugee cabin is now being used to create doctors' surgeries and schools. Read more View the full article

Triangular facets of stone and shimmering glass provide the irregular form of Coop Himmelb(l)au's Museum of Contemporary Art and Planning Exhibition, which is now complete in Shenzhen. Read more View the full article

American company UPS is testing a drone-launching delivery truck that it hopes will make its parcel service more efficient in rural locations. Read more View the full article

Bestselling timepieces by Hong Kong-based brand Void have arrived at Dezeen Watch Store in new colour combinations. Read more View the full article

Kengo Kuma's planned Eco-Luxury Hotel in Paris and AL_A's expansion of London's V&A museum feature in the latest edition of Dezeen Mail, our weekly newsletter. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail › View the full article

Pentagram's Luke Hayman has collaborated with American rock band The National to design the album cover and promotional material for new record Sleep Well Beast, out today. Read more View the full article

Blackened wood is an ever-popular choice of material for architects in recent times. Here are 10 of the most eye-catching examples, including a nine-square-metre Muji Hut and a tar-coated Californian ski chalet. Read more View the full article

Waind Gohil and Potter Architects has created a sculptural staircase, which was fabricated off-site and assembled like a puzzle, as the centrepiece of a house in London. Read more View the full article

Engineering studio Close to Bone has announced plans to rebuild and enlarge the cantilevered viewing platform it built in Flanders, Belgium, which was severely damaged in an apparent explosion. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: building-centric activities will take place throughout October in New York City, as part of a celebration organised by the Center for Architecture. Read more View the full article

The latest edition of our newsletter Dezeen Weekly features a home created within a derelict chapel, which was named London's best new house extension, and David Chipperfield's soon-to-open Zhejiang Museum of Natural History. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly ›

This captioned video shows a virtual reality experience created by Universal Everything, where a 5,000-strong crowd of simulated humans surges and swarms in response to the user's movements. Read more

A raft of safety technologies that could help reduce accidents on the roads, including speed-limiting systems, will become mandatory in all new European cars. Read more

Is the nuclear family home an architectural tool of repression and social control? asks Phineas Harper. Read more

With 20 days to go until entries close for Dezeen Awards 2019, there's still time to get your work seen by some of the biggest names in the industry. Read more

New York design studio Egg Collective has opened a new showroom in Lower Manhattan's Tribeca neighbourhood, where its furniture is displayed in rooms laid out like a home. Read more

A barrel-vault topped with corrugated steel forms the dramatic pine living space within this summer cabin near the town of Nykøbing Sjælland, Denmark. Read more

Sam Jacob Studio has turned the two dimensional graphics of cartoon strips into three dimensional architecture to create the colourful interiors of the Cartoon Museum in London. Read more

Brazilian studio Atelier Branco has completed a glass house among a rainforest in São Paulo with a rooftop terrace for the resident "to read and smoke a cigar looking at the stars". Read more

California firm Síol Studios has maintained the historical character of a 1920s dwelling while adding contemporary elements, including an eclectic array of furnishings and artwork. Read more

Dezeen Jobs has selected five of the top architecture and design opportunities this week, including vacancies at architecture firms Purcell and Gresford Architects in Oxford. Read more

Scribbles and paint-like splotches appear on this range of rugs that designer Faye Toogood has created in collaboration with Cc-tapis, currently being presented within the brand's new Milan showroom. Read more View the full article

Orange-tinted acrylic tubes and tree bark are among the objects that Sam Jacob Studio has piled up on the shelves inside this London office. Read more View the full article

A number of design industry events that were set to take place in Hong Kong over the coming weeks have been cancelled, following the most violent clashes in the city since protests began in June. Read more View the full article

Linde Freya Tangelder creates furniture pieces that combine architectural references with surprising materials. She talks Dezeen through six key projects, including tables based on Lina Bo Bardi's windows and chairs built from columns. Read more View the full article