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This week on Dezeen: critics spoke to Dezeen about how China's museum boom has resulted in cultural buildings with "no vision", while other industry experts told us that rising sea levels are sparking interest in amphibious architecture. (more…) View the full article

Sports brand Adidas has created a concept trainer with an upper made using waste plastic filtered out of the oceans and a 3D-printed midsole created from recycled fishing nets. (more…) View the full article

Sports brand Adidas has created a concept trainer with an upper made using waste plastic filtered out of the oceans and a 3D-printed midsole created from recycled fishing nets. (more…) View the full article

Hennebery Eddy Architects has clad a fire station in rural Oregon with charred wood, turning "the destructive manner of fire into an image of beauty" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Hennebery Eddy Architects has clad a fire station in rural Oregon with charred wood, turning "the destructive manner of fire into an image of beauty" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Design Miami 2015: Revolution Precrafted is aiming to "democratise high-design and architecture" with prefab structures by over 30 famous designers including Tom Dixon, Marcel Wanders, Kengo Kuma and Zaha Hadid. (more…) View the full article

Design Miami 2015: traditional automotive brands "don't need to be scared" of upstarts including Tesla and Apple – and the cars of the future may not be electric, according to Audi's head of experiential marketing. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Glasgow watch brand Paulin has launched the C201 Chronograph, a new take on one of its most popular analogue designs. (more…) View the full article

The Tower of London's famous resident ravens have a new home in a set of oak and mesh-encased aviaries designed by local firm Llowarch Llowarch Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Buckminster Fuller's principles of tensegrity informed the structural design of the Kurilpa Bridge in Brisbane, the latest addition to the Dezeen A-Zdvent calendar. (more…) View the full article

Perkins Eastman Architects' Green Line concept would see New York's iconic Broadway converted into a linear park running from Columbus Circle to Union Square. (more…) View the full article

China's rush to build thousands of new museums is leading to cultural buildings "with no vision and mediocre collections", according to architects and curators in the country (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a curator of 20th century and contemporary furniture at London's V&A Museum, where Mischer'Traxler filled a room with interactive glass bubbles (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Microsoft employees have moved into a new metal-clad headquarters in Denmark, designed by Henning Larsen Architects but based on a paper written by the tech company's founder Bill Gates (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola has revamped Cassina's showroom in Midtown Manhattan for her first major project since joining the Italian furniture brand as art director (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A water-filled patio with a slatted roof cuts into one corner of this L-shaped house near Córdoba, Argentina, which was designed by Agustín Lozada for a young family (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Influential US magazine Sight Unseen has launched an LA exhibition of work by local designers in response to the city's resurgence as a centre for design (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A women's athletic shop in Seattle by local firm GoCstudio features a display system that can be elevated with a hand crank to make way for in-store events (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Opinion: from drones to driverless buses, robots are seen as a replacement for workers who do society's "dirty, dangerous and dull" jobs. But robotic infrastructure has much wider implications for how our cities work, says Dan Hill. (more…) View the full article

Argentinian artist Tomás Saraceno has created a pair of air-filled globes that he eventually plans to sail across the sky. (more…) View the full article

Advances in genetic technology mean that creating synthetic animals has become just another branch of industrial design, according to Daisy Ginsberg. (more…) View the full article

This week's Dezeen Mail includes a concept proposing meatballs made out of insects for Ikea, Apple's gadget to increase iPhone 6 battery life and our Christmas gift guide, which features a Lego set created for architects (pictured). Read Dezeen Mail issue 283 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Spanish architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava has unveiled designs for three new multi-modal bridges for the growing Chinese city of Huashan (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A new copyright law in the UK will "wipe out" design book publishing and cripple design education, according to author and publisher Charlotte Fiell. (more…) View the full article

Three 60-metre-high arches crisscross the deck of the Juscelino Kubitschek Bridge in Brasília, which provides the letter J in our alphabetical countdown to Christmas. (more…) View the full article