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Campaigning for equality in architecture is at its peak, says Christine Murray, so why is the number of women in the profession still going down? Read more

Five years ago this week, Zaha Hadid unveiled designs for a private house with a lookout tower in a forest near Moscow and OMA were commissioned to design a 36-storey residential tower in Singapore. The whole Dezeen team was on holiday (there were fewer of us back then) so we featured projects from the first book by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs, Twenty-First Century Design, including Marcel Wanders’ Airborne Snotty Vases, and the Millau Viaduct by Foster & Partners. See all our stories from March 2007 » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo has won a competition to masterplan a commercial district in Shenzhen, China, with its design for 12 stepped skyscrapers built around a park featuring a raised path and pools. Read more View the full article

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…)

Dezeen hosts a series of innovative daily live shows at 100% Design from 19-22 September with guests including trend forecaster Li Edelkoort, designers Katrin Olina (above), Philippe Malouin, Benjamin Hubert and Asif Khan, and writers and critics including Sam Jacob and Daniel Charny. (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

Architectural visualiser Alex Hogrefe has imagined a precarious concrete retreat cut into the edge of a remote clifftop in Iceland, as part of a series of tutorials in creating renderings (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

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

Artist Tom Sachs has updated his Nike Mars Yard trainers, which are based on shoes worn by astronauts in space. Read more View the full article

Designed in Hackney: Dalston designers Kay + Stemmer present this collection of benches, side tables and stools for Shoreditch design brand SCP at MOST in Milan this week. (more…) View the full article

See inside the Foster + Partners Bloomberg HQ, which won the 2018 Stirling Prize, in this movie created by RIBA. Read more View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a senior exhibition designer at the V&A museum, which this year staged the first retrospective exhibition of pioneering engineer Ove Arup (pictured). See more stories about the V&A, or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Artist Katrien Vanderlinden has painted colourful shapes inspired by toy bricks onto a basketball court in the Belgian city of Aalst. Read more View the full article

A lockable wardrobe and twin-sized bed figure in this modular sleeping unit, which was conceived by architecture firm Perkins and Will in response to the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles. Read more View the full article

This tiny gabled pharmacy is squeezed into a narrow alleyway between two towering apartment blocks in Osaka. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture practice Timmins + Whyte has added a double-height gabled extension to a 19th-century house in Melbourne, illuminating its formerly light-starved living spaces. Read more View the full article

We've created a Pinterest board dedicated to shutters, including a Spanish residence with bi-folding translucent shutters and a home with moveable corrugated metal panels in Vietnam. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › View the full article

Milan 2013: British designer Jasper Morrison unveils an outdoor chair for Spanish brand Kettal at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile today. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: interior-finishes company Woven Image has collaborated with designer Michael Young to launch a collection of acoustic panels featuring "technical decorations" based on algorithms. Read more View the full article

We’ve added a new board to Pinterest compiling all the best photos of kitchens from the pages of Dezeen. We now have over 3000 followers on Pinterest – join in here. See all of our stories about kitchens. View the full article

In this final movie in the series filmed by Dezeen for the Stepney Green Design Collection, London design brand Hulger’s creative director Nicolas Roope talks about the “thriving community of creative people” in east London. (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

Mesh Labs is launching Kosmos, a collection of ceramic tableware, as part of the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read 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

CEBRA has completed a cave-like prayer centre in Abu Dhabi housed in a landscape of jagged, rock-like forms. Read more View the full article