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Product news: ten metres of electrical cord are coiled around to form the shade of this pendant lamp by Italian designer Nicolò Barlera. (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen, IKEA revealed its new furniture that can be assembled without screws and BIG launched its own in-house engineering department. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio Tonkin Liu has converted a barn in the English county of Yorkshire into a house featuring a double-height library and a gallery space flanked at either end by huge windows. Read more View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Conran & Company, Tom Dixon and rAndom International, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with twentytwentyone, Hulger and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow feature: following the news that Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer has died aged 104, here’s a look back at some of his best-known projects from around São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, documented by Brazilian photographer Pedro Kok. (more…) View the full article

British designer Ross Lovegrove has installed a silver spaceship in the rafters of a railway station in Lille, France. (more…) View the full article

This year's RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist, modular sex toys and a proposal to elevate airport runways among Stockholm's rooftops (pictured) feature in Dezeen Mail issue 262. There's also the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 262 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Architect and MIT professor Carlo Ratti stokes the surveillance debate with his biennale exhibition, which is set in a working train station in China and actively uses facial-recognition technology. Read more View the full article

Apple has joined the list of donors who have pledged to support restoration of the fire-damaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, with total donations now exceeding €600 million. Read more

The coronavirus has exposed fundamental problems with our healthcare systems that we should not forget once the pandemic passes, warns Reinier de Graaf in a letter to the present from the future. Read more View the full article

Japanese designers Nendo have built an enormous woodland nesting box with 78 entrances for birds on one side and one big door for humans on the other (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week the UK’s architecture watchdog was forced to apologise for saying that Renzo Piano and Daniel Libeskind are “not entitled to be described” as architects, while designer Andy Martin angered a number of Dezeen readers by unveiling a concept bike that many thought “goes against structural logic” (above). (more…) View the full article

Design collective Assemble and a team of volunteers have constructed a temporary theatre in West Sussex, England, out of scaffolding, chipboard and plastic pond liner (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architect Alexis Dournier puts a new spin on Balinese vernacular in his three Uluwatu Surf Villas, at a retreat billed as a paradise for surfers. Read more View the full article

Business news: German publishing house Gestalten has entered into voluntary insolvency after losing money on a concept store in Berlin. (more…) View the full article

More than 20 Italian companies produced custom furniture for the Casa Flora holiday apartment, which aims to bring contemporary design to the canals of Venice. Read more View the full article

The Royal Institute of British Architects has published the Sustainable Outcomes Guide to help its members and the wider architecture industry avert the climate disaster. Read more View the full article

As part of Virtual Design Festival, we're calling on readers everywhere to send us short video clips with their messages to the world. Read more View the full article

British architect Norman Foster has revealed that if he could visit any building from history, it would be Crystal Palace, which he cites as a major influence on high-tech architecture. Read more View the full article

This year marked 100 years since the Bauhaus was founded. To celebrate the occasion we've selected 10 designs related to the school that would be ideal gifts. Read more View the full article

Prefabricated housing company Koto has designed a cabin-like ADU, or Accessory Dwelling Unit, that can be delivered to sites in San Jose, California in two weeks. Read more View the full article

Curators Edouard Cabay and Margherita Del Grosso led a workshop during the New Generations architecture festival in Genoa to produce this wooden installation resembling the shapes of ship sails (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

We're heading to Arizona for this week's roundup of American houses from different states, where a rammed-earth retreat near the Mexican border and a white concrete house in the desert are among our top five (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Grafton Architects has been selected to design a new faculty building for the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in Holborn, seeing off a shortlist of prestigious firms. (more…) View the full article

The Hudson Yards development in New York and a Texas art centre by David Adjaye are among the top 10 architecture projects in the US this year, selected by US editor Eleanor Gibson for our review of 2019. Read more View the full article