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In the second announcement from Rem Koolhaas’ office today, OMA have unveiled their designs to convert a 5400 square metre 1960s pavilion in Stalinist-era Gorky Park in Moscow into a new venue for the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture. (more…) View the full article

London-based lighting brand Plumen has partnered with 3D-printing specialist Batch.works to develop a range of shades for its LED bulbs that are printed on-demand using recycled plastic. Read more View the full article

Once illuminated, these faceted grey 3D-printed lamps reveal colourful interiors derived from everyday images (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese design studio Nendo will create an immersive environment for more than 160 prints and drawings by Dutch artist M.C. Escher at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne this December. Read more View the full article

Paintings and sculptures collected by the late Mexican architect Luis Barragán are showcased on a stepped wooden platform at his Mexico City house. Read more View the full article

IKEA was a prominent fixture in the news this week as they released their first skateboard, while reports emerged that the Swedish furniture company were considering converting a Brutalist building in Connecticut into a hotel. Read more View the full article

Japanese studio MDS has completed a countryside retreat with south-facing rooms in the foothills of the Yatsugatake mountains (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The 77 individuals who lost their lives during the 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway will be commemorated by this competition-winning intervention by Swedish artist Jonas Dahlberg to sever a strip of headland from the coastline near Oslo. (more...) View the full article

A glazed cut through a barn-style gabled house set into a hill in rural Poland by Kropka Studio has views of its mountain surroundings. Read more View the full article

Movie: in this movie filmed by Dezeen at today’s preview of Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary at the V&A museum in London, Thomas Heatherwick demonstrates the machine that dispenses guides to the exhibition from huge rolls of paper, inspired by newspaper printing presses. (more…) View the full article

Plans by former footballers Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs to build a luxury hotel and shopping centre in Manchester may be scuppered as the Twentieth Century Society seeks emergency heritage listing for a synagogue on the site. Read more View the full article

Fish with migration paths blocked by a dam can be shot over the top via the Whooshh Passage Portal technology after being sorted by artificial intelligence. Read more

Graduate shows 2016: this prototype tool by Royal College of Art graduate George Philip Wright can transform users' voices into drums, guitars and other musical instruments (+movie). (more…) View the full article

Climate change is likely to devastate our planet, says Snøhetta co-founder Kjetil Trædal Thorsen. In the second part of an exclusive interview, he tells Dezeen it is "absolutely possible" to create fully CO2 negative buildings. Read more View the full article

The seventh entry in our A-Zdvent calendar is the Garden Egg chair by Hungarian designer Peter Ghyczy, which demonstrated new techniques for plastic production in the late 1960s. (more…) View the full article

Foster + Partners has launched a sustainability manifesto that outlines its methodology for designing buildings that will go beyond current environmental certification schemes to meet the demands of the Paris Agreement. Read more View the full article

The revamps of two major public spaces - Place de la République in Paris and Times Square in New York - completed this week. Our Dezeen Music Project track of the week plus more architecture and design news follow. (more...) View the full article

News: architect Zaha Hadid has designed the interior for a hotel inside her Opus development in Dubai, which will feature sculptural balconies and her installation for this year's London Design Festival (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The latest collection from Chinese furniture brand Maisondada includes a seating series that references a David Bowie track and an armchair inspired by sumo wrestling. Read more View the full article

One building is the inverse of another at this pair of museums that architect Steven Holl has designed for a new city quarter of Tianjin, China. (more...) View the full article

Tickets for Dezeen Day are selling fast, with just 20 tickets remaining at the reduced early-bird price of £250. Read more

With design fairs being cancelled or postponed due to coronavirus, Dezeen is announcing Virtual Milan, a digital platform that will allow brands to launch their products. Read more View the full article

News: construction is now underway on a building designed by Vietnamese firm Vo Trong Nghia Architects for a technical university near Hanoi, featuring a chequerboard facade of concrete slabs and tree-filled balconies (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Flowering vines will sprawl across the facades of these four tower blocks underway in Casablanca by French studio Maison Edouard François, creating a series of brightly coloured vertical gardens. (more...) View the full article

Built-in furniture and storage elements made from MDF feature inside this Barcelona apartment, which has been overhauled by local architecture practice MH.AP Studio. Read more View the full article