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Two shipping containers are joined together and topped by an angular polycarbonate extension in this conceptual design for low-cost housing by Peruvian firm TRS Studio. Read more

Dezeen promotion: The interiors of the Scope Langsuan residential building have been designed by Thomas Juul-Hansen, his first project in Thailand. Read more

This week we've hand-picked four exciting positions on Dezeen Jobs for industrial and product designers, including vacancies at design studios Industrial Facility and Stellar Works. Read more View the full article

In our latest competition, we're offering one reader and five friends a three-night stay in the Boat House cabin at Cabü by the Sea in Kent. Read more View the full article

Dutch architect Chris Collaris has completed this property in Ontario, Canada using stone sourced from a nearby quarry, wood from the building site, and vegetation from surrounding fields for the green roof. Read more View the full article

Basketball player Stephen Curry and sports brand Under Armour have created a sneaker influenced by architect David Adjaye's Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Read more View the full article

Smart-home technology and innovative cars were overshadowed at CES by tiny robots designed to be human companions. We've rounded up eight of the kitschiest offerings at this year's event. Read more View the full article

Redbridge School in Lisbon by ARX Portugal is formed of two wood-framed buildings clad with metal, one featuring a playground on its roof. Read more View the full article

Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a communications manager at Selldorf Architects, which restored the original west-to-east orientation of the Clark Art Institute in Massachusetts to provide the institute space to house a permanent collection (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

German designer Clemens Weisshaar argues that cutting edge software from race car engineering and hypersonic aircraft will underpin design in the future in this movie filmed at Dezeen Live during 100% Design. (more...) View the full article

Affordable developer BoKlok, which is co-owned by IKEA and Skanska, has signed a deal with Worthing council in West Sussex to build low-cost housing in the south of England. Read more

Opinion: in his latest column, Kieran Long argues that product designers should learn from architects and tackle civic issues like surveillance and security rather than "hide in their studios making something lovely." (more...) View the full article

The designers of a shape-shifting house have now developed a folding table that swings open to change shape from a square to an equilateral triangle. (more...) View the full article

From 2019, all new Volvo cars will have electric or hybrid engines, the Swedish auto manufacturer announced today. Read more View the full article

Swedish architects Claesson Koivisto Rune will present a kit-of-parts for a prefabricated Scandinavian house in Milan this April (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Swiss furniture brand Vitra is launching a limited-edition version of Charles and Ray Eames' Lounge Chair to commemorate its 60 years in production. Read more View the full article

Coming to London for the Dezeen Awards ceremony on 27 November? Here is a guide to the best architecture, design and art shows in town. Read more View the full article

French designer Dorian Renard has applied traditional glassblowing techniques to a series of plastic furniture and sculptural pieces, in a bid to present the maligned material in a new light. Read more View the full article

News: construction is set to begin next month on the world’s tallest building in Changsha, China, which will be completed in just 90 days. (more…) View the full article

Opinion: in this week's column, Sam Jacob argues against the resurrection of Crystal Palace in London and urges us to "resist the pull of loss and nostalgia". (more...) View the full article

Eindhoven-based designer Thomas Vailly explores turning sunflower crop waste into bio-materials to make sustainable products from insulation panels to iPhone cases. Read more

German industrial designer Konstantin Grcic has created a series of futuristic scenarios as part of the largest solo exhibition of his work at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

German architecture office Auer Weber has extended an astronomic research facility near Munich by adding interconnected cylinders with hollow centres and curvy corridors raised up on stilts (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Coming to London this summer? Visit us at our pop-up watch store and design emporium Dezeen Super Store, which opens at 38 Monmouth Street, London WC2 on 30 June and stays open throughout the Olympic Games and the London Design Festival until 30 September. (more…) View the full article

Sou Fujimoto, Nicolas Laisné and Dimitri Roussel have won the competition to build a new mixed-use development in Paris with their design called Vertical Village. Read more View the full article