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News: consumers can save money by printing products at home rather than shopping for them, according to Janne Kyttanen, co-founder of design studio Freedom of Creation and creative director of 3D printer company 3D Systems (+ interview). (more…) View the full article

Pale dresses and jumpsuits were presented against a backdrop of orchid-covered walls at fashion house Dior's haute couture show in Paris (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2012: these knobbly seats by Belgian designer Maarten De Ceulaer are on show at Ventura Lambrate in Milan this week. (more…) View the full article

The dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Texas has resigned over a new state law that will allow students to carry guns on campus. (more…) View the full article

Chinese designers Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu discuss the disappearing village cultures of China in their lecture at Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair 2019. Watch the livestream here from 12.00pm UK time. Read more

Patrick Blanc, the inventor of living walls, has completed his latest vertical garden, covering the side of a five-storey Parisian block with waves of 7600 plants (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A house by Studio Puisto in Finland, sits between a lake and a dense spruce forest and is clad in black-oiled wood and topped by sloping zinc roofs. Read more View the full article

Central Saint Martins graduate Qiang Huang has created a range of unfinished furniture bases that need to be completed by adding components from discarded shared bikes. Read more

London studio Loop.pH mimicked the molecular structures of carbon atoms to generate the form of this illuminated wiry dome (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Fancy paddling on an unguarded rooftop? Or doing lengths in a structure cantilevered from a skyscraper? Following the popularity of yesterday's house with an infinity pool on the roof, here are some of the scariest swimming spots from Dezeen's architecture archives (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New York 2016: new Australian brand VUUE has produced a collection of furniture designed to be used flexibly for both indoor and outdoor spaces (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This captioned movie shows catwalk footage of Central Saint Martins graduate Fredrik Tjærandsen's colourful bubble outfits, which have become a viral sensation around the world. Read more

German designers Elmgreen and Dragset have installed a sculpture that looks like an U-shaped swimming pool outside the Miami Beach Convention Center. Read more View the full article

Milan 2013: London designer Philippe Malouin is exhibiting furniture built from slats of two-by-four, sand-cast chairs and a spinning candle at the ProjectB gallery in Milan. (more...) View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers are in disagreement over the American Institute of Architects publicly protesting against an order that federal buildings be built in "classical architecture style." Read more View the full article

The ground appears to have fallen away beneath this minimal house, designed by British architect Jonathan Burlow in Kent. Read more View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: artist Lucy McRae explains how she plans to vacuum-pack visitors at the Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition in September to prepare their body for long-haul space travel. (more...) View the full article

Dutch design studio Waarmakers has used standard cardboard tubing to create a ceiling light that can be assembled from its own packaging (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Developer Barratt Homes has promised to cover £2 million of work on a high-rise block in Croydon, south London, which failed cladding safety tests after the Grenfell Tower fire. Read more View the full article

The final extract from our Book of Ideas selected by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs this week is a 24-hour performance involving two janitors constantly sweeping lines of rubbish to represent the hand of a clock. (more…) View the full article

Benjamin + Beauchamp Architects has renovated CFA Voysey's Winsford Cottage Hospital in Devon, England, and turned it into a holiday home for the Landmark Trust charity. Read more View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers are concerned for the planet, and festival goers at Burning Man. Read more View the full article

The UK's iconic red phone boxes are being repurposed for a more contemporary telecommunications need: mobile handset repairs. (more…) View the full article

A white steel cross encased by glass forms a display for spectacles at this shop in Seoul's Gangnam district by local studio Nordic Bros Design Community (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival 2013: designer Philippe Malouin built an analogue 3D printer to create moulds from piles of sugar for this range of plates and bowls (+ movie). (more...) View the full article