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Product news: Austrian designer Robert Stadler’s update on the classic bentwood bistro chair by Thonet, synonymous with cafe culture since it appeared in the nineteenth century, has gone into production. (more…) View the full article

Director Max Hattler has turned a series of photos of housing estates in Hong Kong into repetitive animations to create his film Serial Parallels. Read more View the full article

Larch planks finished with matt black barn paint were used to clad this extension of a Victorian terrace in London, designed by architect Harry Thomson. Read more View the full article

Stout cylindrical towers that cars can fly inside and stacked landing pods are among the proposals that architects and engineers have imagined for Uber's fleet of taxi aircrafts, as plans for UberAir push ahead for 2020 launch. Read more View the full article

This week on Dezeen unpaid internships were back in the spotlight, as D&AD chairman Dick Powell made a speech advising young people to "work for nothing" in order to get a job in the creative industries, then later moved to defuse the controversy with a follow-up statement. Read on for more news plus Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Researchers have developed an algorithm to match refugees arriving in the US with the city where they are most likely to find employment and a good quality of life. Read more

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Philip Johnson was an impassioned supporter of Nazism, in which he found a "new international ideal", according to a new book by American journalist Marc Wortman. (more…) View the full article

Today on Dezeen Music Project we’re bringing you the sounds of Jamaica, via Germany, with this dub reggae track by Berlin-based artist Dubble Dubble. About Dezeen Music Project | More tracks | Submit your track View the full article

Intervention Architecture has refurbished and extended a semi-detached house in the Birmingham suburb of Moseley, adding a garden room clad with cedar battens. Read more

British designer Ewan Cashman has created a cement and wood floor lamp based on the shapes of spinning top toys he played with as a child. (more…) View the full article

A replica of the Palmyra Arch – a 2,000-year-old Syrian architectural landmark believed to have been destroyed by Islamic militant group ISIS – has been erected in London's Trafalgar Square. (more…) View the full article

Fashion designer Virgil Abloh has created a graffiti-covered furniture collection for Paris studio Galerie Kreo, which takes cues from brutalism and the urban landscape. Read more View the full article

Architecture projects from 68 different countries have been shortlisted for awards at this year's World Architecture Festival, including a concept for ever-expanding housing in Syria, a plant-covered hotel in Vietnam and a sprawling museum in Palestine. Read more View the full article

London designer Andy Martin used coloured resin for this series of tables that create visual effects. Read more View the full article

Canadian twins Byron and Dexter Peart, who founded leather brand WANT Les Essentiels, have turned away from fashion to redesign a resort and spa in Belize. Read more

Architects must urgently go beyond creating sustainable architecture that minimises damage to the planet and design buildings that help repair it, says Michael Pawlyn from Architects Declare. Read more

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with New London Architecture to give readers the chance to win one of five pairs of tickets to a lecture delivered by architecture collective Assemble later this month. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: A grain store-turned-hotel and an open-air lodge located on a wildlife reserve are among the projects to be shortlisted in this year's AHEAD MEA awards. Read more View the full article

Our latest captioned movie features modular structures designed by Ten Fold Engineering, which can be transported anywhere on a lorry and self-deployed at the touch of a button. Watch more one-minute movies › View the full article

Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron referenced 1920s interiors for the renovation of this bar and brasserie near its offices in Basel. (more...) View the full article

Revellers at a Tasmanian music festival were invited to cool off inside this wooden pavilion filled with Aesop products, designed by architecture studio Partners Hill (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

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

Dutch firm MVRDV has unveiled plans for an office block with an interactive mirrored facade in the city of Esslingen in southern Germany. Read 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

Milan 2014: architect Daniel Libeskind has designed a chandelier of hand-blown crystal glass shards for Czech brand Lasvit. (more...) View the full article