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Footwear brand Allbirds uses merino wool to manufacture the textile uppers of its Wool Runners shoes, which also feature laces made from recycled plastic bottles and insoles produced using castor bean oil. Read more

Japanese studio Tato Architects references the ad-hoc extensions of neighbouring buildings with the steel, concrete and wooden volumes that make up this house in Osaka, Japan (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: a competition will be launched next week to design a new Bauhaus Museum in Dessau, where the famous German art and design school was based between 1925 and 1932. (more…) View the full article

Archigram founder Peter Cook has completed his first project in the UK, a vibrant blue drawing studio with a tilted oculus for his former school, the Arts University Bournemouth (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Idaho-based architect Paul Hirzel has completed a house raised high above the ground to avoid surging waters and snake infestations in the rural town of Juliaetta (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A layer of grasses, herbs and flowers blankets the roof of this hump-shaped house near Reims, France, by architect Patrick Nadeau (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Tasked with building a treehouse in a garden without a tree, French studios Saperlipopette Les Architectes and Martial Marquet Architecture have created a wooden structure that instead perches on a wall (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Belgian studio Pascal François Architects has completed a two-storey house in rural Belgium that slots beneath the roof of an old stable block (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New Chinese Architecture is a new book spotlighting the country's emerging architectural talents, all of whom happen to be women. Author Austin Williams talks Dezeen through five of the most exciting architects and their projects. Read more

The concrete rooms of Jipyungzip, a guesthouse by BCHO Architects in South Korea, are sunk into a grassy shttps://admin.dezeen.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1485288&action=edit#edit_timestamplope with flat roofs that form terraces overlooking the sea. Read more View the full article

A controversial new airport is not the biggest threat to Peru's Sacred Valley, home to Machu Picchu, says Peruvian architect Jean Pierre Crousse. Read more

Lebanese architect Bernard Khoury has refurbished Beirut's underground bunker nightclub B018, adding spine-shaped lamps that double as dancing poles. Read more

US studios SHoP Architects and Gensler are among eight practices that have created concept designs of "skyports" for Uber, which will be hubs for both flying and ground-based taxi fleets. Read more

Wesleyan House Methodist International Church is a 21-storey high-rise church in Hong Kong, topped with a Sky Chapel with views across the city and its harbour. Read more View the full article

Four rows of sculptural concrete fins make up the brazenly brutalist facade of Preston Bus Station in Lancashire, England – the next project in Dezeen's series. (more...) View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2013: designer Christien Meindertsma has compiled photographs of hundreds of jumpers knitted by an elderly woman into a book and organised a flashmob in her honour (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Music: French director Hugo Moreno presents an animated urban landscape that blends ancient Mesopotamian and mid-century Modern architecture in this music video for Art Department's track Walls. (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

World Architecture Festival 2012: Dezeen is in Singapore for the fifth annual World Architecture Festival and today the winning designs in 12 of the project categories have been announced, including a library clad with firewood, a house covered in plants and three projects in Singapore. (more…) View the full article

A hole in this toothbrush directs water from the tap upwards like a drinking fountain for easy rinsing (+movie). (more…) View the full article

Archi-Union has surrounded the Light of Internet World Internet Conference Centre in Wuzhen, China, with pavilions that were built using robotic construction techniques. Read more View the full article

Rotterdam firm MVRDV has revealed plans to overhaul 600 hectares of Caen, the French city where William the Conqueror built his castle, creating housing, offices and numerous leisure attractions (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Product news: Dutch designers Studio Makkink & Bey have combined a desk, shelves and swivel chair to create a flexible workspace in a single item of furniture. (more...) View the full article

Discount supermarket chain Aldi is selling replica Eames chairs for £39.99 – a fraction of the £339 it costs to buy an authorised version of the chair. (more…) View the full article

More than 100 leaders in the field of robotics have signed an open letter calling on the United Nations to prevent a global arms race in autonomous lethal weapons. Read more View the full article

New York-based Israeli designer Ron Gilad has added a modular shelving system and an oval table to his TT furniture collection, which features surfaces that appear to hover unsupported within a metal frame. (more...) View the full article