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Icelandic product design graduate Búi Bjarmar Aðalsteinsson has created a Fly Factory that breeds insect larvae for human consumption. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: French architect Jean Nouvel unveiled a pair of leather and rubber boots for Italian shoe brand Ruco Line at the Interni Hybrid Architecture and Design exhibition in Milan this week. (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

Music: musician and director Kamiel Rongen mixed water and oil with paint, sugar, and even an air freshener to create a series of misty surreal landscapes for this music video (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Japanese firm Suppose Design Office has completed a car showroom near Tokyo, featuring a simple wooden facade and a glazed wall that fades from black to transparent (+ slideshow). (more…)

News: London firm Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has applied for planning permission to construct a 27-hectare headquarters for Google in London's King's Cross. (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

Brands that don't embrace the circular economy will go out of business, according to Dutch designer Richard Hutten. Read more

This holiday home by Stuttgart firm Yonder is designed to look like a traditional Alpine house, but with a huge chasm carved out of its middle (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This clothes rack by German designer Meike Langer features a copper arc with a hinged timber frame, allowing it to slot into the corner of a room. (more...) View the full article

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Richard Hutten Studio, Van Alen Institute and Alex Cochrane Architects in London, whose projects include the renovation of a royal Victorian boathouse in Berkshire (pictured). This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Nova of California, Foster + Partners, Heatherwick Studio and more... (more…) View the full article

A black-painted wood structure separates spaces inside an old industrial building in Toronto that local firm StudioAC designed as office space for a visual effects company. Read more View the full article

Movie: the third tour we filmed at the Royal College of Art graduate show features work from the Innovation Design Engineering course, including a candyfloss machine for recycling plastic and a bicycle for recycling copper from electrical wires. (more…) View the full article

Australian studio CplusC Architectural Workshop has extended a house in a Sydney suburb so that it looks like a doll’s house with the back wall taken off (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Four-storey-tall holographs of models were projected onto a moving screen of water for American brand Polo Ralph Lauren's womenswear show during New York Fashion Week (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Artist Joe Sweeney has installed a phone box on the English coast that invites people to share their feelings about Brexit, in an interactive public artwork called +44. Read more

Buyers can borrow pieces of furniture from this pop-up shop, which online sharing platform Harth has opened in north London. Read more View the full article

Competition: we’re giving readers a chance to win one of two pairs of tickets to the Memory Marathon, a series of talks and discussions taking place from 12 to 14 October close to the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (above) in London’s Kensington Gardens. (more…) View the full article

This vertiginous viewing platform in the Canadian Rockies was designed by Calgary firm Sturgess Architecture with a strengthened glass floor that provides a view straight down to the valley below. (more...) View the full article

Wind-catching towers emerge from the circular rippled roof of this brick and wood school building in Koudougou, Burkina Faso, which was designed by the architect of this year's Serpentine Pavilion, Diébédo Francis Kéré. Read more View the full article

Zaha Hadid has completed a streamlined concrete and glass building for three government departments in Montpellier, France (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

OMA's research studio AMO installed a domestic interior filled with angular furniture and make-believe windows as the setting to present Prada's Autumn Winter 2013 collection during Milan Men's Fashion Week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The students and tutor of an architecture workshop in Ljubljana have built a wedge-shaped wooden pavilion containing a tiny pool of water and logs acting as stepping stones. (more…) View the full article

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The United Nations High Commission for Refugees is working with MIT to develop design strategies that enable refugees to solve their own problems rather than relying on solutions provided by aid agencies (+ interview). (more…) View the full article