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Architcture practice. LUO Studio has extended the abandoned foundations and concrete columns of a residential project with a timber-framed upper storey to create a community centre in Yuanheguan, China. Read more View the full article

A terracotta-coloured earth wall bounding the edge of a research complex in Pune, India, vanishes into an inclining hillside. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Hollywood Hills' hiking trails informed the verdant gardens and earthen interiors of this hotel along Los Angeles' Sunset Strip. Read more

London designer Tom Dixon will launch a range of iridescent stoneware pendant lights at next month’s London Design Festival. (more…) View the full article

The design world flocks to Milan next month and designer Craig Alun Smith plans to splatter the city with bird poo in every colour of the rainbow by planting dyed bird feeders around the Piazza del Duomo. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Projects by Aldo Rossi, Paul Rudolph and Le Corbusier show how buildings on stilts can be used to covertly introduce public space onto private land, according to the curators of the Luxembourg Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale. Read more View the full article

The luxury autonomous vehicles of the future might offer customers a privileged "fast lane" through crowded city streets, according to Bentley's head of design Stefan Sielaff. (more…) View the full article

The first part of Heatherwick Studio's renovation of a former grain silo building in Cape Town's harbour has been completed, with the opening of a hotel featuring bulging windows. Read more View the full article

A penthouse apartment is being built inside Herzog & de Meuron's recently completed philharmonic hall in Hamburg, at a cost of £6.9 million for an anonymous client. Read more View the full article

Over 1000 inflated and illuminated latex gloves appeared to reach out from the surface of a French lake in this installation by Spanish lighting designers Luzinterruptus (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Italian architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas have completed a school for hotel management in Montepellier, France, clad in anodized aluminum triangles and punctured by 5000 unique triangular windows. (more…) View the full article

Chinese automaker Geely has launched a new car brand with sharable locks and an open platform designed to make its vehicles "the most connected in the world". Read more View the full article

New Chinese car company Lynk & Co has added an SUV to its range of vehicles targeting the sharing economy. Read more View the full article

Chinese automotive brand Lynk & Co is set to launch a subscription service in Europe in 2020, which will disrupt the car industry like "Uber has changed the taxi industry", according to company CEO Alain Visser. Read more

This building by Australian architects Lyons in Melbourne combines a family home with a museum. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A housing block by architecture studio Farrells, currently under construction in west London, is aiming to be the first housing in the city to accept delivery of packages by drone. Read more

Lyrics and graphic visualisations are shown on the outside of this speaker, designed by Japanese studio Six Inc to sync with the song that's playing (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

A theatre in Belfast with a faceted timber interior is another of the six buildings shortlisted for the 2012 Stirling Prize and was designed by Irish architects O’Donnell + Tuomey (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Shiny corrugated metal clads the two cascading stacks of apartments that make up this block in Paris by architect Stephane Maupin. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American firm M-Rad has created a compact, movable cabin with design elements to accommodate people with disabilities, including a shower with a seat and doorways wide enough for a wheelchair to pass through. Read more

California-based design and architecture studio M-Rad proposes using the natural antimicrobial properties of copper alloy to create a travelling Covid-19 testing unit. Read more View the full article

Product news: these sofas with exaggerated seams by Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola are now in production with Italian furniture brand Moroso. (more...) View the full article

A house once occupied by Mexican communist party founder M. N. Roy has been converted into a nightclub by French architects Emmanuel Picault and Ludwig Godefroy. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: UK retailer Marks & Spencer has hired Dutch designer Marcel Wanders to create a range of gifts and homewares, the Financial Times reports. Read the article | All our stories about Marcel Wanders </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Toulouse architects BAST have renovated a derelict house in the French city by adding a corrugated steel extension that contrasts with the existing masonry (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article