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The tender for President Donald Trump's Mexico border wall has been amended, with more details added about the design requirements and the deadline for submissions extended. Read more View the full article

An installation by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama originally created for the 1966 Venice Biennale has been reconstructed near Philip Johnson's iconic Glass House in Connecticut (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Most Loved: in this exclusive movie, Eindhoven designer Piet Hein Eek says the furniture he started making from recycled timber in 1989 took off because it stood out against the uniformity of other products. (more…) View the full article

CF Møller Architects has completed two office buildings on the Lego campus in Billund, Denmark, which include giant building blocks in the facades. Read more View the full article

Paris' famous Périphérique ring road could have its car lanes slashed by half and replaced by a playground in the switch to driverless cars, says Carlo Ratti. Read more

Large pitched roofs top the volumes of this Hawaiian house, which US firm Walker Warner Architects designed to "strike a balance between modernity and tradition". Read more View the full article

Bright red walls contrast with vivid green lawns at this art and culture centre in Portugal by Lisbon architecture firm Future Architecture Thinking (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Children's suitcase brand Trunki has lost its legal battle with Hong Kong rival Kiddee, after the UK's Supreme Court ruled that design rights had not been infringed. (more…) View the full article

Connective joints are "design projects in their own right", according to the curators of the huge U-Joints exhibition during Milan design week. Read more View the full article

Istanbul Design Biennial 2012: design duo Kram/Weisshaar used custom software to adapt and strengthen the branch-like metal joints of this collection of 3D printed furniture, currently on show at the Istanbul Design Biennial (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Steel loops of varying size can be twisted and contorted to make a variety of shapes in this customisable lighting system. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the deadline for submitting architecture and design projects to this year's A' Design Awards and Competition is the end of this month. (more...) View the full article

Spanish office Taller Básico de Arquitectura designed the facade of this university complex in Zaragoza as a layer of overlapping white scales (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architecture studio MAPA borrowed elements and colours typically used on colonial-style Chilean houses to create this bright red residence in a winemaking region near Santiago. (more...) View the full article

The pursuit of infinite economic growth is driving climate breakdown and producing ecologically toxic architecture, argues Phineas Harper, one of the chief curators of the Oslo Architecture Triennale. Read more

Polish designer Kamila Rudnicka has created an artificial insemination tool that doubles up as a sex toy, in the hopes of restoring pleasure to an often clinical process. Read 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

The upper floors are stacked at right angles across garages at this fire station in the Netherlands by René van Zuuk Architekten. (more…) View the full article

Three internal courtyards in a timber-clad bungalow designed by Osaka-based practice Arbol in Akashi, Japan, provide space for growing food and drying clothes. Read more

A steel-framed vertical garden cuts through the centre of this brick warehouse-style block in Oberhausen, Germany, topped by a translucent urban greenhouse for agricultural research with a zigzagging roofline. Read more View the full article

Canadian company Knectek Labs has automated an often messy and unhygienic part of household waste collection with the Townew bin, which seals and changes its own bags. Read more View the full article

Competition: Dezeen and Strelka Press have teamed up to give readers the opportunity to win new ebooks featuring critical writing on architecture and design by authors including Sam Jacob, Justin McGuirk and Alexandra Lange. (more…) View the full article

Toronto-based illustrator Tom Ngo has updated his drawing series of "architectural absurdities" with additions including a building made of stairs and an impossible lighthouse. (more...) View the full article

London-based designers Tino Seubert and Theodora Alfredsdottir combined wavy, moulded plywood with off-the-shelf aluminium tubes to create this modular lighting collection. Read more View the full article

High-tech was the last major architecture style of the 20th century. This overview by Owen Hopkins kicks off our series exploring the high-tech movement. Read more View the full article