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The American Institute of Architects has called on members of the profession to sign an open letter to president Donald Trump, which outlines the organisation's "outright opposition" to his policies on climate change. Read more

Two prototype models of a gaming laptop with three screens have been stolen from the CES tech show in Las Vegas. Read more View the full article

Milan 2014: London designer Lee Broom will launch these glass and marble vessels during a dinner party in the window of a Milanese design boutique next week. (more...) View the full article

German fashion designer Jule Waibel has turned her intricate pleated paper dresses into steam press templates for wearable fabric garments that expand and contract as the wearer moves. (more...) View the full article

Architecture office AR Design Studio has converted an old stable block in Hampshire, England, into a three-bedroom family house (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Los Angeles clothing brand Lunya has created its New York store with vintage and contemporary finds to decorate zones as if they were a dining room, bedroom and living area. Read more View the full article

The vast open-plan interior of this São Paulo bookshop by Studio MK27 was designed to encourage shoppers to stay and read the books they've purchased or to simply hang out with friends (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Architect Hiroyuki Miyake used a traditional English bricklaying pattern for the ceramic tiles on the walls of this beauty salon in Toyokawa, Japan. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: German brand Grohe has launched its latest collection of ceramic bathroom products, featuring minimalist and "urban-inspired" shapes. Read more View the full article

Eliminating plastic from the seas is not possible and instead new materials need to be developed to replace plastic, according to the founder of Parley for the Oceans. Read more

This maritime museum in the Netherlands by Dutch studio Mecanoo features reclaimed wooden cladding and a zig-zagging roof that reference the gabled houses of the surrounding hamlet (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Movie: the final tour we filmed at this year’s Royal College of Art graduate show features projects from the Architecture course including a high-rise hotel growing tropical fruit and an insect-powered office tower. (more…) View the full article

Kaws' eight-metre high sculptures skim the ceiling of the Yuz Museum in Shanghai, which is currently hosting the artist's first retrospective in Asia and features exhibition designs by Aranda\Lasch. Read more View the full article

Red clay normally used for flower pots and roof tiles has been made into lamps by Slovakian designer Tomas Kral. (more...) View the full article

Design Miami: a hanging cabinet covered in leather tassels and a hammock inspired by pasta ribbons are among the objects created by designers including Fernando and Humberto Campana and Atelier Oï for French fashion house Louis Vuitton (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A wooden staircase cantilevers over the central atrium that architect Andrew Pilkington has cut through the first floor of a Victorian building in west London to transform two small apartments into one large residence (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

White concrete is popular with architects thanks to its pure, uniform appearance, offering a less brutal alternative to board-marked and raw concrete. It is created by combining materials with lower iron, chromium and manganese levels. Recent examples of projects with white concrete include Daniel Libeskind's proposal for an art museum in Lithuania, a tiny chapel in rural Austria and three additions to a pair of 18th century French mansions (pictured). See more architecture using white concrete » View the full article

Underwear adorned with artificial pubic hair and a skirt padded to look like love handles feature in this collection of garments by design student Debora Dax. (more…)

Amin Taha's architecture studio Groupwork has collaborated with structural engineer Webb Yates to design a conceptual 30-storey stone office block that would be cheaper and more sustainable than concrete or steel equivalents. Read more View the full article

Pazdigrad Primary School in Split, Croatia has been designed by architects X3M to include public squares, one of which is painted bright yellow Read more View the full article

A long bright corridor punctuated by three wood-lined skylights spans this apartment in Lisbon, Portugal, which was been refurbished by local office Aurora Arquitectos. Read more View the full article

American architecture studio Thomas Phifer and Partners included a pointy chapel among the tiny black buildings that form this residence in a clearing in Upstate New York. Read more

Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten of Dutch firm OMA have been unveiled as the designers of the 2017 MPavilion, an annual commission billed at Australia's answer to the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. Read more View the full article

Architect Daniel Zamarbide worked with Leopold Banchini to design a pared-back Lisbon house with glass-walled rooms overlooking a full-height living space, as his own home. Read more

News: American studio CODA has won this year's MoMA/PS1 Young Architects Program competition and will insert a wall made from skateboard offcuts into the courtyard of the PS1 Contemporary Art Centre in New York. (more...) View the full article