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Slideshow: following our earlier story about a university in the Moroccan desert with a sandy red exterior, here’s a school of technology in the nearby town of Guelmim with walls covered in the same grainy render. (more…) View the full article

Wooden clothes feature in Icelandic fashion designer Sruli Recht's Autumn Winter 2013 menswear collection. (more...) View the full article

Canadian firm ZAS has completed a glass and aluminium-clad public library in suburban Toronto, which has a sculptural form influenced by a local rollercoaster (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A watering can and an action figure were among the everyday objects scanned and distorted by designer Matthew Plummer Fernandez to create these faceted and richly coloured 3D printed vessels. (more…) View the full article

Eric Parry Architects has been granted planning permission for 1 Undershaft, a 73-storey skyscraper that will dwarf The Gherkin and The Cheesegrater to become the tallest building in London's financial district. Read more View the full article

A fragmented frame disrupts the linear form of this Italian house in Le Marche, which Simone Subissati Architects has designed to immerse its occupants in the landscape. Read more

Architecture studio YTA has used traditional Brazilian Cobogó bricks to create screens that help keep this home in São Paulo naturally lit and well ventilated. Read more

This year's graduates from the Pratt Institute department of fashion presented collections that included a structured wicker skirt and oversized soft rabbits in New York last week. Read more View the full article

Drivers crossing the border from Canada into the USA at Calais, Maine, would never know that there’s a tranquil rock garden sandwiched between the checkpoint buildings designed by New York firm Robert Siegel Architects. (more…) View the full article

A dormer window provides a first-floor observatory at this gabled lodge in the Czech Republic by A1 Architects of Prague. (more…) View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers are debating Patrik Schumacher's suggestion that architecture teachers use students to advance their own agendas rather than teach skills for the real world. Read more

Designers Rikkert Paauw and Jet van Zwieten of Foundation Projects transform refuse skips and their contents into small buildings. (more…) View the full article

Swedish architect and designer Mia Cullin has produced a range of benches and stools with adjustable seats modelled on traditional wooden peg furniture and piano stools. (more...) View the full article

News: every electrical device in the home will be linked to the internet within a decade, according to the CEO of connected home products brand Nest (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

German designer Philipp Weber's glassblowing pipe with valves like a trumpet won the New Talents Award at DMY Berlin last week (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2012: London designers Doshi Levien presented this dressing table for BD Barcelona Design at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in April. (more…) View the full article

Chilean architects 2DM twisted the upper volume of this blackened timber house away from its stilted base to offer a variety of views to the sea in Chile's Cardenal Caro Province. Read more View the full article

Burning Man has acknowledged the carbon emissions it causes and called on attendees to consider alternatives to burning, as part of a plan to become carbon negative by 2030. Read more View the full article

Australian studio BoardGrove Architects uses three tones of peach to define different zones within this revamped shared studio space in Melbourne, Australia. Read more

A large public square is at the heart of Danish firm BIG's proposed overhaul of Miami Beach Convention Center, home to the annual Art Basel/Miami and Design Miami trade fairs (+ slideshow + movie). (more...) View the full article

Barcelona-based Nomo Studio has arranged a collection of bright white cubes to create Villa Catwalk on the island the the Mediterranean island of Menorca. Read more

In this week's Dezeen Weekly, readers react angrily to the suggestion architects could be replaced by AI and analyse the reasons behind a fall in profits at London's Design Museum. Sign up to Dezeen Weekly › View the full article

Brooklyn studio UM Project has created a collection of colourful mallets for the shop at the newly reopened Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. (more…) View the full article

Sergey Makhno has overhauled his duplex apartment in Kiev with the intention of creating a "a bridge between Japanese minimalism and Ukrainian aesthetics." Read more View the full article

Designer Simon Pengelly and Boss Design's Mark Barrell explain how their new collection of office furniture can be used to create open and flexible workplaces, in this movie Dezeen produced for the brand. Read more View the full article