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News: work is about to start on a high-density, car-free “satellite city” for 80,000 people that will be built from scratch in a rural location close to Chengdu and later replicated in other parts of China. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Day generated eight tonnes of carbon emissions, according to a "quick and dirty" environmental audit of the conference. Read more View the full article

An art museum in a hollowed-out grain silo, South Korea's answer to the High Line and a high-rise inspired by Chinese landscape paintings are among the best buildings set to complete in 2017, selected by Dezeen editor Amy Frearson. Read more View the full article

New York's Architecture and Design Film Festival founder has picked out five screenings to get in the diary ahead of the event's opening next week, including movies that explore the lives and works of architect Denise Scott Brown, Bauhaus educator László Moholy-Nagy and 20th-century architect Bruce Goff. Read more

Graphic designer Neville Brody has reworked the Royal College of Art’s house font by Margaret Calvert as part of the London institution’s rebrand. (more…) View the full article

Opinion: Nest's intelligently connected thermostat is a surface solution for a much deeper problem in cities like London – we need innovation in services not surfaces, says Dan Hill. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen's Face to Face podcast series continues with a conversation with Dutch industrial designer Hella Jongerius, who explains how she grew up on a tomato farm and discovered her creative ability when she took an evening course in carpentry. Read more View the full article

Chilean studio Apio Arquitectos has used wooden barns as a reference for this nature retreat, with pitched roofs and facades wrapped in grey metal and pine. Read more View the full article

Designer Yves Behar of San Francisco studio Fuseproject has launched his OUYA open-source game console. (more...) View the full article

Product news: these large, modular, compressed-felt lamp shades by Stockholm studio Form Us With Love are designed to create a cosy environment around a table (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The geometric patterns of bridge structures informed the shapes used to create this wooden furniture by Variant Studio (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This guest house consists of interconnected boxes that meander between the trunks of cherry and pine trees in a forest near Yonago City, Japan (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has completed a hotel in Miyazaki where guest rooms and dining areas surround a central courtyard and wedding chapel (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Music Project: Berlin videographers False Manners Productions mixed fluids including milk, food colouring and make-up remover to create the cosmic patterns accompanying this track by producer Quenum. (more...) View the full article

The lost aisle and the chancel of a former church have been reconstructed and clad in lead to create the Medieval Mile Museum in Kilkenny, Ireland. Read more

Researchers at MIT plan to 3D print a pavilion by imitating the way a silkworm builds its cocoon. (more...) View the full article

Product news: these angular lounge chairs and ottomans by Brisbane designer Alexander Lotersztain can be tessellated in an endless array of shapes and patterns. (more...) View the full article

As the UK goes to the polls to decide whether it should stay a member of the European Union, we've rounded up all of our stories looking at how the outcome will affect the architecture and design industries. See Dezeen's coverage of the EU referendum » View the full article

Designers may not be able to save the world by themselves, but they must help avert societal problems and the looming climate crisis, says Christine Murray. Read more

Serie Architects and Multiply Architects have built a design school in Singapore that is net-zero and sustainable, with breezy open-air learning spaces. Read more

American artist Phillip K Smith III has added mirrors to the walls of a desert shack in California to create the illusion that you can see right through the building (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Miami studio Oppenheim Architecture has overhauled a local house to allow residents to divide their time between indoors and out (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: the architects behind plans to create a cluster of freshwater swimming pools on the River Thames have unveiled a proposal for a floating pool on the Yarra River in the Australian city of Melbourne. (more…) View the full article

Sheila O'Donnell of O'Donnell + Tuomey has been named Woman Architect of the Year 2019, with DnA founder Xu Tiantian winning the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture. Read more

In the first of three interviews Dezeen filmed at pop-up shops during Clerkenwell Design Week this year, Theo founder and Pigeon Light (above) producer Thorsten van Elten explains how the internet is changing the way design is sold (+ movie). (more…) View the full article