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The bricks forming the facade of this tall, skinny house in Rotterdam are made from 15 tonnes of compacted industrial waste (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

New York designer Alissia Melka-Teichroew has added a tea set featuring a perforated sugar spoon to the collection of 3D-printed homeware brand Othr (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: architecture firm Foster + Partners and designer Thomas Heatherwick have unveiled images of a finance centre they are collaborating on, which is currently under construction in Shanghai. (more...) View the full article

German car manufacturer Volkswagen has imagined a friendly new shape for cars of the future based on emerging electric and driverless technologies. Read more View the full article

Dutch shoe brand United Nude and fashion designer Iris van Herpen have collaborated to create crescent-shaped boots for her latest ready to wear collection shown at Paris Fashion Week. (more...) View the full article

Low-slung volumes stretch along either side of central outdoor spaces at this family home in Northern California, by American firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. Read more View the full article

Yves Behar has designed a smart cup called Vessyl, which detects what you're drinking and displays its nutritional contents in real time. (more...) View the full article

This shed-inspired house in rural Victoria, Australia, features a low-maintenance fire-resistant facade of corrugated steel that also helps to reflect heat, keeping the building cool in summer (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Designing more sustainable structures is not about deciding what is good or bad, but making more carefully considered design decisions, says architect Diébédo Francis Kéré. Read more View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2013: Dutch artist Arne Hendriks proposes shrinking the human population to an average height of 50 centimetres as a way to reduce the amount of food and natural resources we consume. (more...) View the full article

Designer Tom Dixon has been awarded the London Design Medal at this year's British Land Celebration of Design Awards, which also sees Vivienne Westwood, Daniel Charny and Ross Atkin commended for their work. Read more

Dezeen has won Best Content Studio at the Digiday Publishing Awards in New York, beating The New York Times to the honour. (more…)

A smog-removal machine and a modular phone concept (pictured) are among the highlights from Dutch Design Week, which we've been covering for the past seven days. More from Eindhoven, plus this week's architecture and design news and our Dezeen Music Project featured track follow. (more...) View the full article

A translucent garden pavilion made from 3D-printed plastic blocks provides a lightweight counterpoint to a robust, stone-clad house by AZL Architects in the Chinese village of Shanyinwu. Read more View the full article

Aged frescos and exposed timber ceilings offset new floors and fixtures inside this Lisbon apartment, which has been overhauled by Studio Gameiro. Read more

Brexit crisis: the Royal Institute of British Architects has drawn up a list of demands for the UK government, including freedom of movement and national investment, to help architects deliver economic growth when the country leaves the European Union. (more…) View the full article

Music: tying in with our series on Brutalist architecture, this music video by director Callum Cooper follows British band Metronomy around London's Barbican Estate (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Dutch architecture firm Space&Matter has turned a series of redundant canal-side bridge keeper's houses in Amsterdam into the SWEETS hotel. Read more

A seating design aiming to tackle the problem of overcrowding on trains features in this week's issue of Dezeen Mail, along with Moby's criticism of a Zaha Hadid-designed hotel room and a zinc-clad home in a Wisconsin crop field (pictured). Read Dezeen Mail issue 324 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

French architects ECDM have completed a nursery in Paris with rippling concrete walls (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: Apple’s senior vice president of industrial design Jonathan Ive has given his support to the growing campaign against the UK government’s plans to remove design and other creative subjects from the school curriculum. (more…) View the full article

A factory hall is one of Frank Gehry's three contributions to the Vitra Campus at Weil am Rhein in Germany. Twenty-five years after its completion, Swiss architect Aurélie Blanchard has revamped the building's canteen (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

People in the Netherlands will soon be able to cycle over the world's first 3D-printed steel bridge on the world's first 3D-printed steel bicycle (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Hidden behind a bookcase in a secret room, a fireman's pole offers a fast escape route from the top floor of this Berlin home by local studio NOWlab (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Our pick of the five best jobs in architecture, interiors and design on Dezeen Jobs this week include opportunities at OMA, Gensler and Tom Dixon. Read more