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The UK's London Assembly has published a primer calling on property developers and architects to design for a circular economy, with ideas such as rental furnishing and using blockchain technology. Read more

Curved walls made from sun-bleached timber slats screen the exterior of this sports centre by Explorations Architecture in the French commune of Arpajon, near Paris (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Opinion: journalist and critic Mimi Zeiger argues that trying to rewrite design history with all-female shows like MoMA's Designing Modern Women does nothing to "shake up the dominant masculine ethos" that still plagues the industry. (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2013: designers Laetitia de Allegri and Eva Feldkamp have created a collection of furniture and products including a magazine holder that resembles a toast rack (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A kitchen concealed behind a pivoting wooden wall is one of several interventions made to transform an old agricultural warehouse in Almenar de Soria, Spain, into a community events space (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Auto-maker Ford has dabbled in the world of home furnishing with the Lane-Keeping Bed, which promises to help couples get a better night's sleep. Read more

Budapest architects MARP have replaced the missing corner of a ruined Renaissance palace with a Corten steel lookout point. (more…) View the full article

Chinese studio Neri&Hu has designed a long communal table and suspended lighting that creates a "canopy" in the atrium of Shanghai's Chi-Q restaurant. Read more View the full article

This home on a golf course complex in Belas on the outskirts of Lisbon consists of five smaller houses connected by interior passages.(+ slideshow) (more…) View the full article

The Black Friday Sale continues at Dezeen Watch Store, with many bestselling styles discounted by up to 25 per cent. We've picked out six of the best. Read more View the full article

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban developed these timber and earth houses for the rehabilitation of a Sri Lankan fishing village that was swept away during the 2004 tsunami (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Adidas and fashion designer Stella McCartney have revealed a new version of the Ultra Boost trainer that features an upper made from plastic recovered from the sea. Read more View the full article

London-based Aseptic Studio has designed an ergonomic cushion in the shape of a headless torso to provide physical and emotional support for lonely millennials living in cities. Read more View the full article

Product news: Hackney designer Ed Carpenter has created a countryside version of his London design classic, the Pigeon Light, this time shaped like a pheasant. (more…) View the full article

Diller Scofidio + Renfro co-founder Elizabeth Diller has hit out at New York's spate of luxury skyscrapers, saying that the city is at risk of being "consumed by the dollar" (+ interview). (more…) View the full article

Hunters Point Library in New York's Long Island City by Steven Holl Architects has been hit with a class action lawsuit for its "total disregard" of people with mobility disabilities. Read more View the full article

German architects Kister Scheithauer Gross used Jewish symbol the Star of David to create patterned windows in the limestone walls of this synagogue in Ulm, Germany. (more...) View the full article

Humans will inevitably become extinct due to environmental breakdown, but we have the power to design ourselves a "beautiful ending", says Paola Antonelli, who will next week open a major exhibition in Milan called Broken Nature. Read more

A roughly plastered wall curves over the dining area of this restaurant in Toronto, designed by local studio Odami. Read more

Zaha Hadid's Library and Learning Centre at the Vienna University of Economics and Business opens today and this animation by London visualisation firm Neutral gives a tour of the building. (more...) View the full article

Architcture practice. LUO Studio has extended the abandoned foundations and concrete columns of a residential project with a timber-framed upper storey to create a community centre in Yuanheguan, China. Read more View the full article

Plans to 3D-print a house and Dezeen's new opinion column lead the latest issue of Dezeen Mail, which also includes all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 136 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Stockholm 2015: this small clip lamp by French designer Inga Sempé can also stand unassisted or be fixed to a wall. (more…) View the full article

The form of U-House by Jorge Graca Costa was inspired by traditional Mediterranean courtyard houses to protect it from the windy climate of western Portugal and it's the twenty-first door on our A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about U-House » View the full article

This captioned movie reveals how a 2.3-metre-wide house in south London, designed by Alma-nac, has a staggered floor plan and sloped roof dotted with windows to make most of natural light. Read more View the full article