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Malaysian design office No-To-Scale Studio has issued a satirical proposal to President Trump, suggesting a radical means of representing the US-Mexico border: a 1,954 mile-long dining table. Read more View the full article

Our job of the week is a position for a senior architect/urban designer at Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland. Well known for their high-profile architecture projects worldwide, such as the VitraHaus in Weil am Rhein, Germany (pictured above), this year the firm has completed the Parrish Art Museum on Long Island and the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London. Visit the ad for full details or browse many other architecture and design job opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

New York studio REX has designed a sunlight-responsive sculpture that would prevent glare from a curved glass tower in Dallas scorching a Renzo Piano-designed museum. (more...) View the full article

Furniture, tableware and objects from the Philip Johnson-designed The Four Seasons restaurant in New York are to be auctioned off, marking the destruction of "one of the rarest phenomena in Modernism" according to US critics (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: the highly anticipated Apple television is set to launch later this year and will be operated with a digital "iRing" worn on the finger, according to an industry insider. (more...) View the full article

Rather than slotting onto chains, these 3D-printed pendants by Italian designer Maria Jennifer Carew hang from the edge of the wearer's clothing (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Gina Périer and Alexander Egebjerg have designed an industrial-standard female toilet for festivals and outdoor events that allows people to pee sitting down quickly and safely. Read more

The UK's Royal Navy has tested an autonomous speedboat it believes could completely "change how they operate" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Breaking news: Design Museum co-directors Deyan Sudjic and Alice Black are leaving their posts at the London museum. A successor has been lined up but not named, Dezeen understands. Read more

Glass floors allow residents to look down from a dining table into a toilet inside this windowless concrete house in Shanghai by Chinese firm Atelier FCJZ (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Pale dresses and jumpsuits were presented against a backdrop of orchid-covered walls at fashion house Dior's haute couture show in Paris (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This huge slideshow of images by British photographers Hufton + Crow shows the minimal interior of John Pawson's St Moritz Church in Augsburg, Germany, during a rehearsal for a choir recital. (more...) View the full article

A white holiday home in Okinawa by British designer John Pawson was popular this week, so we've gone back through our archive and pinned dozens of examples of white houses to a new Pinterest board. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more white houses in our archive View the full article

London's V&A shows what the future of food could look like in its latest exhibition Food: Bigger than the Plate, which takes visitors through a full food cycle from compost to plate. Read more

Today is Diwali, the festival of lights celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists. To celebrate, we've pinned dozens of lighting installations to a new Pinterest board, such as a canopy of pulsating lanterns designed for New York's Winter Garden and a glowing red sun made from thousands of crystals. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › View the full article

This house in south London, arranged around an old pear tree, was designed by British architect Jake Edgley as a home for himself and his family. Read more View the full article

Inuit snow goggles, opera glasses disguised as ladies' handheld fans and experimental sunglass designs from the 1960s feature among a trove of historical eyewear that has gone on display at Design Museum Holon. Read more View the full article

Fed up with the beauty ideals portrayed in the media, designers are challenging body image with products, clothes and accessories that distort the figure and face, highlight preconceptions and poke fun at unrealistic trends. Here are 10 of the best we've seen. (more…) View the full article

Pomo summer: the last project in our Postmodernism season is by one of Britain's greatest architects. With its distinctive stripy facade, rounded clock tower and colourful courtyard, No 1 Poultry was James Stirling's last completed building, but is currently the focus of a preservations battle involving some of the world's best-known architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Music: American animator Jeanette Lee borrowed the shapes of Tokyo's Nakagin Capsule Tower to create a science-fiction urban landscape for Dewy Sinatra's In My Bubble music video. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen is hosting a series of panel discussions at Brooklyn creative space A/D/O, with a lineup of New York-based designers and architects who will share their experiences of living and working in the city. Read more View the full article

Canadian studio Revery Architecture has completed an opera house in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District, which is covered in curved aluminium slats arranged in wavy patterns. Read more

News: Jean Nouvel's One Central Park residential tower in Sydney will feature the world's tallest vertical garden by inventor of living walls, Patrick Blanc. (more...) View the full article

German design studio Ding3000 has created a cast-iron candle holder for Danish brand QDO that holds six coasters within its base. (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has partnered with UK designers Dorothy to give readers the chance to win one of five prints of forgotten architectural monuments. (more...) View the full article