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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

Inside Festival 2015: Casey Vallance of Cox Rayner Architects explains how the firm used natural materials to create a calming environment inside a dentist training facility in Brisbane, Australia, in this exclusive movie. (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

Buildings in the future could feature floors embedded with synthetic bacteria that eat dirt and clean your feet, according to this project by design student Tashia Tucker (+ 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

Since Notre-Dame Cathedral was devastated by fire last month, design proposals for rebuilding the roof and spire have got more and more ridiculous. Here are seven of the most far-fetched, including a car park, a swimming pool and a McDonald's. 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

This set of wooden toys by Polish studio Poorex incorporates tools associated with household chores. (more…) View the full article

Sulafest music festival in India has apologised to British designer Morag Myerscough for copying her colourful pavilion design, promising to commission original work in future. Read 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

This zinc-clad warehouse in Germany by Ecker Architekten has gabled elevations on all four sides, creating a multi-faceted roof that helps the building to appear smaller than it really is (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Over 350 species of bird have made their home at this wetland centre, built by local firm X Architects on a former rubbish dump in the United Arab Emirates (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: while Foster + Partners thinks simply increasing capacity is the way to improve New York’s Grand Central Terminal, architecture firm SOM have proposed adding a floating observation deck that slides up and down the sides of two new skyscrapers (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

For Jerry Folk's Kids music video, French visual artist Quentin Deronzier used Cinema 4D to create hypnotic visuals that document the transition from childhood to adulthood (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

London's Royal Academy of Arts has named Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias the winner of its 2020 architecture prize for her urban sculptures in public spaces. Read more View the full article

You can enjoy breakfast, lunch or dinner on top of your sloping roof using this furniture by Lithuanian design graduate Ainė Bunikytė (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Neutelings Riedijk Architects and Iris van Herpen have wrapped the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in over 1000 metres of delicate concrete friezes that merge fossil forms with the fabric of the designer's collections. Read more

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

There is only enough room for one person inside this tall skinny pavilion that Chilean studio Pezo von Ellrichshausen has built in the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Italian architect Piero Lissoni has created a modular sofa system for B&B Italia, which can be reconfigured with 84 different components. Read more

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have demonstrated an experimental way of manufacturing cement that releases no carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Read more

Following Shigeru Ban's Pritzker Prize win, we've collected together his best-known projects from the pages of Dezeen. See our new Pinterest board» Follow Dezeen on Pinterest» View the full article

SOM has won a competition to design a new district for Sri Lankan city Colombo, with a design featuring numerous skyscrapers, a marina, canals and a park, influenced by the country's tropical climate. Read more View the full article

Copper-clad panels behind the glazed facade of this gymnasium by French firm LAN Architecture produce tinted reflections of the surrounding buildings (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Shoes that undergo physical changes to represent stages in a life cycle – from floating in amniotic fluid to rebirth through fire – form this collection by London designer Benjamin John Hall (+ movie). (more…) View the full article