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MIT has taken the first steps towards turning plants into functional lighting by embedding the firefly enzyme in the leaves of a watercress plant. Read more View the full article

The bent plywood back of this chair by Danish design brand ShapingYourDay slots into a hole in the seat and is attached with two screws (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The fifth annual Medellin Design Week set out to show that Colombia is ready to stop copying and start developing a national design identity. Read more

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in our first movie looking at the interface between design and technology, Andy Millns of 3D production company Inition claims virtual reality will soon become almost indistinguishable from the real world. (more...) View the full article

Foster + Partners has revealed its plans to add a large overhanging rooftop extension to the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, as part of its renovation of the institution in northern Spain. Read more

Delicate glazing fits around a bulky concrete structure at this hilltop house in Toledo by Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

SAM Architects chose century-old brickwork and charred larch for the exterior of this mews house in southeast London, which features a brightly coloured kitchen and a folding facade (photos by Edmund Sumner + slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Argentinian studio Adamo Faiden has renovated the curved lower floor of this 1929 home in Buenos Aires to create a light-filled room that opens onto the garden. Read more

News: Frank Gehry and Norman Foster have been appointed to design a series of buildings as part of the £8 billion redevelopment of Battersea Power Station in London. (more...) View the full article

Thomas Heatherwick explains his desire for the recently opened Vessel, at the Hudson Yards development, to become a unique public destination in this video. Read more

Israeli artist Daniel Rozin has created an interactive "mirror" from faux-fur bunches that change colour to create moving silhouettes (+ movie). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

This year, furniture designs ventured out of the home onto the streets and into prisons. Design reporter Jennifer Hahn picks out her top 10 projects for our review of 2019, from public seating in Beirut to silicone chairs. Read more View the full article

Milan 2014: steel tubes slot into an oak base to create this clothes rack by Swedish firm Note Design Studio, which will debut in Milan. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: brands Makita, SCG and TOSTEM will appear at the debut edition of ACT Forum'19 exposition in November, alongside architect Stefano Boeri. Read more

Twin slides loop through a Renaissance palace created as part of an installation by Carsten Höller and neurobiologist Stefano Mancuso, which explores emotional effects of people on plants. Read more View the full article

This steel and glass elevator shaft designed by Spanish architecture firm Ah Asociados rises out of a hillside on the outskirts of Pamplona in Spain to connect a suburb with the city (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the second part of London graduate exhibition New Designers will showcase industrial, graphic and spatial design projects from today until 6 July. (more...) View the full article

The Dezeen Awards 2019 design shortlist has been revealed. It includes a self-cleaning water bottle, a pendant light made with used coffee grounds, and the world's first silent wireless breast pump. Read more

Mathieu Lehanneur chipped blocks of marble and bronze to create tables, benches and stools that resemble the surface of the ocean. Read more View the full article

These graphic shapes on the wall can be pulled outwards to form a clothes rail and occasional table. (more...) View the full article

Fungus, yeast-based bioplastic and other materials grown by microbes have been used to make the Korvaa headphones, designed by Finnish studio Aivan in collaboration with scientists. Read more

Long wooden panels give a shed-like aesthetic to the walls and cabinets of this apartment in A Coruña, Spain, by Sinaldaba Estudio de Arquitectura. (more...) View the full article

The interchangeable steel grid of windows, shelves and lockers of a school in Sneung, Cambodia, designed by Orient Occident Atelier can also be used as a climbing frame. Read more

Architecture studio Narch has renovated a Barcelona apartment, removing many of the internal walls to create a single space with a variety of patterned tile floors (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Graduate shows 2016: Bartlett graduate Louise Bjørnskov Schmidt has proposed an ecological education facility that circles a lake within a Panama rainforest (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article