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Italian architect Stefano Boeri has designed three cube-shaped vertical forest apartments blocks for Egypt's New Administrative Capital, which is being built to the east of Cairo. Read more

Design agency Tangerine worked with British start-up Bluebell to develop a smart monitor, which uses a device attached to the baby's clothing to send alerts to parents through a wearable wristband and app. Read more

London design studio Sella Concept used plush furnishings, grandiose light fixtures and a "sophisticated" colour palette to ditch the stereotypical aesthetic of startups inside this central London co-working space. Read more

Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Studio Libeskind and MVRDV are among six teams that have revealed their competing proposals for a museum and memorial dedicated to the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida. Read more

Architecture studio PPAA cut away portions of a square-plan house to create voids that bring in natural light and provide an intimate connection to the surrounding forest. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Autex has released an adjustable system of acoustic beams that can be applied to both ceilings and walls to absorb sound. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio FREAKS has clad an old printing warehouse in France shiny corrugated metal cladding and converted it into a research centre for lighting company Sammode. Read more View the full article

Cape Town's Gorgeous George hotel exhibits the best of local design says interior architect Tristan du Plessis, in this video produced by Dezeen for the AHEAD awards. Read more View the full article

A team of scientists at Tufts University in the US have created xenobots, tiny robots made from frog skin and heart cells that can walk, work together and heal themselves. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Jobs has a number of promising architecture and design vacancies available right now in the US, including positions at Los Angeles firm Montalba Architects and New York art institution The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Read more View the full article

Architecture practice Timmins + Whyte has added a double-height gabled extension to a 19th-century house in Melbourne, illuminating its formerly light-starved living spaces. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: British textile company Camira has created fabrics that contain recycled plastic collected from oceans and beaches. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: the NINA baby cradle by Lisbon design brand FEIT is a crib that can be easily turned into a drawing table. Read more View the full article

Students at Chelsea College of Arts in London present designs for bars and restaurants developed on their interior design course in this digital student exhibition for Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

The coronavirus pandemic will bring an "intense focus" on the world's environmental crisis, says Nike's sustainable design lead Noah Murphy-Reinhertz. Read more View the full article

To coincide with Icelandic design festival DesignMarch, which began in Reykjavik yesterday, here are some parchment gas masks by Reykjavik designer Sruli Recht. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Sound artist and designer Yuri Suzuki is sharing his Sound of the Earth: Pandemic Chapter project, which contains crowdsourced sounds of the pandemic from all over the world, as part of Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Spanish design brands got together under the name Red to exhibit new products at the at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland in Ohio, USA, have unveiled plans for a new museum building by London firm Foreign Office Architects. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Industrial designer Yves Béhar of San Francisco studio fuseproject is our featured designer this week. See all our stories about him by clicking here. We also now stock his new Vue watch for Issey Miyake over at Dezeen Watch Store. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Groninger Museum in the Netherlands has re-opened following a renovation including areas designed by Studio Job, Maarten Baas and Jaime Hayón. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s a selection of projects by Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura, who has been named 2011 Pritzker Prize Laureate (see our earlier story). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week’s selection from the Dezeen archives features all our stories about apartments. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: Ilse Crawford is one of the judges of the Inside awards. In this movie filmed by Dezeen she talks about her studio in London and her work as an interior designer. Watch the movie » Dezeen readers can save 25% on the price of entering the Inside awards and attending the festival in Barcelona from 2-4 November – simply quote VIP code DEZEEN when entering online at www.insidefestival.com. Entries close on 30 June. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article