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Dezeen promotion: playful patterns, colourful marbles and a return to tradition are among the trends to look out for in the tile industry this year, according to organisation Ceramics of Italy. Read more

American brand CB2 has launched its first range of vintage furniture in collaboration with curator Charlie Ferrer, offering rare mid-century European designs. Read more

Icelandic design studio Flétta turns disused trophies into totemic tables and lighting, in an attempt to restore junked items to their former glory. Read more

China, the world's largest car market, is heavily pushing for zero-emissions vehicles to combat its pollution issues, so this year's Auto Shanghai is packed with electric cars. Dezeen deputy editor Tom Ravenscroft picks out 10 of the best made by Chinese companies. Read more

US studio Form4 Architecture has designed a Palo Alto office complex that features rectangular structures wrapped in glass and metal, with curved elements that are meant to represent the "highs and lows of exploratory research and development". Read more

Membership club Soho House has launched a range of furniture and homeware in the US so that fans of its interior decor can deck their home's in the same fashion. Read more

Kids can now build their own fully functional Windows 10 PC tablet laptop, using this powerful new kit by creative-tech toy company Kano. Read more

Weathering steel, concrete and glass were used to form this asymmetrical dwelling by Mork-Ulnes Architects that is nudged into a hillside overlooking a verdant, rolling valley in northern California's Sonoma County Read more

Chinese practice Arch Studio has completely rebuilt a group of old brick and concrete structures in Beijing, joining them together with a "folding" circulation route that reimagines their flat roofs as walkways. Read more

Dezeen Jobs has a number of promising architecture and design opportunities right now, including positions at architecture firm Snøhetta and British studio Farrells. Read more

Japanese studio Nendo has created a collection of stackable chairs from recycled household plastics, which take design cues from a folded sheet of paper. Read more

A 1930s soda factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn has been transformed into bathhouse with a subterranean spa influenced by Scandinavian saunas, Russian banyas and Turkish hammams. Read more View the full article

Texas studio Michael Hsu Office of Architecture has turned a former printing house into the New York headquarters of American burger company Shake Shack. Read more View the full article

In a bid to "make science fiction a reality", Samsung's future factory STAR Labs has developed Neon, AI-powered virtual beings that look and behave like real humans. Read more View the full article

Eindhoven graduate Diego Faivre has coated electrical plugs in brightly coloured, patterned clay, in a bid to inject some fun into these "boring and forgotten" objects. Read more View the full article

A mix of retail and cultural facilities will make up the Wollert Neighbourhood Centre, which OMA has proposed for the town of Whittlesey, Australia. Read more View the full article

The latest edition of Dezeen Weekly includes our pick of 10 architecture films to stave off boredom and the porch of an Italian villa which has been converted into a micro-home for isolation. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly › View the full article

VDF products fair: Rosa is a collection of lighting created by designer Marc Wood that aims to showcase the "opaque beauty of natural marble". Read more View the full article

Architect Peter Cook explains Archigram's concept for a temporary city that can be set up overnight in the third instalment of our exclusive video series with the radical architecture group for VDF. Read more View the full article

Gucci's creative director Alessandro Michele has announced that the Italian brand will be disregarding the fashion calendar's "stale" deadlines, holding shows just twice a year instead to reduce waste. Read more View the full article

The Los Angeles film producer behind American Psycho has created a cantilevered mirrored house near Joshua Tree National Park, designed to look like a New York skyscraper on its side. Read more View the full article

Italian design studio CLS Architetti have completed a shop in Vietnam with undulating fins and a giant mirrorball. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s another movie by Brazilian architectural photographer Pedro Kok (see yesterday’s film of Herzog & de Meuron’s VitraHaus), this time of a gallery in Brumadinho, Brazil, designed by Rodrigo Cerviño Lopez. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

DezeenTV: architectural photographer Cristobal Palma has sent us his film of Coliseos sports centre in Medellín, Colombia, designed by Giancarlo Mazzanti Arquitectos and Felipe Mesa of Plan:B. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

UK architects Foster + Partners have also announced their proposed masterplan for the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article