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These pieces of jewellery by Central Saint Martins graduate Stéphanie Van Zwam are made from plastic bubbles and tubes that float around the wearer’s body (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Airbus and Italdesign have revealed their plans to help city dwellers beat traffic with a modular vehicle that is part car, part drone. Read more View the full article

Airbus has revealed a working model of its MAVERIC aircraft, which has a "blended wing body" design that could reduce fuel consumption by up to 20 per cent. Read more View the full article

Airbus has unveiled a bird-like concept for a hybrid-electric airliner that aims to show the potential of using biomimicry in aviation design. Read more

Central Saint Martins graduate Robert Cooper has created chocolate and wafer snacks that can be built into Airfix-style models, which are on display at the New Designers Part 2 exhibition that opened yesterday (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The most private rooms of this house by Japanese studio Airhouse Design Office are concealed within massive columns, leaving the surrounding double-height space to become an area for socialising (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

AIRLAB has completed an angular, mesh-covered pavilion at Singapore's Gardens by the Bay, which has a structure made entirely from 3D-printed stainless steel components. Read more View the full article

Ribbons of red aluminium create a woven texture across the facade of this office block completed by Japanese studio Aisaka Architects in Tokyo (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Kasabian's Sergio Pizzorno had to sing in a "crazy" mix of slow and fast speeds to achieve the glitchy effect in the music video for Favourites, directed by designer Aitor Throup. Read more

British designer Aitor Throup has been announced as G-Star Raw's new creative director, following three years as a creative consultant to the brand. Read more View the full article

Fashion designer Aitor Throup has presented a set of prototype garments on giant marionettes instead of models during this season's London Collections: Men (+ slideshow). (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

Dezeen Wire: a Kalashnikov AK-47 rifle, one of the most widely used weapons in the world, is among 13 new additions to the collection of the Design Museum in London. Other new acquisitions include a Space Invaders arcade machine, Sony Walkman cassette player and The Face magazine. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Glossy green paint coats the bottom half of this bright white restaurant in Athens, which design studio AK-A has finished with deep red accents. Read more

The wooden framework of this Japanese house by Akasaka Shinichiro Atelier will allow the owners to adapt the lower floor into a photography studio or children's room (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The upper storey of this home in the Lithuanian countryside is contained within a pointy shale-clad roof, while glazed walls provide woodland views for rooms on the ground floor (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Hats by Japanese milliner Akio Hirata appear to float between the floor and ceiling in this installation by Japanese designers Nendo. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Senegalese-American singer Akon says he has signed an agreement with the government of Senegal to build a city with a cryptocurrency-based economy named Akon City. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio Anarchitect has turned a couple of stone buildings in the UAE into Al Faya Lodge, a hotel and saltwater spa in the Sharjah desert. Read more

Zaha Hadid Architects has completed the Al Wakrah Stadium, a venue for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, and it hosts its inaugural match today. Read more

Swathes of aluminium tiles wrap around this sharply pointed tower by Amanda Levete's studio AL_A, which is set in the former gardens of the British embassy in Bangkok. Read more View the full article

Dezeenwire: London firm AL_A have won a competition to design an extension to the Victoria and Albert museum in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Vienna designer Vuk Jakovljevic has designed this wooden chair with a wide winged back. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

News: Finnish studio ALA Architects has won the international competition to design a new public library in Helsinki with plans that involve a mass of twisted timber (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Crinkled fibre-cement panels clad the facade of this theatre extension by Finnish studio ALA Architects in the city of Kuopio, complementing the concrete exterior of the original 1960s building (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article