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Clean white buildings with identical doors and windows are arranged around a courtyard at this social housing complex in Mallorca by Spanish architects RipollTizon (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Drinks brand Coca-Cola and musician Will.i.am have developed a 3D printer that produces objects using filament made from recycled plastic bottles. (more...) View the full article

Five hundred replica Air Jordan V sneakers line the walls of Kith's new Miami outpost, designed by New York studio Snarkitecture. Read more View the full article

Matt Gibson Architecture + Design has adapted a heritage-listed Victorian house in Melbourne by "weaving" a modern programme into the existing red-brick shell. Read more

Dezeen Music Project: London artist Di Mainstone is developing an electronic instrument that enables performers to make music from the subtle vibrations of suspension bridge cables (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers MIT Press to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of a new book about developments in synthetic biology. (more...) View the full article

Engineering firm Ney & Partners and architects office William Matthews Associates have been selected to design a bridge for the historic English castle village of Tintagel where, according to legend, King Arthur was conceived. (more…) View the full article

China's "fatalist" government is causing the country's architectural profession to stagnate, according to artist and political activist Ai Weiwei. (more…) View the full article

LA Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne has left his post at the newspaper to advise the city council on architecture and planning decisions. Read more View the full article

Heading to Milan next week? Tag your Instagram posts with Dezeen’s #milanogram2019 hashtag for a chance to be reposted on our Instagram account, which has almost two million followers. Read more

Fluted concrete walls punctured by stone entrances and window frames characterise this minimal Italian house, which LCA Architetti has completed for an archeologist in Varese, Italy. Read more

A cantilevered exhibition floor and an underwater conference suite feature at this archive and research centre, designed by Italian studio Stefano Boeri Architetti and one of several new buildings on Marseille's waterfront (photographs by Edmund Sumner + slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for architects at Studio Fuksas, whose terminal at Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport in China is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Wooden planks add warmth to the otherwise monochrome interior of this bakery and coffee shop in Montreal by local architects Naturehumaine (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

An electric shade of blue called A.I. Aqua will come to the fore in fashion, tech and interiors in 2021 according to trend forecasting service WGSN. Read more

Following our recent showcase of design talent in east London, the team behind new housing development VIVO have commissioned Dezeen to acquire ten pieces of original design by creatives surrounding Stepney Green. (more…) View the full article

Architect Julien De Smedt has launched Makers With Agendas, a new design brand with products ranging from solutions to natural disasters and humanitarian crises to coat hooks and tea sets (+ slideshow + interview). (more...) View the full article

Raised courtyards filled with plants are cut into the facade of a house in Nam Dinh, Vietnam, designed by Landmak Architecture. Read more View the full article

News: students returned to the Glasgow School of Art this afternoon, as construction work began on the Charles Rennie Mackintosh masterpiece that was ravaged by fire last week. (more...) View the full article

BMW has released a Vantablack version of its X6 coupé, which has been spray-painted with "the world's blackest black" pigment that absorbs over 99 per cent of light. Read more

LEFT Architects has built a house with a giant vaulted roof in the mountains of the village Niha that is designed to kneel down to one of Lebanon's most visited religious sites. Read more

The top of this Australian house by architect Michael Ong of M O D O is a timber box that sits at an angle on top of the ground floor walls. (more…) View the full article

Skincare brand Haeckels has built a traditional wood-burning sauna on the sands of Margate beach, in a bid to "reacquaint the community" with the health-giving properties of their local waters. Read more View the full article

Seating areas are submerged into a pale wooden floor at this split-level office in London refitted by Paul Crofts Studio (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Spain and Kuwait-based AGi Architects have designed three seafront houses in Kuwait for three siblings and their families (photos by Nelson Garrido). (more…) View the full article