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The creative director and co-founder of Qwstion, Christian Kaegi, sheds light on why the sustainable Swiss brand is infiltrating the production chains of major companies in this exclusive interview for VDF x Alcova. Read more View the full article

Cooling pools of water and trees line corridors and rooms inside an Indonesian house by architects Budi Pradono. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

West Coast-based R&A Architecture + Design has fused two buildings on the national historic register in downtown Portland, Oregon, to create a new "house of welcome" for the city. Read more

Design Miami: design duo Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram have used technology from the car-racing industry to develop a chair made by robots that weighs just 2.2 kilograms (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2012: visitors were invited to sit in a chair hooked up to advanced stress-analysis equipment normally used in the car industry at an installation by Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram for car brand Audi in Milan last month. (more…) View the full article

A panoramic view of the harbour is mirrored onto a PVC ceiling at this apartment in Tel Aviv by Paritzki & Liani Architects. (more…) View the full article

An ash-wood staircase perforated with circular holes connects the two storeys of an Edwardian house in Lewisham, London, which has been extended by architects R2 Studio. Read more View the full article

German graduate designer Christoph Thetard has created a set of pedal-powered kitchen gadgets. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This skyscraper by Mexican studio Rojkind Arquitectos is about to commence construction in Mexico City. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London studio RA Projects has reconfigured and refurbished the home of fashion designer Roksanda Ilincic, adding a blue steel staircase in the centre designed to look "like a sculpture in a gallery" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Pavilions that host exhibitions for the Venice Biennale are boarded up for six months every year, and Dutch studio RAAAF thinks a better solution would be to cover each one with a veil of fabric. (more…) View the full article

This Tel Aviv apartment by Israeli architect Ranaan Stern features several rooms arranged around a large living space and long corridor (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Zaha Hadid Architects have unveiled designs for a theatre in Rabat, Morocco. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Plates of weathering steel frame the tall doorway to this timber-clad home, designed by architects Design Base 8 and Omar Gandhi for a remote site on Canada's Cape Breton (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Amsterdam studio Sander Architecten have completed a cardboard bank in the Netherlands. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Rachel Armstrong, professor of experimental architecture at Newcastle University, will speak about cities of the future at Dezeen Day on 30 October. Read more

Future Makers: London designer Rachel Harding has created a balloon-like chair by inflating Corian, a solid surface material more commonly used for kitchen or bathroom countertops (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

London designer Rachel Harding has created a range of framed fluorescent lamps that cast multicoloured diffracted light (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This clock by graduate designer Rachel Suming is made of engraved aluminium plates that overlap every three hours to reveal the time. (more...) View the full article

Our latest captioned video shows drone racing footage of an abandoned coal factory in southwest France, which was captured by Benoit Finck. Read more

Over a quarter of black architects in the UK deal with racism in the workplace as discrimination becomes "widespread", a survey from the Architects' Journal has shown. Read more View the full article

Milan 2014: Swedish design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has launched a range of chairs with winged backrests designed to create a "room within a room" in Milan this week. (more...) View the full article

Pulsing rings of light traced the movement of visitors to this installation in Federation Square, Melbourne, by architect Asif Khan – who this week became the first architect to pick up a Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions awards (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Lina Bo Bardi's famous glass easels and a 1960s expo pavilion by Aldo van Eyck have both been reconstructed in Lisbon, for the exhibition Art on Display at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: this year's edition of the Radical Innovation Award has opened its call for entries, with both professionals and students invited to submit forward-thinking hospitality designs. Read more View the full article