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Central Saint Martins graduate Rosie Broadhead has integrated live bacteria into the fibres of clothing that reduces body odour, encourages cell renewal and improves the immune system, when activated by sweat. Read more

This house in the Bavarian countryside by local office SoHo Architektur has a kinked facade that provides different views from the living spaces and a pitched roof that references vernacular farm buildings (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

American firm ODA has designed a massive apartment building in Brooklyn that comprises stepped blocks, protruding balconies and a sloping roofline that evokes a mountain silhouette. Read more

Product news: German designer Sebastian Scherer used sheets of coloured glass to create these tessellating tables. (more...) View the full article

News: plans have been revealed this morning for a series of loaf-shaped skyscrapers to accompany the Cheesegrater, Can of Ham, Toast Rack and Gherkin buildings in central London. (more...) View the full article

MVRDV has revealed its plans to redevelop the former Mannheim US Army camp in Germany, creating a green mound from demolished barracks and four residential towers that spell out the word home. Read more View the full article

News: disgraced fashion designer John Galliano has made his catwalk comeback with his inaugural haute-couture collection for Paris house Maison Martin Margiela. (more…) View the full article

Traditional elements like a bell tower are reinterpreted as pointed protrusions in this sculptural church in Monterrey, designed by architecture studio Moneo Brock. Read more View the full article

Twelve studios have come together to design bespoke Christmas wrapping paper for charity, featuring prints inspired by hip-hop icons and social media. Read more

Dezeen promotion: the Design Industry ceramic tile collection by Italian company Refin features two ranges of tiles that resemble metallic surfaces and cement finishes. (more…) View the full article

Footwear brand Birkenstock has worked with design studio Vinson & Co to create a showroom inside a grandiose Paris apartment, where shoes are displayed in living-room-style spaces. Read more

This showroom for a real estate developer in Guangzhou, China, is a prototype for a modular building system designed by Open Architecture to be easily moved or adapted (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Circular openings form entrances and windows for this housing development in the Spanish town of Conil de la Frontera, designed by Seville studio Kauh (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Interior designer Tina Rich has turned a "white box" in New York City's Soho neighbourhood into a showroom and office for a women's sports brand. Read more View the full article

Designing a new housing model for the masses is the most urgent task facing architects today says Jack Self, who has co-curated an exhibition looking at the data behind today's average home. Read more

Ron Arad Architects has revealed a twisted tower that is narrow at the base but widens at the top, built as the first phase of the ToHA office complex in Tel Aviv. Read more

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with creative website It's Nice That to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of its Printed Pages magazine. (more...) View the full article

An apartment in Berlin's Unité d'Habitation has been refurbished by German-American architect Philipp Mohr to Le Corbusier's original plans. Read more View the full article

Lödige Industries' automated car park has been installed beneath a library in Denmark, which was designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

French artists Christophe Berdaguer and Marie Péjus have converted an old house in France into a visitor centre by giving it a ghostly cloak of polystyrene and paint. (more…) View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is an architectural position with artist Tomás Saraceno at his studio in Berlin. Tomás Saraceno's work includes On The Roof: Cloud City (shown above) that was installed at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art last year. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs here. View the full article

Interieur 2012: British designer Ross Lovegrove presented a futuristic concept car shaped according to instinct rather than science at the Interieur design biennale in Kortrijk, Belgium, last week (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

World Heritage Corb: the long-neglected housing complex designed by French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier for workers of a sugar factory outside Bordeaux, recently added to UNESCO's World Heritage List, has found a new life as desirable apartments. (more…) View the full article

Books, records, plant pots and even shoes can be turned into musical instruments thanks to British designer Nick Brennan’s Sound Pegs device (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2016: with this year's London Design Festival less than a month away, Dezeen's Alice Morby selects her pick of the best installations and exhibitions that will be taking place across the capital. (more…) View the full article