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Dezeen promotion: British furniture brand Ercol will present new products designed for both the home and the office during this year's Milan design week (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A folded timber roof adds drama to the interior of this school swimming pool in Buckinghamshire, England, by Duggan Morris Architects, but also helps to prevent echoes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Competition: we're giving away three copies of DesignPOP, the new product design book by My Design Life founder Lisa S Roberts (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

New York firm Steven Holl Architects has completed the Sliced Porosity Block, a cluster of five towers around a public plaza in Chengdu, China (+ slideshow + photographs by Hufton + Crow). (more...) View the full article

Design Miami 2014: Copenhagen studio KiBiSi claims to have designed the first lightweight cargo bicycle tailored to the needs of city commuters, for Danish manufacturer Biomega. (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win one of three copies of the first limited-edition It’s Nice That Annual. (more…) View the full article

News: the Williams and Tsien-designed former American Folk Art Museum in New York will be demolished just 13 years after it was built to make room for an extension to the neighbouring Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), despite an outcry from architects, conservationists and critics. (more...) View the full article

This moody Melbourne house extension by local studio Branch Studio Architects features dark rammed-charcoal walls, window nooks and an outdoor bathtub. Read more View the full article

Milan 2014: British artist Sarah Lucas presents her debut furniture collection, made from concrete blocks and MDF, in Milan tonight (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The USA's National Park Service celebrates its centenary this week. We've picked out eight of the best visitors centres and amenities designed as part of its Mission 66 project, which took place 50 years ago (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2016: Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune's chair and sofa for Italian brand Tacchini feature tall sloping backs that form triangular shapes when seen from the side. (more…) View the full article

Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde has covered a wall at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport in a realistic, cloud-studded sky (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Penda has designed a residential tower in Tel Aviv, with facades made of modular archways and terraces, which aims to complement the city's legacy of Bauhaus architecture. Read more View the full article

Two ladders are joined by hidden hinges to create this adaptable slimline coat rack by Taiwanese designer Yenwen Tseng. (more…) View the full article

American actress Zendaya wore a transforming Tommy Hilfiger dress to the Met Gala last night, which changed colour using technology hidden beneath the skirt. Read more

Italian bank ChiantiBanca has opened a string of new branches in Tuscany that are designed to look more like traditional local eateries than financial institutions. (more...) View the full article

These public toilets in Japan by Tato Architects comprise a single curved wall sheltered beneath a gabled roof (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen archive: this week we featured a skyscraper with an algae skin, so we thought we’d bring you all the projects involving algae we’ve published on Dezeen. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » View the full article

Spanish architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava has unveiled designs for three new multi-modal bridges for the growing Chinese city of Huashan (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival 2016: design duo Barber and Osgerby have created a limited-edition table constructed from three curved pieces of oak (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London pop-up store Pass on Plastic was decorated floor to ceiling with wallpaper depicting plastic waste to serve as a visual reminder to consumers of the growing problem of ocean plastic. Read more

American studio Richard Meier and Partners has completed its first project in South America: a white and concrete office building with hidden vertical gardens in Rio de Janeiro (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Engine noise, fumes and carbon emissions are all nonexistent with X Shore, one of the first electric boat-makers to target the consumer market. Read more

This six-sided building covered in mirrors is the new home for the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland in Ohio by London-based architect Farshid Moussavi (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: materials developer Rieder has clad the facades of Solstice on the Park, a residential tower in Chicago designed by Studio Gang, in modular concrete panels. Read more