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Dezeen Wire: safety concerns have led local officials in Shanghai to propose the introduction of a regulation banning the use of glass curtain walls on new schools, hospitals and residential buildings - China Daily A number of recent incidents involving falling glass in the city, which has the highest number of glass-clad buildings in China, have led to concerns that poor installation and maintenance are increasing the chances of injury to the public. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A subway car-style corridor, worn concrete walls and metal railings feature inside this Shanghai clothing shop, which Sò Studio has designed to emulate New York. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio Offhand Practice created textured walls and faux skylights within this Shanghai design gallery to evoke the feeling of being inside a cave. Read more View the full article

Ma Yansong of Chinese studio MAD is exhibiting architectural models and sculptures in a Beijing courtyard to illustrate his vision for a future city inspired by nature and shaped by human emotion (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: a patchwork of panels on Doshi Levien's Shanty cabinet for Spanish furniture company BD Barcelona references the temporary housing found in cities across Africa, Asia and South America (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

VDF products fair: The use of stone in Italian art and architecture informed the Shapes of Italy porcelain surface tile collection by Caesar Ceramics. Read more View the full article

California firm OPA has completed a house for the rolling desert landscape of Nevada, with slanted zinc-clad sections intended to appear as an extension of the terrain. Read more View the full article

Here is a selection of images created by photographer Nick Wood and architectural rendering studio Hayes Davidson to demonstrate how The Shard tower by Renzo Piano Building Workshop might be photographed once complete in 2012. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

News: Italian architect Renzo Piano has been commissioned to design a 27-storey residential tower beside his London skyscraper The Shard. (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2012: these outdoor chairs by Stockholm designer Thomas Bernstrand are joined together like shopping trolleys to encourage park visitors to tidy them away when they leave. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese firm Naruse Inokuma Architects has designed a shared occupancy house in Nagoya with communal areas for eating, cooking and relaxing that encourage the residents to interact in different ways (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

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London Design Festival 2013: Royal College of Art graduate Bilge Nur Saltik has designed a collection of minimal white plates, bowls and cups that tip backwards and forwards, revealing a flash of fluorescent pink on their undersides (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch designer Chris Kabel has created a circular bench made from one 10 metre-long wooden beam. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A sharing platform that allows members to rent works of art and furniture has soft launched in London. Read more View the full article

These handmade electrical plugs allow you to plug a second appliance into the back. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

SpaceContinuum Design Studio and Shape Architecture Practice and Research have designed a pavilion in the emirate of Sharjah to house Random International's Rain Room insulation. Read more View the full article

Hopkins Architects has completed the Buhais Geology Park Interpretive Centre on a former prehistoric sea in the emirate of Sharjah, UAE. Read more View the full article

The Sharjah Architecture Triennial is located in two prominent examples of the emirate's surviving 1970s and '80s architecture. Here are six prominent buildings from the era that are being conserved. Read more View the full article

Bayalpata Hospital is a medical complex in Achham, Nepal, built from rammed earth by American architecture office Sharon Davis Design. Read more View the full article

New York architect Sharon Davis has completed a new housing complex for doctors and nurses in a village in rural Rwanda, which was built by local residents using regional materials (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Kengo Kuma & Associates has designed a kindergarten in the Japanese city Saitama with a series of roofs that pitch steeply in opposing directions. Read more View the full article

Graduate shows 2016: Taiwanese designer Shawn Yang has created a giant version of a Spirograph toy that makes three-dimensional patterns on homeware (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: this week Harrods opened the doors to its first gender-neutral toy department, designed by London and Singapore-based interior architects Shed. (more…) View the full article

Seattle architecture firm SHED has designed this compact home for a couple who wanted to live in a smaller dwelling on their own property. Read more View the full article