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Lego has created a version of its building bricks printed with letters and numbers from the braille alphabet, so blind and partially sighted children can learn to read as they play. Read more

Breaking news: Pritzker Prize-winning architect IM Pei has passed away aged 102. More to follow.

London studio Red&White is behind the new minimal logo of telecommunications company BT. Studio founder Paul Franklin told Dezeen that confidence was the key to rebranding the British icon. Read more

Architecture firm Snøhetta has unveiled a plans to renovate and extend a mid-century arts and performance complex in Honolulu, Hawaii. Read more

Ivy Studio has used moulding, brass lights and herringbone floors to make this dry cleaning shop in Montreal evocative of a European residence. Read more

Seattle firm Signal Architecture + Research has completed a small education and events centre, clad in painted metal and wood, within the "rugged and fragile landscape" of a protected area in northern Oregon. Read more

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Kazuyo Sejima has designed the Laview commuter train with huge passenger windows and a curved glass nose, which is now in operation between Tokyo and Saitama. Read more

Dezeen Day is our international architecture and design conference taking place in London on 30 October. Scroll down for information about speakers, sessions, networking events, the venue and tickets. Read more

Our natural world is "fixable, but it will never be the same" said Paola Antonelli at our Dezeen Day conference. Watch Antonelli discuss design's response to impending extinction in the first movie from the event. Read more View the full article

The body of Tesla's radical Cybertruck is made up of straight-edged facets. Here are some other examples of faceted architecture and design. Read more View the full article

Architect Roberto Palomba describes his firm's approach to renovating the Palazzo Daniele hotel in Puglia, Italy, in this video produced by Dezeen for the AHEAD Awards. Read more View the full article

London photography studio Hufton + Crow has revealed new photographs of downtown Miami's One Thousand Museum tower by Zaha Hadid Architects. Read more View the full article

These five houses in San Francisco are traditional in the front and have contemporary extensions in the back. Read more View the full article

SOdA School of Design is presenting Liquid Memory, an exhibition of student work, as part of VDF's collaboration with Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

The creative director of design studio Framework has turned a neglected 19th-century warehouse in Amsterdam into a plush family home for his wife and two children. Read more View the full article

New York firm No Architecture has designed this house in Oregon's Willamette Valley wine country around a glazed garden fill with deciduous trees. Read more View the full article

In our fourth and final movie made to coincide with the Ron Arad: Restless exhibition at the Barbican in London, Arad describes how he tailored the exhibition to the gallery space. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Week ten of Virtual Design Festival features talks with architects and designers including Mariam Kamara, Lee Broom and Winy Maas, as well as collaborations with brands such as Stellar Works, Vitra and Rado, and organisations Mindcraft, London Festival of Architecture and What Design Can Do. Read more View the full article

DezeenTV: in the next movie in our series of Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents young Canadian designer Philippe Malouin talks about the inspiration he finds in art and architecture and also talks us through some of his own work. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This office in a Shanghai warehouse, designed by Fei Wang of Atelier Ten, features a staircase that narrows from four metres wide at its foot to two metes at the top. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: the Design Products department at the Royal College of Art in London have launched a collection of pieces for sale, designed by the course’s graduates. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Facet Studio have completed the interior of a vintage shop in Osaka, Japan, using cedarwood, rice paper and linen. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Moving on to our top five Dezeen stories from August this year, this house with a spiralling concrete slide by Indonesian architects Aboday was also our most popular story of the whole year. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

San Francisco designer Yves Behar of Fuseproject has designed a product that allows users to control their TV from their iPhone. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: over on Dezeen Screen we’ve just published another beautiful video by Gwenael Lewis for Canadian lighting company Bocci. This one features the 28 Series chandelier being installed at Spazio Rosanna Orlandi in Milan earlier this month, during the city’s international furniture fair. Watch the movie </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article