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Canada's Alleles Design Studio has developed a collection of prosthetic leg covers designed to add a human silhouette and a variety of patterns to mechanical artificial limbs (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A spiralling stack of chunky wooden blocks forms this staircase designed by architecture studio QC for an apartment in Poland. (more...) View the full article

Vibrant green stripes and angular roofs add character to the exterior of this school that architecture firm CEBRA has completed in Aabybro, Denmark (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Precht – the architecture studio of Penda co-founders Frei and Chris Precht – has developed a concept for modular housing where residents would produce their own food in vertical farms. Read more

Chicago City Council members have voted in favour of MAD Architects' controversial design for the George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art on the shore of Lake Michigan. (more…) View the full article

News: Swiss studio Virtual Design Unit has digitally modelled an unbuilt Zurich theatre designed by Jørn Utzon in 1964, to show that the building "could be built now" (+ slideshow + interview). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: designjunction will return to the London Design Festival from 24 to 27 September 2015 with a series of installations, activities and "flash factories" across two new locations. (more…) View the full article

Johanna Agerman Ross is leaving her post as editor of quarterly design journal Disegno to join the V&A as curator of 20th century and contemporary furniture and 20th century product design. (more…) View the full article

An asymmetric tunnel leads through an all-black facade to a bright and spacious interior at this house in Chiba Prefecture, Japan (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Music: this video by New Zealand musician Nigel Stanford shows a series of experiments that demonstrate how sound waves affect different types of matter. (more...) View the full article

Blee Halligan Architects has renovated and extended a house on Highbury Hill in north London, using black gridded glazing and pale brickwork to frame views into the back garden (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London-based designer Jordi Canudas dipped glass spheres into layers of semi-translucent paint to create this colourful lighting series for Marset. Read more

German studio J. Mayer H. Architekten has unveiled images of a temporary gallery made from scaffolding at a modern art museum in Munich (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Renaissance artist El Greco lived and worked in the Spanish city of Toledo and Pardo + Tapia Arquitectos has refurbished and added a glazed entrance pavilion to the small museum that houses some of his most important paintings (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

An open fire welcomes visitors to this egg-shaped hut built by Danish studio SHJWorks on the edge of a Copenhagen park (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Our movie for Philips Lumiblade about how OLED lighting technology will change interior design leads the lastest issue of Dezeen Mail, which also includes sex toys, twisting skyscrapers and all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 132 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Eindhoven designer Olivier van Herpt has developed a machine that uses a piston-based extruder to 3D-print complex functional objects using clay (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: applications are now being accepted for HENN's Design Research Exchange summer residency programme focussing on strategies for high-rise development. (more…) View the full article

An old brick and timber house appears to have been cut in two inside the new Shanghai flagship store for shoe brand Camper, designed by Chinese architects Neri&Hu (+ slideshow) (more...) View the full article

Apple has unveiled the new Mac Pro, its most powerful desktop computer to date, contained in a simple aluminium-covered box. Read more

Milan 2013: Swedish collective Front will launch six new products in Milan next week, including leather stools shaped like squidgy animals and a plywood table with burnt-on with doodles (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Movie: Konrad Buhagiar of Architecture Project explains how he built a 60 metre-high outdoor lift in historic Valletta, Malta, in our latest interview with category winners at last month's Inside Festival in Singapore. (more...) View the full article

Czech architecture studio DDAANN has converted the lower level of a spacious apartment in Prague to create a guest house and a meeting point for group cycling trips. (more…) View the full article

Architecture studio Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen designed the new Tim Van Laere Gallery in Antwerp as five raw concrete boxes with pink shuttered doors. Read more

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with the Royal College of Art, Selldorf Architects and architecture collective Assemble, which has been nominated for this year's Turner Prize. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Marcel Wanders, Heatherwick Studio, Michael Anastassiades and more... (more…) View the full article