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American studio Heliotrope Architects has created a holiday home for art gallery owners that is wrapped in dark metal, punctured with white stucco and large stretches of glass. Read more View the full article

New York City has introduced a bill that will rank and grade large buildings according to their energy efficiency standards. Read more View the full article

A house by Studio Puisto in Finland, sits between a lake and a dense spruce forest and is clad in black-oiled wood and topped by sloping zinc roofs. Read more View the full article

Heavy concrete walls anchor this family home in Queensland, Australia, to its beachside setting, while hiding it from a busy road nearby. Read more View the full article

Nike used factory scraps and recycled "space waste yarn" to create the Space Hippie sneakers in an experimental project to reduce the carbon impact of its products. Read more View the full article

Air New Zealand has filed a patent application for the Skynest sleeping pod, which would allow economy passengers to stretch out and during long-haul flights. Read more View the full article

Italian architect Lorenzo Guzzini has completed a villa overlooking Lake Como in Italy, with a facade of grey moraine stone and an infinity pool. Read more View the full article

With health workers in many parts of the world facing shortages of personal protective equipment as they treat coronavirus patients, architects, designers, institutions and brands around the world are making face shields. Read more View the full article

New York's Joe Doucet has designed a less "uncomfortable and awkward" face shield to protect against coronavirus that could be worn like a pair of sunglasses. Read more View the full article

September's Maison&Objet interior design fair has been postponed and will instead take place online, while Paris Design Week is to go ahead. Read more View the full article

Here are some images of a visitors centre with walkways built through and around a castle in Fundão, Portugal, by Portuguese studio Comoco Architects. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designer Matali Crasset has designed a chair and footstool with chunks of upholstery slotted into a plywood frame for French brand Domeau & Pérès. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Toby Horrocks and designer Kristian Aus have created this fold-out cardboard shop interior for the State of Design festival in Melbourne. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen are in Venice for the opening of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010 where Lisbon firm Aires Mateus Architects are exhibiting these houses with sandy floors, photographed by Nelson Garrido. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This bench by London studio Raw Edges comprises three different benches that interlock to create a pattern of horizontal and vertical stripes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This multimedia library in Anzin, France, by Strasbourg architects Dominique Coulon & Associés is wrapped in overlapping slices of concrete. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design agency Continuum have created conceptual packaging for a single cigarette for smokers who are trying to quit. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Artists Studio Job of Belgium have launched this rotational-moulded chair for Dutch design brand Moooi. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Rectangular voids are carved out of the stone facade of this monolithic pavilion in the Netherlands by Rotterdam-based Shift architecture urbanism. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An oversailing glass roof and steel mesh curtain protect a two-storey extension and terrace at a historic Sydney house. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The ceiling of a drama studio in Milan is imprinted with inverted bubbles that house both spotlights and skylights. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French studio FREAKS freearchitects have inserted a rectangular timber tunnel inside this Paris cosmetics shop. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A faceted glass shroud cloaks these former shipbuilding warehouses in Elsinore, Denmark, which architects AART have converted into a cultural centre. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: in this movie filmed by cultural collective Pacific Standard Time, rapper Ice Cube explains his love of architect and how the work of renowned architects Charles and Ray Eames inspires him. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: the latest instalment in our series of interviews with exhibitors at Dezeen Platform features London-based Canadian designer Philippe Malouin, who showed his modular bowls made of waxed concrete at Dezeen Space last autumn. Watch the movie » You can now watch the entire series on Dezeen Screen here. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article