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Volvo has installed an environmentally friendly seawall along the coast of Sydney's harbour that aims to improve biodiversity and water quality in the area. Read more

OMA has used sprayed concrete, polycarbonate and movable walls to transform four warehouses on Dubai's Alserkal Avenue into a cultural centre. Read more View the full article

Eight poles and a board made of forest waste bolt together to make a flat-pack table by Japanese designers Hiroyuki Miyabe and Jun Yoshimura of SPEAC. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2013: a coffee table topped with a giant hard-boiled sweet and a white chocolate chair are among items in a series of edible furniture by design studio Lanzavecchia + Wai (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Norwegian firm Eriksen Skajaa Architects has redesigned the offices of the team behind the Bergen International Festival, creating an environment that's meant to resemble the backstage areas of a concert. (more...) View the full article

Dutch architecture studio GAAGA has completed a three-winged wooden tea house in Leiden, the Netherlands, featuring large windows on all sides to allow panoramic views of the surrounding park (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Rooms are housed within stark concrete boxes at this São Paulo artist's studio by AR Arquitetos, while a glazed atrium creates a light-filled space for painting (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: JDS Architects has unveiled plans for an M-shaped office building with green terraces in the north of Turkey's largest city. (more...) View the full article

Goldsmith Street is a Passivhaus and high-density social housing scheme by Mikhail Riches in Norwich, England, which is shortlisted for this year's Stirling Prize. Read more

British studio Jonathan Tuckey Design worked with a small team and a tight budget to build this timber-lined gatehouse for a west London primary school. (more...) View the full article

College graduate John Quick has created a collection of donut-shaped pipes, with ceramic glazes to resemble frosting, for smoking marijuana. Read more

MIT scientists have unveiled a nimble robotic fish containing a camera, which can swim alongside real fish to capture close-up footage. Read more View the full article

Architect Julius Taminiau borrowed principles from traditional Japanese tatami rooms to create a well-proportioned layout featuring space-saving built-in furniture at his floating home in Amsterdam. Read more View the full article

Spanish designer Unai Rollan has created a chair that is delivered in 11 same-sized self-assembly pieces to teach children the basics of furniture construction. Read more View the full article

Construction has started on a digitally connected co-living and co-working retreat in the Himalayas, designed by Italian architect Carlo Ratti. (more…) View the full article

An urban residential building by Californian firm SPF Architects features design strategies to eliminate a sense of repetition or homogeneity – qualities that can make apartment living "relatively unpleasant". Read more

Milan 2014: Space Caviar's algorithmic publishing project will be travelling to Venice for the architecture biennale, with the final issues from Milan design week now available to download – including contributions from Formafantasma and Martino Gamper (+ slideshow + download). (more...) View the full article

Maze-like stairways and optical illusions are designed to trick the eyes of lodgers at this MC Escher-inspired guesthouse in the city of Guilin, China. Read more

British architect David Chipperfield has completed a new gallery building at the Saint Louis Art Museum in Missouri (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Belgian designer Dries Van Noten adapted Verner Panton's characteristically vibrant prints to create a range of colourful garments for his Spring/Summer 2019 menswear collection. Read more View the full article

Competition: Dezeen is giving five readers the chance to win two sets of their Instagram photos printed onto custom Polaroid and roll film-style prints. (more...) View the full article

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

Over three years after completing their first prefabricated dwelling, architects Mário Sousa and Marta Brandão have now installed modular homes all across Portugal. Their latest is a summerhouse in scenic Alentejo (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The kitchen inside this Melbourne apartment is designed to look more like a gallery, where furniture and fittings appear as art objects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The head of Saif Faisal's Poise lamp moves freely along a wooden column, allowing the light to be intensified or diffused (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article