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News: Google-owned communications company Motorola is working with Design Academy Eindhoven graduate and Phonebloks creator Dave Hakkens to develop open-source modular mobile phones. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Suzanne Lee of BioCouture explains how she makes clothes that are "grown using bacteria" in this movie filmed at the Wearable Futures conference in London in December. (more...) View the full article

Our job of the week on the new and improved Dezeen Jobs is for an industrial designer at Benjamin Hubert's studio Layer, which this week unveiled designs for the "world's first" 3D-printed consumer wheelchair. Visit the ad for full details or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

With Dezeen Awards early entry discount ending this Friday we're announcing or final judges with fashion designer Virgil Abloh, architect Sou Fujimoto, artist Lucy McRae and SO-IL co-founder Jing Liu joining our panel of 75 leading figures from architecture and design. Read more

The windswept sand dunes of Quebec's Magdalen Islands informed the outline of this second home for a retired couple, designed by Canadian firm Bourgeois/Lechasseur Architects. Read more View the full article

Guests at this hotel near the Spanish city of Alicante stay in prefabricated cabins, which are raised off the ground to reduce their impact on the rugged landscape and enable views over the adjacent valley (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

German architecture studio J Mayer H has built a house on a cliff next door to the glass-domed Presidential Palace in Tbilsi. Read more

Western cities have done a better job of integrating technology into their infrastructure than the new wave of Asian smart cities, according to architect and television presenter Jason Pomeroy. Read more View the full article

News: American manufacturer 3D Systems has unveiled the world's first 3D printers for food at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. (more...) View the full article

A brass table with a gently rippled surface provides the reading area of this Japanese library dedicated to the sea and designed by Swedish studio ETAT arkitekter (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London-based Marks Barfield Architects has designed a temporary glazed pavilion raised up on criss-crossing steel columns that looks set be built near the firm's London Eye observation wheel on the South Bank. (more...) View the full article

An exhibition at London's Science Museum explores the future of autonomous mobility, and the designs that are paving the way. Curator Margaret Campbell selects five pieces from the show and reveals the stories behind them. Read more

Piers Taylor's firm Invisible Studio has added a pair of woodland maintenance buildings to the National Arboretum in Gloucestershire, England, using only trees felled in the routine maintenance of the estate (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architects have an urgent mission, says Chris Precht, to bring food production back into the centre of our cities. Read more

Blue-tinted glass and iridescent stainless steel feature in Chinese design studio Buzao's latest furniture collections, which were launched at Design Shanghai this week. Read more

Industrial designer Marc Newson has created soft-shell versions of Louis Vuitton's suitcases, making them lighter and more spacious on the inside. Read more

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a director at The Architecture Foundation in London (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

News: Danish studio COBE has won a contest to design a new landmark building at Adidas' global headquarters, with plans for a rhombus-shaped structure filled with winter gardens (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Lego fans can now build outwards from walls, chair legs, household objects or the backs of other toys using a new studded tape. Read more View the full article

American architect Jeanne Gang has been listed on Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people for 2019. Read more

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Salomé Galjaard of engineering firm Arup says 3D printing building components will result in more efficient and diverse architectural forms (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

During this year's Milan design week, Nendo will submerge 30 of its new vases in an aquarium so that they gently move around like jellyfish. Read more View the full article

Zaha Hadid 1950-2016: leading architects including Norman Foster, Bjarke Ingels, Richard Rogers and Daniel Libeskind have paid tribute to the late Zaha Hadid in a video created by Dezeen and Architizer. (more…) View the full article

Haworth white papers: co-working spaces popular with small companies and individual workers could help large corporations be more innovative, according to a report by office furniture giant Haworth. (more…) View the full article

The world's largest solar furnace and wave-reflecting chambers are captured in this series of images documenting the architecture of science and research facilities by British photographer Alastair Philip Wiper (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article