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Italian architect Stefano Boeri has unveiled plans to create a forested smart city in Cancun, Mexico, that is designed to be a "pioneer" of more eco-efficient developments. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Day generated eight tonnes of carbon emissions, according to a "quick and dirty" environmental audit of the conference. Read more View the full article

A red "cannonball" pulley system is among the distinctive features of a 1950s beach house by American architect Paul Rudolph that will be auctioned off next week by Sotheby's. Read more View the full article

Product design studio Tiipoi has worked with Indian master craftsman Mathew Sasa to create a collection of ceramic vessels using a technique found in a remote village in northeastern India. Read more View the full article

This week on Dezeen, London's best new home extensions and renovations were revealed in the shortlist for this year's Don't Move, Improve! competition. Read more View the full article

American designer Marc Thorpe has created a simple, off-the-grid dwelling in Upstate New York that is meant to exist "in perfect balance with its environment". Read more View the full article

Architecture studio MYT+GLVDK has created an upscale food court inside a Mexico City shopping mall with elements that take cues from Japanese and Mexican design traditions. Read more View the full article

Plants are expected to grow up the sides of this treehouse-inspired house extension in Melbourne, by AM Architecture. Read more View the full article

Forty-two identical windows puncture the exterior of this house in Japan by Tato Architects, which also features a staircase that leads onto a piece of furniture (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The architecture community has paid tribute to William "Bill" Menking, co-founder of The Architect's Newspaper, who has died aged 72 of cancer. Read more View the full article

Haberdashery introduces its contemporary lighting collection, Poetic Narratives, as part of VDF's collaboration with Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

Amsterdam arts centre Mediamatic has set up a socially-distanced dining experience where guests sit in their own greenhouse and hosts wear face shields. Read more View the full article

An exhibition about the work of structural engineer Cecil Balmond of Arup is on show at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery in Japan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Week eight of the Virtual Design Festival starts this Monday with a collaboration with ArkDes, Sweden's national centre for architecture and design, taking visitors on a virtual 360-degree tour of the opening of its new exhibition, and much more. Read more View the full article

We’ve teamed up once again with London company Mr Jones Watches to give away two special edition Cyclops watches and two Always On My Mind watches, worth £130 each. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This year's London Design Festival will go ahead as scheduled in September, but with a more local focus and greater online activity in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more View the full article

Eindhoven studio DHV Architecten have completed a laboratory for nanotechnology in Delft, the Netherlands. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design collective Outofstock have completed the interiors for a restaurant in Singapore, where the windows are covered by wooden panels with egg-shaped cutouts. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British studio Fletcher Crane Architects have won a competition to design a waterside office building on the river Aire in Leeds, UK. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group have won a competition to design a power plant for Copenhagen with their design that will double up as a ski slope. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house in Tokyo by Japanese practice Torafu Architects creates built-in furniture through the overlapping of interior spaces. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: American furniture brand Knoll have been awarded the National Design Award for Corporate and Institutional Achievement by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture student Ben Kirk has designed conceptual towers to replace the fast-declining bee population by shooting artificial pollinators into the air. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A triangulated glass and steel restaurant sits beside a river in a remote forested gorge in southern China. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A music recital room resembling a Japanese tea house hangs like a lantern in the garden of a residence northwest of Washington DC. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article