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Berlin-based designer Sybille Paulsen has worked with people undergoing chemotherapy treatment to create bespoke jewellery from their own hair. (more…) View the full article

A portable router designed to bring constant internet connectivity to tough locations in Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond was presented at the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town this week. (more...) View the full article

German architect Frei Otto, who died on Monday, has been named the 2015 Pritzker Prize laureate. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival 2016: architect Asif Khan has created three temporary pavilions thick with plants to give the harried London public space to relax, work and socialise (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Danish brand Reform has teamed up with David Thulstrup, Note Design and Muller Van Severen for its latest set of hacked IKEA kitchens, which feature mix-and-match coloured doors and a monochromatic metal cabinet. Read more

IKEA has collaborated with Sonos to create a pair of Symfonisk hybrid speakers that each double as a homeware item. Read more

Architecture studio Snøhetta of Oslo and New York has revealed designs for a community library in Queens, New York, with a shimmering golden exterior and a triangular entrance at one corner. (more...) View the full article

Benjamin Hubert's design studio Layer has created a series of cocoon-like pendant lights for Danish furniture brand Muuto, inspired by the silkworm's act of "self-wrapping". Read more

The residents of Thessaloniki, Greece, can now recycle their plastic waste into 3D printed furniture for the city, using a new laboratory set up by Rotterdam studio The New Raw. Read more

US firm Caleb Johnson Studio has raised this cedar-clad coastal dwelling in Maine on wooden stilts so that the "landscape is allowed to flow under the house". Read more

This art museum by architect Renzo Piano straddles a canal in Oslo’s harbour (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London-based Atmos Studio has designed a timber pavilion named Playascape, which aims to "synthesise the essence of Burning Man" by bringing people together at the festival. Read more

Laces are threaded through the uppers of these shoes by Japanese designers Nendo for Spanish shoe company Camper, creating patterns across the whole surface (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Music Project: English electronic group Metronomy's latest single Reservoir is accompanied by an animated music video created with felt-tip pens by director Daniel Brereton. (more...) View the full article

The Central Park Tower designed by architecture firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill has topped out at 1,550 feet in Midtown Manhattan, making it the tallest residential building ever. Read more

This installation at California's Donum Estate by American artist Doug Aitken arranges a series of hanging wind chimes. Read more

News: Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer has died in Rio de Janeiro aged 104. (more…) View the full article

Clerkenwell Design Week 2016: new research is driving a major rethink of office design, and interesting workplace interiors and furniture dominated this year's Clerkenwell Design Week. (more…) View the full article

Bioplastics could potentially be worse for the environment than conventional plastics, according to recycling expert Arthur Huang. Read more

With Dutch Design Week just around the corner, we've rounded up five of the event's best exhibitions, including a gastronomic venture from Maarten Baas and a show exploring erotic displeasure. Read more View the full article

Movie: in our next exclusive interview from Inside Festival, Per Anders Borgen of Ratio Architects explains how the design team used raw materials to "remove the institutional look" from the interior of a student facility at St. Olav's Hospital in Trondheim, Norway. (more...) View the full article

Archive drawings of bygone creatures feature in The Museum of Extinct Animals, a new range of wall coverings and textiles from Dutch brand Moooi. Read more View the full article

A geometric facade formed of hollow concrete blocks allows breezes to naturally cool the interior of this house in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, by local firm VACO Design (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Layers of springy nets stretched across an atrium at the centre of this beach house in Thailand by Bangkok studio Onion create a vertical playground that can be used to travel from the top floor to the bottom (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Tall shoots of bamboo rise through the central atrium of a new Apple Store completed by Foster + Partners in Chinese city Macau. Read more View the full article