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Airbus has unveiled a bird-like concept for a hybrid-electric airliner that aims to show the potential of using biomimicry in aviation design. Read more

German practice IFUB has completed a pair of timber homes in Munich that are subtly differentiated by the direction of their diagonal larch cladding and different coloured blinds. Read more

Preservation and hospitality organisation Wildland has collaborated with Groves-Raines Architects to convert former clergy living-quarters into an intimate guesthouse in the Scottish highlands. Read more

Luxury fashion group Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy has named Hed Mayner the first winner of the Karl Lagerfeld Prize for emerging fashion designers, which has been renamed after the late designer. Read more

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have demonstrated an experimental way of manufacturing cement that releases no carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Read more

Colombo and Serboli Architecture has used richly-hued paintwork to bring life to the previously charred interior of this apartment in Barcelona. Read more View the full article

Leading and emerging women working in architecture and construction will discuss the experience of working in both fields at a talk held in Knauf's London showroom. Tune in here live from 7pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: London's River Cafe restaurant, designed by architect Richard Rogers, has launched its annual limited-edition gift boxes containing a selection of the same Italian ingredients used daily in its kitchen. Read more View the full article

Our pick of the best Christmas cards we've received from architects, designers and brands this year includes Chris Precht's treehouse and a festive Notre-Dame Cathedral. Read more View the full article

Studio Drift has created Ego, a kinetic sculpture made of 10 miles of ultra-fine nylon, for the Dutch National Touring Opera's production of L'Orfeo. Read more View the full article

Chenchow Little Architects has completed a house in the Glebe suburb of Sydney featuring upside-down arches in the walls and curved openings in the floors. Read more View the full article

Hui Kao's has created the Paper Pleats furniture collection from paper bound with rice glue, which was developed as a result of the designer's sensitivity to chemicals and desire to create recyclable products. Read more View the full article

With Tinseltown under lockdown due to coronavirus, a new genre of "virus fiction" or "ViFi" could emerge, says speculative architect and director Liam Young in the first of a series of video messages from creatives around the world recorded as part of our Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

Istanbul studio Zift Design is launching its latest product collections as part of VDF's collaboration with Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

A huge arched window punctuates the grey-brick exterior of and education centre built by Adam Richards Architects in the grounds of a 16th-century castle in the English town of Deal, Kent. Read more View the full article

Our current featured architects Suppose Design Office of Japan have designed a residence in Hiroshima with two rooms that appear to be outdoors. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Interiors studio Esoteriko has selected light colours and natural materials for every room in this house in Sydney, apart from one bright blue bedroom. Read more View the full article

Photographer Nelson Garrido has sent us his photographs of an airport tower in Alguaire, Spain, designed by b720 Arquitectos. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Buildings adapted to marine environments and paper structures designed for funeral ceremonies are among the sustainability-focused architecture proposals in this VDF school show by Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Read more View the full article

An exhibition of new work by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec has opened at Galerie Kreo in Paris. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This building for Tokyo by Japanese architects Geneto will be cloaked in steel mesh with ivy growing over it. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Norwegian firm Snøhetta have been selected to design an extension to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – more details in press release below (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architects Shinichi Ogawa & Associates have completed this house in Hiroshima, Japan, with one wall glazed in sliding panels that open onto a grassy courtyard. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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Here are some photos of the Miami Beach SoundScape park by Dutch landscape architects West 8, located next to Frank Gehry‘s New World Centre (see our earlier story) in Miami Beach, Florida. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article