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Dutch fashion designer Pauline van Dongen has created more clothing with integrated solar panels, designing a windbreaker that can charge wearers' phones and GPS devices (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Japanese studio Sides Core has created a space inside a hair salon for the owner's books, art and music (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architecture firm Foster + Partners has created the minimal Tono bathroom range for Spanish brand Porcelanosa (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

It's Halloween, a time when many cultures honour the dead. To mark the occasion, we take a tour through some of the most interesting final resting places dreamed up by designers, including a biodegradable urn that turns a deceased loved one into a tree and colourful zip-up coffins designed to make death less depressing. Read more View the full article

Porto architecture studio Fala Atelier has overhauled a fragmented 19th-century Lisbon flat, creating a long narrow living area framed by a subtly curved wall. Read more View the full article

This week on Dezeen, little-known Catalan firm RCR Arquitectes won this Pritzker Prize 2017 and we rounded up the firm's key projects. Read more View the full article

During the renovation of this Montreal home, local firm L McComber Architects reinterpreted its mock-Tudor facades with an expansion that echoes the architectural style. Read more View the full article

Following its proposal for flying warehouses, online retailer Amazon has filed a patent that would see its depots submerged underwater, with items summoned to the surface by acoustic vibrations. Read more View the full article

New York design studio TBD has transformed an apartment in Manhattan's West Village with white interiors and a new rooftop patio, complete with an outdoor shower and hot tub. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: this range of roof windows by glazing brand Fakro is designed to work with a range of building types. Read more View the full article

The indigenous grassland of southeast Victoria is recreated inside Australia's Venice Architecture Biennale pavilion. Read more View the full article

A courtyard sits at the centre of this converted canal house apartment in the centre of Amsterdam by local firm Standard Studio. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: École des Ponts ParisTech is now accepting applications for its Design by Data masters programme, where architects, designers and engineers push the bounds of new technologies. Read more

The latest instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living series features a sustainable 3D-printed house made with soil and agricultural waste. Read more

With more people living into cities, architects are increasingly finding inventive ways to squeeze homes into small spaces. Here are the floor plans of 10 micro homes that most of every square metre. Read more

Geometric shapes balance precariously atop misshapen forms in this abstract sculpture series by Swedish designer Malou Palmqvist. Read more

Dublin practice Tierney Haines Architects has completed Library Lookout, a cedar-clad study space and library with a green roof, for two authors in Connemara, Ireland. Read more

Architecture studio NADAAA has renovated a Neo-Gothic brick building and added a sculptural addition with a jagged roof to house the design school at the University of Toronto. Read more

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam has named Dutch curator Rein Wolfs as its new director, following the departure of Beatrix Ruf. Read more

Polo Architects and Going East have paired cobbled stone walls with neutral interiors to camouflage this cluster of guest villas against Cape Verde's rocky terrain. Read more

A sinuous facade of stepped terraces envelops MAD's UNIC apartment tower, which is nearing completion in Paris, France. Read more

Dezeen Jobs has a variety of job opportunities available in the Netherlands right now. The most exciting openings include roles with MORE Architecture, OMA and Marcel Wanders. Read more

Martino Gamper, Bethan Laura Wood, Soft Baroque and Michael Marriott are among the designers that have created masks for an exhibition at London Design Festival. Read more

Terry Farrell and Nicholas Grimshaw built Park Road Apartments, which contained their own homes, in the 1970s. We continue our high-tech architecture series by looking at the metal-clad housing block. Read more View the full article

Chilean architect Alberto Moletto has created a concrete-framed educational facility at a Catholic university that is designed to go "unnoticed for those who walk through the campus". Read more View the full article