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French practice Didier Faustino has offset pink marble walls with olive green furnishings to create a "neutral and sensual" aesthetic for this bar in Ghent, Belgium. Read more View the full article

NASA is planning tests of an experimental electric aeroplane, which it believes could lead to reduced flight times and carbon emissions for future air travel (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Firm Architekten has extended a gabled farmhouse in Bezau, Austria, with a matching structure clad in timber louvres that double as shutters. Read more

Architecture studio MORQ has built an almost windowless house surrounding a plant-filled courtyard from rammed concrete in Perth, Australia. Read more

Italian design studio Something has created a coffee set for Danish brand Stelton that aims to reintroduce caffeine lovers to the brewing process. (more…) View the full article

San Francisco-based Montalba Architects has transformed a standard trailer into a mobile dental clinic, complete with two operating rooms and a reception area (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Slideshow feature: we've published a couple of projects that bring trees indoors this week so here's a slideshow of arboreal interiors from the Dezeen archives. (more...) View the full article

Sports brand Nike has unveiled the first boots for American football players with 3D-printed studs (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Maison&Objet 2015: Danish design brand Menu has launched a soft furnishings collection produced in Nepal, to offer Nepali craftswomen an alternative to working in the sex trade (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

For her graduate work at the Royal College of Art, Dani Clode created a wearable third thumb that can help its user carry more objects, squeeze lemons or play complex chords on the guitar. Read more View the full article

Architect Fernando Menis has developed a concept for a residential tower complex with rock-like walls, a cavernous swimming pool and plants growing out of every crevice. (more…) View the full article

Celebrate Easter by gorging on all of our chocolate-related stories. Dezeen's confection selection includes a cafe with walls that appear to ooze melted chocolate, edible Lego bricks and a geometric hen-shaped Easter egg. See more design with chocolate » View the full article

Dublin practice GKMP Architects has added two tiny extensions to a nineteenth century terraced house in the city, one of which incorporates a wooden window seat looking out onto the garden. (more...) View the full article

This week we've selected four of the best roles for interior architects available on Dezeen Jobs, including positions at luxury department store Harrods and Design Haus Liberty. Read more

We've chosen five of the best roles for interior designers available on Dezeen Jobs this week, including positions at Dimore Studio and Joyce Wang Studio. Read more

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an architect at Amsterdam-based UNStudio, whose recent projects include a retail and residential complex that combines curving forms with golden-hued aluminium (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Northumbria graduate Harry Jones has produced a collection of clothing and lifestyle accessories using the life jackets left on European beaches during the refugee crisis. Read more

Architecture studio Bornstein Lyckefors has designed a series of restaurants in Sweden and Denmark that centre around a terrain for playing pétanque. Read more

Concrete boxes are arranged on either side of a long glazed corridor to form this concrete house by Belgian studio Sculp IT, which is made up of both indoor and outdoor spaces (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architect Jon Danielsen Aarhus designed this pine-clad cabin in rural Norway for his own family, creating a large glazed living area with mountain and lake views. Read more View the full article

New York architect Rafael de Cárdenas has transformed a tired 20th-century brownstone house into a home for himself, featuring "multiple living rooms of varying moods". Read more View the full article

An exhibition of videos and still images, by a London-based studio specialising in 3D scans, enhances and celebrates the mistakes and glitches made by digital equipment (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

This week's Dezeen Mail includes Renzo Piano's luxury tower for Miami, palatial homes for the super rich (pictured) and a sex toy that can be mounted like a vaulting horse. There's also the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 278 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

New York's Museum of Modern Art will close over the summer in order to complete its Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed overhaul, then fully re-open four months later. Read more

News: architecture studio SO-IL's installation for the New York architecture gallery has been vandalised within weeks of opening – but the firm's co-founder says he "knew" it would be a target for graffiti. (more…) View the full article