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New York 2013: this compact wall-mounted bedside lamp launched at ICFF can be swivelled to angle light where it's needed. (more...) View the full article

Work has completed on the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture by British architect David Adjaye, which is poised to open next month (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with the V&A, Studio Urquiola and Duggan Morris Architects, whose community facility in south London combines exposed concrete frames with raw brickwork (pictured). This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Tom Dixon, Marcel Wanders, MVRDV and more... (more…) View the full article

Music: horses canter along highways and through city streets in French director Quentin Baillieux's music video for Can You Do It by Charles X (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has revealed designs for the Mars Science City, which will operate as a space simulation campus near Dubai where scientists will work on "humanity's march into space". Read more View the full article

These three Rotterdam bus shelters were designed by Dutch studio Maxwan with concave and convex "razor-thin" rooftops reminiscent of billowing fabric (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Patent applications have been filed on behalf of a machine called Dabus that used AI to design a plastic food container and a flashing light. If successful it would be the first time a machine has been recognised as the owner of a design by patent offices. Read more

A "raincoat" designed to protect pavements during harsh weather is among a series of design prototypes that Alphabet company Sidewalk Labs has revealed for its new city in Toronto. Read more

Architecture firm Grimshaw has completed an ecological park in South Korea where tropical plants, waterfalls and penguins are housed within huge glass and steel biomes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Each of the pieces in this basalt tableware range by British designer Max Lamb has been cast from a hand-carved mould. (more…) View the full article

A furry, fox-like creature moves frantically in this ad, created by branding agency Superunion and animation designer Esteban Diacono for a performance of opera The Cunning Little Vixen. Read more

News: America has nominated 10 buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright for international listed status – including the influential architect's Guggenheim Museum in New York and his only free-standing skyscraper (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London designer Paul Cocksedge is exhibiting a series of furniture created by joining different metals through a freezing process at New York's Friedman Benda gallery. (more…) View the full article

Tel Aviv studio Aqua Creations has launched a series of sculptural lighting fixtures that can be used individually or stacked on top of one another. Read more

The City of London has introduced a set of guidelines for proposed developments to protect pedestrians and cyclists from wind tunnels created by the increasing number of skyscrapers. Read more

Designer Tom Evans has developed a range of parenting gadgets that look like collectable toys. (more...) View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers are debating whether a fashion student who deliberately failed to present a collection at her graduate show deserves to pass. Read more

Stuart Semple has released the "flattest, mattest, black acrylic paint in the world" and banned Anish Kapoor from using it, as the latest development in an ongoing feud between the two British artists. Read more

NASA has selected the five winning designs in the latest stage of its 3D-printed Habitat competition, which include a community of modular pods made from the Martian surface, and a vertical egg-like container. Read more View the full article

Portuguese studio Aires Mateus has transformed a house in Portugal into a bright white building with a sprawling extension (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch studio Bureau SLA has inserted a smooth white house-shaped art gallery into a timber nineteenth-century Dutch military building. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen archive: here's a roundup of some of the most beautiful Barcelona apartments we've featured with decorative geometric floor tiles (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A giant ombre wall divider that rotates to create a mirrored surface features in a new collection based on circular forms that marks the fifth anniversary of Brussels' Maniera gallery. Read more

This interactive slideshow includes the latest collection by Danish design brand Normann Copenhagen, exhibited in Milan earlier this month. (more...) View the full article

Three kilometres of saffron-coloured pathways temporarily connect the shore of Italy's Lake Iseo to islands at its centre in this installation by Bulgarian artist Christo (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article