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Milan 2016: Toyota has created an open-top two-seater vehicle made out of wood to combat the idea that "modern cars have to be high-tech machines packed with the latest technologies" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Toyota's latest electric LQ concept car satisfies the "human need to be engaged emotionally" with an on-board artificial intelligence agent named Yui. Read more View the full article

Nearly a century of layered paint creates texture on walls throughout these offices for an advertising agency in North Carolina, which TPG Architecture created inside a former factory. Read more View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: Philippe Starck, Aldo Spinelli and Carlo Colombo (above) are among the latest designers to create pieces for Riva 1920 made of reclaimed oak mooring posts from the Venetian lagoon. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Beijing-based architecture studio Trace Architecture Office has completed the Xinzhai Coffee Manor complex in the Yunnan Province, China, which processes coffee from the surrounding hills and is a hotel for visitors to the area. Read more

French studio Tracks Architectes has built a cinema fronted by an irregular arched colonnade in the grounds of a former convent in the town of Riom, central France. Read more View the full article

A long run of gabled volumes clad in honey-coloured wood has been designed by Tracks Architectes for a kindergarten in France called La Ruche, which translates as The Beehive. Read more

HeathWalker has turned a tractor shed in Hertfordshire into a house clad in timber cut from trees on the client's own land and scorched using a blowtorch. Read more

Japanese car brand Nissan has filed a trademark application for a flat monochrome logo that would see it join other brands opting for minimalist rebrands. Read more View the full article

Stones and shells from the seashore fill the walls of these eight contemporary British beach huts that London office Pedder & Scampton designed for the seaside town of Southend (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Hammerschmid Pachl Seebacher Architekten has added a contemporary extension to a traditional farmhouse in Austria, featuring rough-sawn spruce cladding and a folded fibre-cement roof (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Decorative tiles salvaged from different apartments are rearranged in stripes across the floor of this Barcelona residence by Spanish studio Bach Arquitectes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Local architecture studio Candalepas Associates has completed a mosque with a decorative concrete-vaulted roof in Sydney, Australia. Read more

Industrial designer Kim Ramain-Colomb's brightly packaged Habibi cosmetics range is based on traditional Moroccan makeup. Read more View the full article

Finnish graduate Mikko Hannula based the design of this faceted metal chair on a 3D scan of a traditional wooden seat called a Windsor chair (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The organisers of the London Design Festival have scrapped plans for a designer crazy golf course in Trafalgar Square following the failure of its crowdfunding campaign. (more…) View the full article

Organisers of the London Design Festival are discussing the fate of its flagship crazy golf project for Trafalgar Square after a Kickstarter fundraising campaign looked set to fail to meet its target. (more…) View the full article

Product news: industrial designer Konstantin Grcic's Traffic seating collection for Italian design brand Magis has gone into production. (more...) View the full article

A bus that straddles traffic has made its first journey in the Chinese city of Qinhuangdao (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dutch architect Anne Holtrop has completed a pavilion in an overgrown field in Almere, Netherlands, with plans that follow existing trails and paths across the site. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Pre-rusted steel plates are arranged in a spiral to form the walls of this public toilet created by Miro Rivera Architects in a park in Austin, Texas (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen has launched a trailer for ELEVATION, a forthcoming film exploring how transport, deliveries, construction and architecture will be transformed by drones. Read more View the full article

Dezeen has launched a trailer for ELEVATION, a forthcoming film exploring how transport, deliveries, construction and architecture will be transformed by drones. Read more View the full article

French architects Chartier-Carbasson have designed a football training centre in Amiens, France, with a sloping turf roof that merges with the adjacent field. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The drawers of this children’s dresser designed by Seattle product designer Peter Bristol are shaped to match their contents. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article