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Dezeen and MINI World Tour: French botanist Patrick Blanc, the inventor of green walls, explains how he created the hanging gardens on the outside of Herzog & de Meuron's new Pérez Art Museum in our next movie from Miami. (more...) View the full article

News: internet giant Google has unveiled a simplified logo that flattens its colours and ditches the drop shadow. (more...) View the full article

Competition: we're fast approaching 300,000 followers on Facebook, and to celebrate we're giving away ten copies of our Dezeen Book of Ideas to readers who likes us over the next week. (more...) View the full article

Cladding is being removed from residential high-rises across the UK following concerns over fire safety in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Read more View the full article

Windows are dotted across the facades of this photographer's house in Brittany, France, allowing sunlight to illuminate different parts of the interior through the day (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This end-of-terrace house in west London by Liddicoat & Goldhill features a fully glazed rear section that allows daylight to reach neighbouring properties (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

News: visitors to the museum at the Dessau campus of the Bauhaus can now spend the night in the dormitories of the former German Modernist design school (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This bright red tower resembling the head and neck of a monster was constructed by Dutch designer Frank Havermans as the beacon for a fire station in a small Dutch town. (more...) View the full article

American furniture brand Emeco is to sue Ikea for damages for allegedly copying a chair designed by Norman Foster. (more…)

Children would swing beneath a giant colourful hot-air balloon in this proposal for a sculpture park in Queens by Australian architect Jesse Lockhart-Krause. (more…) View the full article

Wood-framed structures create a range of different spaces in Hono Izakaya, a restaurant in Quebec City that was recently refurbished by local designer Charlène Bourgeois. Read more View the full article

French designer Sasufi used reclaimed wooden doors to recreate the decorative panelling of nineteenth century French interiors on the walls of this patisserie on the outskirts of Melbourne. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: a space-saving white and wooden island forms the centre of the Modern Pantry restaurant founder Anna Hansen's kitchen, which is revealed in this series of films by Miele. Read more View the full article

A tapered column of cast concrete supports the underside of a dark oak staircase inside one of the residences that occupies this converted London garage by Patalab Architecture (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This performing arts centre in São Paulo by Brasil Arquitetura features huge concrete volumes lifted off the ground to create accessible public spaces and has been named on the shortlist for the Designs of the Year awards, announced this week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Living spaces at this house in the Indian city of Chandigarh are distributed around a full-height courtyard that allows natural light and breezes to reach rooms arranged around its perimeter. Read more

Polish design studio Noma has developed a mask that makes the wearer's face undetectable to facial recognition algorithms used in public surveillance cameras. Read more

Designers can move easily between drawing in a virtual-reality environment and on their tablet using the latest update to Gravity Sketch. Read more

The Odunpazari Modern Museum, designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates, has opened its doors in Eskisehir, northwest Turkey. Read more

Hayri Atak Architectural Design Studio has designed a concept for a boutique hotel within a cliff edge in Norway that includes a cantilevered glass swimming pool. Read more

Spanish firm GRAS arquitectos has extended a traditional detached house in Mallorca by adding a series of contrasting Corten steel boxes. (more...) View the full article

News: New York's MoMA has acquired a "4D-printed" dress that automatically changes shape, and the technology used to create it, a month after the museum added five DIY electronics products to its permanent collection. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2014: an exhibition simulating the homes and workspaces of architects including Shigeru Ban, Zaha Hadid, David Chipperfield and Daniel Libeskind has opened in Milan, allowing young designers to explore the domains of their idols (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Architect Frank Gehry has been granted permission to build a series of five mixed-use buildings in his home city of Los Angeles. (more…) View the full article

Architect Santiago Calatrava is set to create a grass-topped office block on the plaza in front of his Stadelhofen Station in Zurich with public parking for 1000 bicycles on the ground level. (more…) View the full article