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Milan 2015: Swedish designer Markus Johansson used a full-size 3D-printed model to create the mould for this chair that looks like it was squeezed from a tube (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2013: this year's award for the best landscape project at the World Architecture Festival has gone to a botanical garden at a former quarry in Australia. (more...) View the full article

The next sculpture to be erected on the Fourth Plinth in London's Trafalgar Square will be a winged bull by artist Michael Rakowitz, which is based on an ancient Iraqi artefact destroyed by Islamic militant group ISIS. Read more View the full article

A series of curtains create fluid boundaries between the spaces of this laboratory for communal living in Belgium, which has opened up a family home to be shared by the surrounding neighbourhood. Read more

Furniture company Henge has created a dining table with a handmade "micro-mosaic" wooden top standing on bronze sand-casted legs. Read more View the full article

A rooftop extension fronted by a grid of metal mesh and glass contrasts with the original brick facade of this building in east London renovated by Duggan Morris Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Using its own London office as a case study, architecture firm Gensler has created a modular furniture range for Fantoni in response to a trend for more flexible and collaborative workplaces. Read more

World Architecture Festival 2012: in this movie we filmed at the World Architecture Festival, Chinese architect Li Xiaodong tells Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs how ”sustainability is a must” for new buildings in China, because if the country doesn’t get it right it’s ”the end of the world”. (more…) View the full article

A campus-like park of concrete offices topped with green roofs forms the new Vanke Design Community in Shenzhen, featuring two sunken plots completed by architecture practice FCHA. Read more

Lettering used in Eero Saarinen's 1960s TWA Flight Center at John F Kennedy International Airport in New York provided the cues for the branding of the new hotel in the terminal building. Read more

Lifeguard outposts along Toronto's frozen waterfront have been converted into a series of installations and pavilions, including a set of bright red swings and a spiky timber folly (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Stockholm 2015: a trio of designers created this armchair for Swedish furniture brand Blå Station that can be wheeled around on small castors. (more…) View the full article

An electric sports car has its parking space in the shiny white living room of this former carpenter's workshop in the Netherlands, which Studio OxL has converted into a home. (more…) View the full article

Danish design studio Oeo has used the wooden planks produced by Dinesen to create furniture and structures within the brand's new flagship showroom in Copenhagen (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

A system of pulleys are used to raise and lower sections of the walls of this prefabricated cabin on the border between Turkey and Greece, allowing the holiday home to open up to the outdoors or be completely closed during bad weather. Read more View the full article

Dutch designer Ineke Hans has created signposts and furniture to complement an art trail that lines a busy motorway in northern Holland (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Mercedes-Benz has unveiled plans for a delivery "van of the future" that features fully automated cargo loading and drones that drop off packages (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: Apple has been granted a patent for a wireless headset that mounts an iPhone in front of the eyes, hinting at the company's expansion into virtual reality. (more…) View the full article

Movie: architect Rossana Hu explains why she and her partner Lyndon Neri turned the theme of "feeling good in architecture" on its head in their keynote speech at this year's Inside Festival. (more…) View the full article

A white spiral staircase that contrasts with the surrounding stone walls is one of several modern interventions that architect Elisabete Saldanha has added to this converted farmhouse in Portugal (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The faceted forms of these 3D-printed wireframe bowls and vessels by French designer Michaël Malapert are inspired by the Japanese art of origami. (more...) View the full article

A proposed office complex by Foster + Partners on Brooklyn's waterfront has reportedly bitten the dust, and is to be replaced with industrial warehouses. Read more

Pool Leber Architekten and Bleckmann Krys Architekten have combined 14th and 16th century structures, with modern concrete and brick volumes to create the Kult museum. Read more

Architecture and engineering firm Leo A Daly has proposed building "drone-powered" hospitals in hurricane-prone areas, which could continue operating even when roads are closed or destroyed. Read more

Architecture studio Paper House Project has added a double-height atrium surrounded by gridded windows to an apartment in a converted warehouse in east London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article