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American company UPS is testing a drone-launching delivery truck that it hopes will make its parcel service more efficient in rural locations. Read more View the full article

Dutch designer Floris Wubben has created a second chair using his method of binding willow branches at they grow (see the first in our earlier story). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This chair by Dutch designer Floris Wubben was made by binding and splinting the branches of a willow tree, forcing them to grow into four legs. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Product news: Swedish design duo Mattias Ståhlbom and Gabriella Gustafson of TAF have created a table with an upside-down underframe for Danish producers Hay. (more…) View the full article

Rainwater slides down into the central folds of a plunging roof at this Dallas house, draining into a collection tank for reuse. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Belgian firm Urbain Architectencollectief has refurbished a former brick fire station building and added an extra storey to house additional facilities for a cultural centre in the city of Kortrijk (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Amsterdam architects O+A have designed a conceptual floating swimming platform for the river IJ in Amsterdam. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Francesca Perani has transformed the porch of an Italian villa into a 25-square-metre micro apartment with plenty of hidden storage. Read more View the full article

Gabled bungalows are scattered over the rooftops of bulky apartment blocks that are perched above rows of narrow townhouses in this social housing development outside Paris by French studio Maison Edouard François (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

US firm Tres Birds Workshop has topped a Japanese restaurant in Denver, Colorado with a greenhouse featuring soil-free growing towers. Read more

An outdoor elevator by Spanish architects Vaumm connects the mountainside neighbourhoods of a Spanish town to those in the valley. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The stairwell ascending through the centre of this Tokyo house is illuminated from a skylight and glows through translucent glass partitions. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swedish studio Urban Nouveau is offering an alternative to the demolition of a 1920s bridge in Stockholm – transform it by adding apartments and a linear park. Read more View the full article

This weekend designer Gareth Neal will create picnic areas around east London with furniture covered in intricate marquetry. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cities haven't been designed to suit the lives of women, according to British writer Caroline Criado Perez, whose book Invisible Women argues that much architecture and design does not work properly for females. Read more View the full article

Urban Power has unveiled its plans for nine artificial islands, named Holmene, which will be a sustainable tech hub off the coast of Hvidovre, Copenhagen. Read more

Design studio Total Tool have completed the interiors for a mobile office space in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2013: bamboo trees sprouted up around a topographical landscape of stone and water at this installation created by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma in Milan last month. (more...) View the full article

French architecture studio Urbane Kultur has refurbished and extended this dome-shaped swimming pool just outside Strasbourg, which is one of nearly 200 built around France in the 1970s (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The translucent back wall of this pop-up headphone shop changes colour in response to the noise made by Christmas shoppers. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Peña Ganchegui y Asociados have completed this house overlooking the sea in Getaria, northern Spain. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Plans by former footballers Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs to build a luxury hotel and shopping centre in Manchester may be scuppered as the Twentieth Century Society seeks emergency heritage listing for a synagogue on the site. Read more View the full article

Urko Sanchez Architects has designed a concrete compound in Djibouti for the charity SOS Children's Villages International as a home for vulnerable children. Read more

The architecture college at Washington University in St Louis has announced it plans to prohibit students from using styrene in their models, citing health risks related to the chemical that is used to make foam boards. (more…) View the full article

MASS Design Group, a nonprofit US firm, plans to start an architecture and design training centre in Kigali, Rwanda, to help address the "dearth of professional designers" across Africa (+ movie). (more…) View the full article