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Swedish furniture giant Ikea has incorporated induction-charging stations into products from its latest collection, which will allow users to wirelessly charge their smartphones. (more…) View the full article

A new exhibition at the Friedman Benda gallery in New York displays the early work of designer Ettore Sottsass, best-known for the colourful and radical Memphis design movement of the 1980s (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Faced with a sharply sloping plot in Portland, Oregon, architect Ben Waechter chose to "build up rather than out" to create a cost-efficient house for a family (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Design student Ken Nakagaki has adapted a traditional stationery implement to work with Computer Aided Design (CAD) software, creating a tool that enables users to replicate digital files on paper (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: industrial designer Konstantin Grcic has added an armchair to his family of Pro chairs, which has just been announced as one of the category winners for Designs of the Year 2014. (more...) View the full article

San Francisco-based Avava Systems has created a prefabricated micro dwelling with components that are shipped in flat-packed boxes, to enable easier transportation and assembly (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Zaha Hadid's revised Tokyo Olympic stadium design and new photos of her Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul (pictured) feature in Dezeen Mail issue 210, along with the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 210 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

News: trend forecaster Li Edelkoort has published her Anti_Fashion manifesto, outlining why she believes the fashion industry "is going to implode". (more…) View the full article

A glazed terminal building at Marseille Provence Airport designed by Foster + Partners has come under fire from France's environmental authorities over fears it could hinder France's target to be carbon-neutral by 2050. Read more

The ongoing uncertainty over Brexit is causing havoc with UK furniture brands' preparations for Milan design week, which starts 10 days after the country is due to leave the European Union. Read more

A bright orange wall screens a staircase that leads to a bathroom on top of this concrete house in Tokyo by Takuro Yamamoto Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Instead of applying coloured pigments to these vases, Scottish designer Dean Brown has placed the powder in glass tubes and suspended it away from the undecorated surfaces (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has been named as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2016, with a citation written by his former employer Rem Koolhaas that compares Ingels to a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. (more…) View the full article

Design agency Pentagram has created a new logo and visual identity for Mastercard, the credit card company's first branding redesign in 20 years. (more…) View the full article

News: construction has started in Chengdu, China, on a 468-metre-high crystalline skyscraper by the architects behind the current and future tallest buildings in the world. (more...) View the full article

These four house-shaped volumes may look like individual homes but they actually define different areas of the same residence, designed by Shuhei Goto Architects in Japan's Shizuoka Prefecture. (more…) View the full article

Product news: Berlin-based designer Werner Aisslinger will unveil brightly coloured chairs and a set of modular furniture for Italian brand Moroso in Milan next month (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2016: London studio Industrial Facility has designed a solid wood "chair for church" for Italian furniture brand Mattiazzi (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Turner Prize-winning collective Assemble has created a "secret indoor garden" within two houses in Liverpool, UK, as part of its Granby Four Streets rejuvenation project. Read more

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has renovated a cafe inside the Louvre in Paris, adding modern pink acrylic light fixtures that contrast with their historical surrounds (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: construction is now underway on a 60-storey skyscraper with a segmented pinnacle, designed by architect Daniel Libeskind for Makati, the Philippines. (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2016: Studio Swine used very hard rubber to craft this black furniture collection, designed for American industrialist Henry Ford's failed utopian city (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Iran is "on the verge of a new era for architecture" according to local architects, resulting in a boom in contemporary residential and infrastructure projects. We've pinned some of the best examples to a new Pinterest board, including a bridge encouraging pedestrians to "wander and get lost" and a Tehran apartment block with faceted window frames. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more Iranian architecture in our archive View the full article

Six timber boxes protrude from the sides of this house in the hills north of Barcelona by Alventosa Morell Arquitectes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This synthetic biology project by designer Ai Hasegawa imagines that a woman could gestate and give birth to a baby from another species, in this case a dolphin, before eating it (+ movie). (more...) View the full article