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Design collective Medium has completed 8-23-VI, a pavilion with moving walls that is a new public place for residents of Gldani neighbourhood. Read more View the full article

Textile artist Daisy May Collingridge has designed a family of fleshy, fabric bodysuits as "a joyful representation of the human form". Read more View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers are baffled by a shield that uses UV light to sterilise itself and protect against coronavirus. Read more View the full article

Italian architects Carlo Ratti and Italo Rota have designed an intensive-care pod within a shipping container that could be added to hospitals fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

Interior designers have four new categories to enter for Dezeen Awards 2020. This year, there are awards for restaurant interiors, bar interiors, large retail interiors and small retail interiors. Read more View the full article

Synesthesia Lab introduces Synesthesia X1, a multi-sensory experience device, as part of VDF's collaboration with Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

German studio Architektur3 has added a triangular tower and public viewpoint to the St Georg church in Bleibach, situated at the intersection of three valleys within the Black Forest. Read more View the full article

Japanese architects Nakae Architects and Ohno Japan have collaborated to create student accommodation in Tokyo where slits run round the building near the top of each storey. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects and designers have joined over a million people around the world in posting a black square to Instagram in solidarity with those protesting for racial equality following the death of George Floyd in police custody. Read more View the full article

Japanese architect Yoshichika Takagi has completed a house in Sapporo, Japan, where the interior is divided by a series of wooden structures with pitched roofs. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: Italian design house Fornasetti took cues from pop culture and optical illusion art when creating this series of black-and-white Sole A Ventaglio products. Read more View the full article

Milan 2010: Eindhoven designers Boaz Cohen & Sayaka Yamamoto of BCXSY presented a collection of vessels and a light made up of beaded coils at Spazio Rosana Orlandi in Milan earlier this month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New York firm Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (SO-IL) invite visitors to swing on 30 poles outside the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre in New York. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Ivo Pavlik created this gateway overlooking a nuclear power station in the Czech Republic by casting concrete between hay bales then setting them on fire. Called The Cross-Gate, the structure in Dukovany stands at the end of a path leading from a cemetery, in front of a tree.The ends of one wall and the lintel are gilt [...]</img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: visitors to the Polish pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale launch themselves off a pile of birdcages into a sea of artificial clouds. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve teamed up with NAi Publishers to to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of the Dutch Design Yearbook 2010. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka designed this boutique to display fashion designer Issey Miyake’s 132 5. collection of garments, which fold from two-dimensional geometric shapes into structured clothes (see our earlier story). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2011: the Rewrite desk by Copenhagen designers GamFratesi (see our earlier story) has been put into production by French brand Ligne Roset. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this next movie Dezeen filmed at the Design Academy Eindhoven My Way talks in Milan, academy graduate Massoud Hassani presents his device for seeking and destroying landmines. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Tel Aviv architect Ron Fleisher has designed a house in an Israeli-Arab village that combines traditional Palestinian architecture with modernism. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London-based Fraher Architects have completed a house extension in Islington that is wrapped in larch batons and has a flower-covered roof. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch architects UNStudio have designed a concrete observation tower to cantilever into the sky above a nature reserve in the Netherlands. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: we’ve got just two of these limited edition V01 18k watches so you’ll need to be quick to snap one up from Dezeen Watch Store, either online or at The Temporium. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Five years ago this week an all-star lineup of architects comprising Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel and Tadao Ando released proposals for a cultural complex on an island off the coast of Abu Dhabi. Hadid’s designs were for a performing arts centre projecting towards the harbour while Gehry put forward plans for a Guggenheim contemporary art museum, Nouvel proposed a Louvre classical art gallery and Ando designed a maritime museum. All four are currently still in development. In the Netherlands, a ziggurat-like college by Erick van Egeraat opened its doors for the first time and NL Architects won a competition to design a new civic building in the northern town of …

Designed in Hackney: we’re kicking off our new Designed in Hackney initiative today, showcasing world-class architecture and design created in the borough that’s home to Dezeen’s offices and one of the five host boroughs for the London 2012 Olympic Games. First up is the London 2012 Olympic Torch by BarberOsgerby. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article