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Construction has begun on Japan's tallest building, a 330-metre-tall skyscraper in Tokyo designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects. Read more

News: James Dyson, designer of the Dyson vacuum cleaner, has attacked the UK government's plans to force overseas students to return home after completing their studies, describing the idea as "short-sighted". (more…) View the full article

Adult sex toys are in the midst of a design revolution, says Rita Catinella Orrell, who has written a book on the subject called Objects of Desire. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen editor Anna Winston chooses her top design quotes of 2014, including Jonathan Ive on the "tragic" state of education and Marcel Wanders on the problem with "virtual design". (more…) View the full article

IKEA has released a set of furniture hacks that anyone can download and 3D-print to make their products more usable by people with disabilities. Read more

There's room for work, rest and play inside software company Grammarly's office in Kiev, which includes its own conference hall, nap pods, and a soundproof music room. Read more

American pop star Katy Perry has removed two designs from her Katy Perry Collections shoe line after complaints that they resembled blackface. Read more

Barcelona studio TAAB6 has renovated a 1930s townhouse in the city's Horta district, Casa JJA, to create a family home that merges contemporary and traditional features. Read more

Indian architecture studio Nudes has built an entire cafe in Mumbai using cardboard to prove its versatility as an environmentally friendly material. Read more

CODA Bespoke has created a pair of matching black houses in Sheffield, England, for graphic designer twins Nik and Jon Daughtry. Read more

News: a design team featuring architect Daniel Libeskind and artist Edward Burtynsky has triumphed in a competition to design a National Holocaust Monument for Ottawa, Canada. (more...) View the full article

Porto studio Fala Atelier has overhauled the layout of a cramped flat in Lisbon, adding sliding doors that connect each room to a central living area and small balcony. (more…) View the full article

A man-made leaf that could help humans colonise space, blown-glass sex toys and seven architect-designed bus shelters (pictured) feature in Dezeen Mail issue 213. Click through for the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 213 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

A rare prefabricated one-room house designed by Jean Prouvé in 1945 is on sale at Design Miami for $2.5 million (+ movie + interview). (more...) View the full article

Music: creative agency Rabbit Hole mixed oily magnetic fluids with water to create an abstract representation of primordial life in this music video for UK producer Max Cooper. (more…) View the full article

A marble-lined steam room is squeezed below the sloping ceiling of this apartment extension in Lisbon by local studio Camarim Arquitectos (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Gaps between the three brick boxes of this house near Barcelona by local firm H Arquitectes can be transformed from enclosed rooms into covered patios by folding back glass doors at both ends (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The Grand Palais in Paris was transformed into a wintery alpine village complete with snow-topped ski chalets for late fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld's final Chanel show. Read more

Dezeen Watch Store: a selection of men's watches from the new military-inspired collection by Nixon are now available at Dezeen Watch Store. (more...) View the full article

Brexit crisis: London art school Central Saint Martins is to fight to save the UK's involvement in the Erasmus students exchange programme, as designers warn of the "loss of opportunity" for young creatives. (more…) View the full article

This captioned movie shows, in action, the conceptual robotic delivery dog that German automotive brand Continental unveiled at CES 2019. Read more

Graduate shows 2015: for those scared of injections, Royal College of Art graduate Celine Park has proposed a new immunisation technique: inhaling vaccines through fungus (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

The shingle-clad upper storeys of this house on the outskirts of the Austrian city of Linz by Vienna practice Destilat are rotated to create a cantilevered overhang above the entrance (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Screens with a perforated geometric pattern help to control the flow of light, air and views throughout this house in a suburb of Tel Aviv by Israeli architect Pitsou Kedem. Read more View the full article

Cartoonists and graphic designers from around the world have responded to yesterday's attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. (more…) View the full article