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Movie: in this exclusive video interview filmed in Venice, Ma Yansong of Chinese architects MAD explains his concept for a "shan-shui city", a high density urban development inspired by traditional Chinese paintings of mountain ranges. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2015: London designer Philippe Malouin has formed a collection of geometric planters in a range of shapes, textures and colours using solid-surface material Caesarstone. (more…)

Product news: the circular sections of this console by French designer Philippine Lemaire for Ligne Roset can be curled round to make a dining table. (more...) View the full article

News: Swanke Hayden Connell Architects – the firm behind the Fifth Avenue Trump Tower and the Statue of Liberty restoration – has filed for bankruptcy, claiming that it is owed $2 million dollars by a Russian client. (more…) View the full article

Mandalaki Studio teamed up with Italian car company Estrima to design the "first" electric concept car made from 80 per cent recycled plastics. Read more

Today Dezeen Jobs launches a careers guide profiling people with inspiring jobs in architecture, interiors and design. First we interview Ray Winkler, design director at entertainment architecture studio Stufish, which creates stages for musicians like the Rolling Stones and U2. Read more

Austria-based Livin Studio has created a process to cultivate edible fungi that digests plastic as it grows (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

News: installations including a "gigantic scale" rotating sculpture by Barber and Osgerby, a garden installation by Zaha Hadid and a swarm of drones have been announced for this year's London Design Festival in September. (more...) View the full article

Drawings and furniture by legendary Mexican architect Luis Barragán are on display in Manhattan, alongside the works of prominent artists who have also used colour distinctively (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Stockholm 2015: Oslo studio StokkeAustad has combined colourful textiles with a selection of shinier materials to create acoustic panels that feature geometric patterns (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A counter that looks like sliced salami and light fixtures that recall bocconcini balls feature in this Melbourne delicatessen by locally based studio Mim Design. Read more

Maison&Objet 2013: Italian designer Valentina Carretta made these hanging lamps for Italian brand Seletti with coarse paper like the kind used in egg boxes. (more...) View the full article

Construction work has started on a new concert hall by Mexican firm Rojkind Arquitectos in Boca del Rio, Mexico, featuring a bold geometric form that references the jagged outline of an adjacent jetty. (more…) View the full article

Production designer Fiona Crombie used secret passages and an enormous fake facade to transform a 17th-century English country house into the set for award-winning movie The Favourite. Read more

Design Indaba 2016: industrial designer Benjamin Hubert has explained why he shifted his energy away from furniture design, saying "everyone seems to be designing the same thing" in the sector. (more…) View the full article

News: a London restaurant has created a Champagne coupe from a mould of British model Kate Moss' breast. (more...) View the full article

Ukrainian designer Olga Akulova added glazed partitions, metal-topped counters and a wooden bath to this apartment on the 30th level of a condominium in Kiev. (more…) View the full article

News: French architect Jean Nouvel has been officially declared winner of the competition to design the prestigious National Art Museum of China in Beijing, ending months of speculation. (more...) View the full article

Sou Fujimoto Architects has stopped using interns in its Tokyo office, amid an ongoing row about unpaid internships in architecture studios. Read more

Interconnected brass poles loop over hooks on the walls and ceiling of this Beirut boutique by Lebanese architects Ghaith & Jad to form a suspended clothes rail (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

A sheltered deck separates the bedroom from the living spaces of this tiny home in a suburb of Brisbane (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Fashion brand COS and furniture company Hay have updated their curated collection of furniture and homeware with a set of outdoor chairs, plant pots and accessories (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A set of cylindrical golden drawers and a set of geometric tables made from etched and oxidised metals are among the new products launched by Italian furniture brand De Castelli for 2019. Read more

Barcelona studio Nook Architects has revamped a fourth apartment in one building in the city's Gothic quarter using leftover materials from the previous three projects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Studio Drift has recreated its flying sculpture Franchise Freedom at Kennedy Space Center, programming 300 drones to perform a routine marking the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission launch. Read more