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Full-height partition walls and tall furnishings exaggerate a sense of space in this apartment in Taipei, which has been revamped by Studio In2. Read more

London firm Stanton Williams has completed a house in leafy north London with a timber and stone exterior, green sedum roofs and an entrance that brings residents over a bridge (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Indian firm Morphogenesis has become one of the world's first architecture practices to report a gender pay gap in favour of its female employees. Read more

London Design Festival 2014: Tel Aviv designer Nir Meiri has created a collection of vases made from layers of materials stacked in different combinations (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Israeli designer Roee Magdassi has abstracted the shapes of different animals and combined them to influence the forms of three furniture pieces (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Hector Esrawe's design studio has developed furniture for an experimental housing project in Hidalgo, Mexico, but the designs will later be used to furnish social housing all over the country. Read more

Researchers from MIT are developing a technology that transforms water droplets into programmable, interactive tools for entertainment and communication. Read more View the full article

News: OMA is set to transform part of a former shipyard in Shanghai into a 1,500-square-metre exhibition centre, after winning an international design competition. (more…) View the full article

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects stacked up boxy volumes with different dimensions and cladding finishes to create this library in Halifax, Canada (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Foster + Partners, BIG and Grimshaw Architects have won a competition to design a trio of pavilions for the 2020 Expo, which will be held in Dubai. (more…) View the full article

Business news: designer Marcel Wanders and entrepreneur Casper Vissers have regained complete control of Dutch design brand Moooi, buying the remaining 25 per cent of the company they co-founded in 2001. (more…) View the full article

Music: artist Chloe Early contrasts concrete urbanism with lush landscapes to create a coming of age story in this music video for the song Iris (Hold Me Close) – one of 11 being premiered simultaneously for U2's latest album Songs of Innocence today. (more…) View the full article

News: California studio Smith|Allen has completed the world's first architectural structure using standard 3D printers (+ movie + interview). (more...) View the full article

A tall white wall wraps around the base of this house in Tsukuba City, Japan, screening it from the street and creating the illusion of a triple-level structure (+ slideshow). (more…)

A 150-year-old farm complex in Switzerland has been converted into an assortment of office and apartment blocks by Zürich studio EM2N (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: toy brand Lego has revealed the design by Danish studio BIG for a visitor centre based on its famous plastic bricks. (more...) View the full article

News: a chapel originally designed by Antoni Gaudí for the Sagrada Família is set to constructed in Chile, 90 years after the Catalan architect's death. (more…) View the full article

News: Herzog & de Meuron and John Pawson have teamed up to design the exterior and interior of a luxury Manhattan hotel and apartment block for New York developer Ian Schrager. (more...) View the full article

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

Curator Aric Chen has explored how we will use materials in a new geological age, in the headline exhibition for this year's Design Miami/Basel. Read more

Photographer Marc Goodwin has captured the architecture offices of eight firms based in Panama's capital city for his latest studio photography set. Read more

This low-cost centrifugal device by British designer Jack Albert Trew fits onto the wheel of a bicycle, providing a simple blood diagnosis for patients in remote parts of Africa (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde's cycle path, illuminated with patterns based on Vincent Van Gogh's painting The Starry Night, officially opens in Nuenen this evening (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

As news about the recently declared climate "emergency" continues to dominate the headlines, it's worth taking note of the design companies that forefront sustainability in their practices. From Vestre to Emeco, we've selected eight of the best. Read more