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Architecture studio Cooking Sections and engineer AKII have created an experimental landscape in Sharjah to demonstrate how desert plants could be used as an alternative to water-hungry greenery in arid cities. Read more View the full article

A multidisciplinary team in Chile have designed a self-sufficient cabin that can be tailored to the local climate and topography, along with a client's specific needs. Read more View the full article

In Milan last month Japanese brand plusminuszero launched a watch where the strap slots through the back of the case. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Oregon-based ZGF Architects has used a variety of design elements to help minimise the visual impact of a new energy facility on Stanford University's scenic campus (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

American studio ZGF Architects has transformed the interior of a 1940s hangar in Los Angeles into a Google office, featuring open workspaces, elevated walkways and exposed timber beams. Read more

American firm ZGF Architects has completed a cancer centre in downtown Phoenix with a faceted, copper-coloured screen that evokes the scaly skin of a desert reptile (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Through a series of renovations and new insertions, Chinese architect Zhang Ke has transformed some of Beijing's ageing hutongs into hubs of activity. Read more View the full article

Designer Zhekai Zhang has developed a method of staining porcelain with used coffee grounds to mimic the texture of marble, and applied the technique to a collection of lamps called Coffire. Read more

Japanese studio Noiz Architects has created a colourless clubhouse in China with patterned walls, a jumble of doorways and a chandelier that mimics a starry sky. (more...) View the full article

Taipei studio Q-Lab has completed a sports centre in Taiwan that appears to be shrouded under a huge faceted hood (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

An oval reading room with stepped shelving and a display room with tree-trunk-shaped columns are among the spaces designed by Shanghai studio XL-Muse for this bookshop in Hangzhou, China (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

New York 2016: Chinese designer Zhoujie Zhang has created a series of mirrors, using the results of computer algorithms based on the natural movements of water (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

German design graduate Meike Harde has designed a range of upholstered benches and stools simply by folding foam mats and fixing them to wooden frames with elastic bands. (more…) View the full article

Rotterdam studio Kingma Roorda Architecten have completed two apartment blocks on the quayside in Zierikzee, the Netherlands. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Istanbul studio Zift Design is launching its latest product collections as part of VDF's collaboration with Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

Zig-zagging balconies with larch railings enliven the facade of this apartment block in Graz, Austria, by Love Architecture and Urbanism (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This jagged wall decorated with patterned graphics was designed to invite visitors into an art fair in New York City. (more...) View the full article

Peeter Pere and Eva Kedelauk have covered a new sauna and an existing traditional wooden smoke sauna, in Varbola, Estonia, with a zigzagging aluminium roof. Read more

Two terraces in Melbourne have been joined together and given an extension with a zigzag roof by Austin Maynard Architects. Read more View the full article

RAW Architecture has designed a zigzag roof of thatched bamboo for a school in Indonesia, which is raised up on stilts to deal with its swampy site in Tangerang city. Read more

American firm Rand Elliott Architects has designed a new home for the Oklahoma Contemporary art centre covered in 16,800 extruded aluminium fins. Read more View the full article

Shanghai architects TF and PPAS have built a set of sprawling concrete structures that will be used by visitors to an agricultural park on the outskirts of the Chinese city (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Trace Architecture Office designed zigzagging ramps running round Huandou School in Haikou, China, to encourage interaction and play between students outside the classroom. Read more View the full article

A zigzag forms the junction between warm-coloured carpet and grey tiling in this Barcelona home, which has been overhauled by local studio Arquitectura-G, and also features vaulted ceilings. Read more View the full article

This Berlin clothing store by Mexican design studio Zeller & Moye is filled with concertina-shaped display stands made from raw cement boards (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article