Rising from the Water pavilion draws on architecture by Yasmeen Lari

A circular pavilion formed of wood and reed, created by students with guidance from Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari and design studio Material Cultures is on display in Barking for the London Festival of Architecture. Named Rising from the Water, the pavilion is positioned close to Barking Creek Flood Barrier and explores building solutions for the

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Scientists use living skin to create robot that smiles

Lifelike robots could be a step closer to reality with a new development from the University of Tokyo, where scientists have made a prototype with living skin capable of a "natural smile". The University of Tokyo team aimed to find a good way of binding living skin, which is skin grown in a lab from

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Halleroed contrasts colour and texture inside Boygar's Tbilisi store

Design studio Halleroed has combined rustic, earthy tones with bold colours and glossy finishes for online retailer Boygar's first store in Tbilisi, Georgia. Set across three floors in a historic building on Tbilisi's Rustaveli Avenue, Halleroed worked within the framework of the building's existing features when designing the store. Characterised by a series of tall

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IED launches master's degree in future store design at its Florence campus

Promotion: design school Istituto Europeo di Design is running a master's course in retail design at its Florence campus, aiming to equip students with the skills to create brand-recognisable shop interiors. Starting in November, the Master in Future Store Design at Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) Firenze will be taught in English and available to prospective students

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Nicer Design creates bird box house numbers to encourage urban birdlife

Polish design studio Nicer Design has created the Numbird collection of digit-shaped nesting boxes for small birds in urban areas. Nicer Design founder Mikołaj Nicer and his father Paweł Frej developed the plywood boxes to be used as house numbers and increase nesting space for birds. "We decided to come up with a solution to

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Designers showcase work "meant to be lived with" at Colony in New York

Cabinets of curiosity and miniature tools based on Shaker furniture were among the works on view at New York design gallery Colony for its second Designer's Residency, showcasing four up-and-coming talents. According to the gallery, the residency was first launched in 2022 to provide up-and-coming talents with a more accessible way to enter the industry.

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Dezeen Agenda features the UK's youngest listed building

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the UK's youngest listed building. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. The Sphinx Hill House in Oxfordshire became the youngest listed building in the UK this week. Completed by British architecture studio John Outram Associates in 1999, the home was informed by ancient Egyptian culture. Its

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Estúdio Campana adds living plant pavilions to São Paulo park

Brazilian studio Estúdio Campana has created a park near São Paulo that includes pavilions made with live plants on land once farmed by the founders' grandfather. Estúdio Campana created the park on 130 acres of land inherited by the studio's co-founders – Humberto Campana and his brother Fernando, who passed away in 2022. Originally, Estúdio

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Thirteen student design projects from students at Vilnius Academy of Arts

Dezeen School Shows: a lighting collection made from glass and aluminium that explores memory is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Vilnius Academy of Arts. Also included is a chair designed for use during sex that references the appearance of skin and a textiles project exploring mythology through the use of copper wire.

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Icon chair by Marcello Ziliani for Mara

Dezeen Showroom: Italian brand Mara has released a new version of its Icon chair, designed by Marcello Ziliani in flexible polypropylene for enhanced comfort and versatility. The new Icon chair features the same embracing armrests as its upholstered predecessor, but interpreted in a polypropylene plastic shell that is appropriate for use in a variety of settings

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Álvaro Siza adds angular concrete extension to renovated monastery in Porto

Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has added an angular white-concrete extension to the Monastery of Leça do Balio in Porto to provide "a new landmark" for the site. Designed by Siza with landscape architect Sidonio Pardal, the extension provides additional space for visitors to the site, which is the headquarters of the cultural entity Foundation Livraria Lello.

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Glastonbury's Hayes Pavilion "pushes the boundaries" of what bioplastic can do

Bristol studio Re:Right Design has reprised its demountable Hayes Pavilion for this year's Glastonbury festival, cladding it in a biomaterial made from seaweed to demonstrate how sets can be built without plastic. The pavilion is returning to the world's largest greenfield music festival for the second year running as part of its quest to explore

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Glastonbury's Hayes Pavilion "pushes the boundaries" of what bioplastic can do

Bristol studio Re:Right Design has reprised its demountable Hayes Pavilion for this year's Glastonbury festival, and clad it in a jelly-like biomaterial made from seaweed to demonstrate how festival sets can be built without plastic. The pavilion is returning to the world's largest greenfield music festival for the second year running as part of its

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Renovation of historic station among designs unveiled for California's high-speed rail

Designs by studios Foster + Partners, Arup and Page & Turnbull have been unveiled for the first four train stations of the California High-Speed Rail line, slated to be the first high-speed rail system in the US. Foster + Partners and Arup contributed to the design of four stations for the California High-Speed Rail, which

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"Mad Men meets Apple store" at Ménard Dworkind's revamp of IM Pei tower interior

Local studio Ménard Dworkind has retrofitted a 1960s building designed by IM Pei with an office interior for a tech company in Montreal. The 3,330-square foot (310-square metres) space houses the offices of TEC Energy inside IM Pei's 47-storey Place Ville Marie tower, a cruciform skyscraper completed in 1962 as headquarters for the Royal Bank

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Elle bookcase by Ferruccio Laviani for Mara

Dezeen Showroom: created by designer and architect Ferruccio Laviani for Italian brand Mara, the Elle bookcase is a modular shelving unit with an angular and lightweight look. Made entirely of metal, the Elle bookcase consists of an ultra-thin rod frame combined with L-shaped internal elements that create its distinctive appearance. Different effects can be created by

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Eight compact studios embedded into residential gardens

From converted garages to compact new-builds, we have rounded up eight studios that provide retreat and solitude for their owners in their own back gardens. Featuring reclaimed materials, charred-timber facades and pared-back interiors, this list of garden spaces includes a converted workshop completed by designer Paul Westwood in the UK and a studio centred by

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3XN designs South Korean arts centre to evoke "dancer's pointed toe"

Sweeping roofs that symbolise movement and artistic expression will drape across Chungnam Art Center, which Danish studio 3XN is designing in South Korea. Slated for competition by 2029, the performing arts centre will join a cluster of other cultural buildings in the Chungnam Art Precinct in Chungcheongnam-do province. The building will be defined by its

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"Kan-ye not?" asks commenter

In this week's comments update, readers are discussing the news that musician Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has gutted a Tadao Ando-designed home in California. Ye's transformation of the Malibu beach house included ripping out the ocean-facing windows, kitchen, marble-clad bathrooms, concrete hot tub and indoor fireplace. Commenters were far from impressed. "A wrecking

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Sabine Marcelis creates colour-blocked scenography for VitraHaus loft

A mint-green lounge pit and custard-yellow home office are among several colourful set pieces installed by designer Sabine Marcelis on the top floor of Vitra's Herzog & de Meuron-designed flagship store in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Marcelis, who is known for her work exploring colour, translucency and reflection, was invited to create a series of

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