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BIG stacks shipping containers to create floating student housing in Copenhagen harbour

Shipping containers are stacked on a floating platform to create these buoyant student halls of residence designed by Bjarke Ingels' firm for Copenhagen harbour (+ slideshow).

 
 

Neo Bankside residents should add net curtains to stop gallery visitors spying says Tate director

Outgoing Tate galleries director Nicholas Serota has waded into the feud between Neo Bankside residents and Tate Modern, whose new viewing platform overlooks the luxury housing development on London's South Bank.

 
 

Call for entries to A' Design Awards and Competition 2017

Dezeen promotion: architects and designers are invited to submit entries to this year's A' Design Awards (+ slideshow).

 
 

London mayor launches inquiry into finances of contentious Garden Bridge

The controversial Thomas Heatherwick-designed Garden Bridge is to come under further scrutiny, as London mayor Sadiq Khan has announced a review to assess whether the project provides value for money.

 
 

Competition: win a subscription to Not-Another-Bill's surprise gift service

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Not-Another-Bill to give away four three-month subscriptions to its design gift service (+ slideshow).

 
 

Steel and glass extension added to traditional stone house in Paris by Atelier Lame

Atelier Lame has added a steel-framed extension to an old stone house in a Parisian suburb, as part of a renovation that creates ample storage for an avid CD and record collector (+ slideshow).

 
 

Studio Furthermore creates ceramic homeware from sponges

London Design Festival 2016: Studio Furthermore injected sponge and foam with porcelain to create this collection of vessels (+ slideshow).

 
 

Zigzagging roof covers Buenos Aires holiday home by Estudio Borrachia

The zigzagging roof of this wooden holiday home in Buenos Aires by local practice Estudio Borrachia provides shade for a series of terraces, and will eventually be covered in wildflowers and grass (+ slideshow).

 
 

Elevated urban park in Atlanta would stretch over a rail line and highway

American firms Rogers Partners and Nelson Byrd Waltz have conceived a raised, tree-lined park for Atlanta, Georgia, that would be built atop rail tracks and a busy roadway (+ slideshow).

 
 

"Now, more than ever, we need support for creative education"

Opinion: if the government is serious about putting design at the heart of post-Brexit Britain, it must support creative education says Hannah Paterson from the Design Business Association.

 
 

"Design has gone viral, but the design community is stranded" say Istanbul Biennial curators

Istanbul Design Biennial 2016: today's radical ideas rarely come from designers according to Istanbul Biennial curators Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley, who say the entire industry is 200 years out of date (+ interview).

 
 

Colourful beach huts will double as coastal defence wall in southern England

A row of brightly coloured beach huts and an elevated promenade will be integrated into this sea wall designed by Snug Architects to protect the coastal English town of Milford-on-Sea (+ slideshow).

 
 

Designers blend craft and electronics to explore new possibilities for home appliances

London Design Festival 2016: "you can have surround sound with your chandelier, vase and centrepiece" in the world imagined by the 28 designers contributing to the Electro Craft exhibition (+ slideshow).

 
 

Gehry's Eisenhower Memorial finally approved by former US president's family

The Eisenhower family has withdrawn its rejections to the Frank Gehry-designed memorial, proposed for Washington DC to honour the 34th president of the United States (+ slideshow).

 
 

Norway moves to scrap plans for controversial Utøya memorial

The Norwegian government has offered to abandon plans for a memorial to the 77 people murdered during the terrorist attacks of 22 July 2011, after fierce opposition by local residents.

 
 
 
   
 
 

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