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Asif Khan creates "space in between" homes and workplaces with Forests installation for MINI

London Design Festival 2016: in this exclusive movie produced by Dezeen for MINI, the brand's Oke Hauser explains why they worked with architect Asif Khan to install plant-filled pavilions across east London.

 
 

Elon Musk announces plans to start colonising Mars in six years

Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk plans to make humankind a "spacefaring civilisation" by starting manned missions to Mars as soon as 2022.

 
 

Thomas Schnur exhibits furniture pieces based on objects found in the street

Beijing Design Week 2016: German designer Thomas Schnur presents six pieces of furniture adapted from common objects like traffic cones and metal barriers for an exhibition in Beijing (+ slideshow).

 
 

10 inflatable buildings designed to blow you away

There was a time when inflatable pavilions were all the rage, but now architects are creating blow-up buildings for all kinds of uses. Here are 10 of the most inventive examples, including a mobile concert hall, a black PVC nightclub and a field of giant mushrooms.

 
 

Barber and Osgerby base minimal wooden table on Japanese joinery

London Design Festival 2016: design duo Barber and Osgerby have created a limited-edition table constructed from three curved pieces of oak (+ slideshow).

 
 

Mirrored viewing platform by Natura Futura is disguised against the Ecuadorean landscape

Projecting over a hillside in the Ecuadorean countryside, this small mirrored viewpoint was designed by Natura Futura Arquitectura as a rest stop for hikers (+slideshow).

 
 

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson's nature centre in Pittsburgh "blends with the surrounding woods"

The thin columns and wood cladding that front this educational facility in a Pittsburgh park are designed to help the building fit in with its woodland setting (+ slideshow).

 
 

Macro Sea turns abandoned Brooklyn warehouse into New Lab co-working space

New York developer Macro Sea has turned a warehouse at Brooklyn's Navy Yard into a workspace for tech entrepreneurs, using the building's "cathedral-like" steel trusswork to inform new elements (+ slideshow).

 
 

Alessandro Zambelli creates furniture inlaid with patterns of oxidised metal

London Design Festival 2016: this furniture collection from designer Alessandro Zambelli features a puzzle of metal pieces that have been oxidised to different degrees (+ slideshow).

 
 

Zaha Hadid's Nanjing International Youth Cultural Centre nears completion

These new photographs reveal a vast cultural complex by Zaha Hadid Architects, which is reaching its final stages of construction in the Chinese city Nanjing (+ slideshow).

 
 

Beijing Design Week returns for 2016

Dezeen promotion: this year's Beijing Design Week features installations, design exhibitions and pop-ups focused on the redevelopment of China's urban environment.

 
 

"Giant glass grasshoppermates with building"

Comments update: Zaha Hadid Architects' new headquarters for Antwerp's Port Authority is the controversial talking point this week, with readers both decrying and praising the building's visual impact on its surroundings.

 
 

Slender apartment block by Amin Taha Architects features a timber structure and wicker balconies

Wicker balconies project from the brick facade of this apartment block in north London, which was designed by Amin Taha Architects with a cross-laminated timber structure.

 
 

Sharon Baurley to step down as head of Design Products at Royal College of Art

Sharon Baurley steps down as head of RCA's design products programme

Sharon Baurley, head of the Royal College of Art's Design Products programme, is leaving after just three years to take up a post at a "prestigious European institution".

 
 
 
   
 
 

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