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Shoreham Beach House by ABIR Architects features gabion walls filled with beach pebbles

ABIR Architects used pebbles found on the beach to create the layered facade of this house in the English seaside town of Shoreham – which featured in last night's episode of UK television show Homes By The Sea.

 
 

London needs to address its profit-and-loss skyline, says Antony Gormley

London's latest crop of skyscrapers don't give enough back to the city according to British sculptor Antony Gormley, who claims the British capital is growing at the expense of its citizens (+ interview).

 
 

Inside 2016 conference programme announced

Dezeen promotion: well-known designers including Ross Lovegrove, Jürgen Mayer H, Job Smeets and Joyce Wang will speak at this year's Inside festival seminar programme.

 
 

Old Beijing junkyard covered with inflatable canopy by Max Gerthel and Jordan Kanter

Beijing Design Week 2016: this events pavilion inflates and deflates to mimic a breathing octopus – the latest in a series of inflatable structures being created by designers (+ movie).

 
 

Social media sceptic Philippe Starck joins Facebook and Instagram

French designer Philippe Starck has belatedly joined Facebook and Instagram, despite previously describing digital media as "sick".

 
 

Pauline van Dongen designs clothes that correct your posture

Dutch fashion designer Pauline van Dongen has created a smart top that vibrates in response to bad posture (+ slideshow).

 
 

Overtreders W installs orange pipework above heads of customers in Netherlands cafe

Dutch design studio Overtreders W has used a bold colour palette and an elaborate pipe network to give a concert-hall cafe a cheap but cheerful makeover (+ slideshow).

 
 

Rapt Studio creates "family rooms" inside new Utah headquarters for Ancestry

American firm Rapt Studio has designed the interiors for tech company Ancestry's new office, which features comfy lounge areas, communal dining tables and art installations that refer to genealogy (+ slideshow).

 
 

Nike raffles Mag self-lacing shoes from Back to the Future II

Sports brand Nike is raffling limited editions of the self-lacing shoes that feature in sci-fi film Back to the Future II (+ movie).

 
 

Sun-like disc of 8,000 Swarovski crystals installed at baroque Viennese palace

Vienna Design Week 2016: London design studio Fredrikson Stallard has brought its glimmering Prologue installation to Vienna's baroque Belvedere Palace (+ slideshow).

 
 

"Architects still don't understand how people live"

Comments update: the UK's housing crisis became the hot topic this week, as readers reacted to Phineas Harper's first Opinion column for Dezeen.

 
 

London's Natural History Museum set for major extension by Niall McLaughlin Architects

The Natural History Museum in London has won planning permission for a major upgrade of its entrance areas, designed by Niall McLaughlin Architects and landscape firm Kim Wilkie (+ slideshow).

 
 

A+I uses "yin-yang" palette for Squarespace headquarters in New York

Black and white surfaces, indoor trees and a rooftop workspace all feature at the new head office for website building service Squarespace in New York (+ slideshow).

 
 

City work visas could help UK design firms recruit "brightest and best from around the world"

Brexit: London and other UK cities need to take "radical action" and introduce their own work permits so design firms can thrive after Brexit, according to former government policy adviser Rohan Silva.

 
 
 
   
 
 

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