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Muji to sell tiny blackened-timber prefab huts for £21,000

Muji Huts

Japanese brand Muji has unveiled its design for a compact nine-square-metre prefabricated house, which will go on sale later this year. More ›

 
 

Amazon's Echo Look is a personal robot stylist that helps you decide what to wear

Amazon Echo camera

Amazon has added to its family of connected-home products with the Echo Look, a camera that takes photos of outfits before rating them and giving a second opinion. More ›

 
 

Competition: win a Squarestreet Plano watch of your choice

Dezeen has teamed up with Dezeen Watch Store to give one reader the chance to win a Squarestreet Plano watch in a colour of their choice. More ›

 
 

India Mahdavi references Bauhaus geometry with patterned interior for Berlin's KaDaWe

KaDaWe department store in Berlin

French architect India Mahdavi has used different shades of quartz to create bold, geometric floor patterns in the womenswear section of historic Berlin department store KaDaWe. More ›

 
 

Nike announces trainers with "drawbridge" heels as winner of Ease Challenge

A shoe with a flip-down heel has won Nike's inaugural Ease Challenge, which saw designers come up with footwear innovations for disabled athletes. More ›

 
 

Job of the day: interior architect for Faye Toogood

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for an interior architect to join Faye Toogood in London, who designed gender-neutral retail spaces for department store Selfridges. More ›

 
 

Nordic doubles the size of Oslo Airport with curved extension

Oslo Airport by Nordic

Nordic Office of Architecture has added a 300-metre-long extension with a curved roof to the airport in Oslo it designed in the 1990s. More ›

 
 

Northern California home by Arcanum Architecture sprawls along verdant lot

Atherton Avenue by Arcanum Architecture

San Francisco firm Arcanum Architecture has organised the massing of this large home around trees overhanging a broad lawn. More ›

 
 

Frank Lloyd Wright architecture school gets new name and branding

School of Architecture at Taliesin branding by Michael Beirut from Pentagram

The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture is being renamed the School of Architecture at Taliesin, as part of its break from a foundation established by the architect nearly 70 years ago. More ›

 
 

Eight of the best design weeks that are off the beaten track

Riyadh

The design shows in Milan, London and New York may be the most talked about, yet barely a week goes by when there isn't a design week happening somewhere in the world. Here are eight worth paying attention to in more unexpected locations – including one in China's manufacturing hub of Shenzhen and another that's the world's northernmost design event. More ›

 
 

"To confront populism, all architects should become classicists"

If today's architects abandoned their modern vocabulary in favour of populist traditional or classical styles, they could achieve more progressive social goals, says Phineas Harper in his latest Opinion column. More ›

 
 

Sasaki designs hydroponic vertical farm for Shanghai

The Sunqiao Urban Agricultural District by Sasaki

Architecture firm Sasaki has designed a hydroponic vertical farm for Shanghai, where leafy greens will be grown on rotating loops housed in a huge greenhouse. More ›

 
 

Ceramica Rondine launches porcelain tiles designed to look like bricks

Dezeen promotion: The buildings of London, Bristol and New York inspired the latest collection by Italian tile company Ceramica Rondine, designed to look like different types of brickwork. More ›