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Trevor Horne Architects completes 12-sided art gallery in south London park

Cabinet Gallery by Trevor Horne Architects

London studio Trevor Horne Architects has completed a gallery  and apartment building on the site of the former Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, featuring folded brick walls topped with a glazed events space. More ›

 
 

12 must-see installations and exhibitions at the Venice Art Biennale 2017

Dialogo: Ettore Sottsass and Carlo Scarpa

With the 57th edition of the Venice Art Biennale now open to the public, managing editor Olivia Mull selects some of the best design-led exhibitions, spatial installations and pavilion takeovers. More ›

 
 

Daan Roosegaarde's Smog Free Bike would generate clean air as you pedal

Smog Free bikes

Daan Roosegaarde has unveiled the next concept in his Smog Free Project – a bicycle that would inhale polluted air, clean it and release it around the cyclist. More ›

 
 

EFFEKT proposes Bratislava housing scheme modelled on a mountain range

Južna Dolina by EFFEKT

Danish studio EFFEKT has developed a housing  scheme for the Slovakian city of Bratislava, which features a dramatically staggered roofline intended to echo the peaks of a mountain range. More ›

 
 

Molteni&C wins legal battle to stop Cassina producing identical Gio Ponti chair

Ponti chair by Patricia Urquiola for Cassina

The Italian courts have sided with Molteni&C in a legal dispute against Cassina that saw both brands exhibit the same chair during Milan design week. More ›

 
 

Job of the day: Part-II architectural assistant at Paul Archer Design

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a Part-II architectural assistant to join London-based Paul Archer Design, which recently completed a house extension that paired board-marked concrete with glass. More ›

 
 

Waataa transforms Lisbon offices into compact studio apartments with fold-out furniture

BY Studios by Waataa Architects

Brightly coloured niches define living spaces inside these three compact studio apartments, which Portuguese practice Waataa has created instead a former office building in Lisbon. More ›

 
 

PlayLab's exhibition at A/D/O forces visitors to consider their preferences

Visitors can pick their preferred sky colour and express reactions to a hamburger in this interactive exhibition, designed by New York studio PlayLab for Brooklyn design venue A/D/O. More ›

 
 

New US initiative aims to spotlight architecture firms that treat workers fairly

An alliance of architecture pressure groups in America has launched JustDesign, a database of studios that treat their staff well and provide equal opportunities for women. More ›

 
 

Vipp prefabricated cabins designed as "battery-charging stations for humans"

Shelter by Vipp

Danish retailer Vipp has created a factory-made, metal-and-glass micro dwelling  that comes filled with the company's line of homeware products. More ›

 
 

James Corner Field Operations adds circular landscaping to Philadelphia Navy Yards Central Green

Philadelphia Navy Yards Central Green by James Corner Field Operations

A+Awards: landscaped circles accommodate different activities at the centre of the redeveloped Navy Yards in Philadelphia, designed by James Corner Field Operations and a winner at the 2016 Architizer A+Awards. More ›

 
 

IM Pei's Miho Museum provides backdrop for Louis Vuitton resort 2018 show

Louis Vuitton cruise collection

Models emerged from a forested mountainside at this year's Louis Vuitton resort show, which took place at the Miho Museum in Japan designed by Chinese-American architect IM Pei. More ›

 
 

Competition: win a book documenting the evolution of the modern apartment

Building Community New Apartment Architecture

Dezeen is giving away five copies of Building Community: New Apartment Architecture by Michael Webb, which charts the growth of terraced towers, social housing, luxury high-rises and other contemporary apartment buildings. More ›

 
 

Soviet architecture in Georgia and alchemy inform furniture collections by Rooms

Furniture by Rooms

Tbilisi-based, all-female studio Rooms is presenting patinated metal tables and sculptural black timber chairs at The Future Perfect gallery and furniture store in New York. More ›

 
 

New brand Tilemark launches with carved tile collection designed by Form Us With Love

Dezeen promotion: custom carved tiles are the specialty of new Swedish brand Tilemark, which has launched with a debut collection designed by Form Us With Love. More ›