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Architecture Interiors Design News Jobs Watch Store       Bartlett student Freja Bao designs pilgrimage destination "to rebrand China" Bartlett School of Architecture  graduate Freja Bao has devised a masterplan for a new Chinese cultural capital that could help to change the country's political image. More ›     The Seasteading Institute's floating cities are designed for unregulated innovation A plan to build self-sufficient floating cities outside of national borders features in the latest movie from our Dezeen x MINI Living video series. More ›     Future Sleep kit discourages people from looking at their phones before bed Design graduate Lena Saleh has created a set of objects for people to look at before they go to sleep instead of their smartphones. More ›     Stratum desk mat warms or cools workers to their personal preference Loughborough University graduate Tony Elkington has designed a desk accessory that warms or cools individual workers to avoid intra-office wars over the thermostat. More ›     Job of the day: construction architect at MVRDV Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a construction architect at MVRDV in Rotterdam, which recently unveiled plans for a tower complex featuring spiky plant-covered roofs and greenhouses. More ›     Stainless-steel extension to CTLES archive reflects its rural surroundings This pair of enormous mirrored-steel boxes connected by a glazed bridge were designed by Antonini + Darmon and RMDM, to complement and extend an aluminium-clad archive facility outside Paris. More ›     Ruud Visser Architects completes house in Holland that looks like a giant A The house by Ruud Visser Architects features a brick facade that looks like a huge letter A, while its rear is a three-storey wall of windows. More ›     Feix & Merlin remodels warehouse home on the banks of London's River Thames London studio Feix & Merlin lowered the floors and raised the ceiling inside this former warehouse to transform it from a cramped apartment into a spacious open-plan residence. More ›     Bartlett graduate Julia Baltsavia designs construction system for modular housing based on I-beams A library of parts could be used to create personalised self-build apartments, with this construction system designed by Bartlett graduate Julia Baltsavia as a solution to London's housing crisis. More ›       Follow us     Forward this newsletter to a friend You have received this because you are subscribed to Dezeen Daily. Unsubscribe     Contact us | Submit a story | Advertise