Google's translator headphones | Huge shipping-container home | Lego Minifigure CV

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Architecture Interiors Design News Jobs Watch Store       Google's new headphones double as a personal translator Google has launched a pair of wireless headphones that incorporate its voice assistant feature, meaning they can translate 40 languages in real time. More ›     Adam Nathaniel Furman creates sequence of tiled archways at London Design Festival Designer Adam Nathaniel Furman explains how his Gateways installation for London Design Festival showcased the history of Turkish ceramic tiles, in this movie filmed by Dezeen for Turkishceramics. More ›     Design graduate uses Lego Minifigure as his CV Instead of a typical paper CV, graduate designer Andy Morris has created a Lego Minifigure in his own likeness to send out to potential employers. More ›     Adidas uses Parley ocean plastic to update one of its classic shoe designs As part of its long-standing collaboration with environmental initiative Parley for the Oceans, Adidas has updated one of its classic shoes from the 1990s with yarns made from waste plastic. More ›     Lille school extension by LT2A features porthole-like windows and golden details Architecture studio LT2A has added a brick extension to a school near Lille, featuring an entrance sheltered by an anodised-aluminium canopy, and circular windows that provide glimpses of courtyard gardens. More ›     Five serene Canadian retreats by Omar Gandhi Architect Omar Gandhi Architect just completed its latest house, which sits on Nova Scotia's rugged coastline. We've therefore rounded up five of the Canadian firm's residential projects, all designed to maximise their dramatic settings and create cosy escapes from harsh weather. More ›     Lot-Ek slices shipping-container stack to form Williamsburg home New York studio Lot-Ek has built a family home in Brooklyn by stacking shipping containers, and cutting them at an angle to create terraces stepped down its back. More ›     Drone footage showcases "floating" roof of OMA's MPavilion This captioned movie offers a tour of this year's MPavilion, designed by Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten of OMA. Featuring footage shot by a drone, the film gives a closer look at the building's seemingly unsupported roof and its amphitheatre-like interior. More ›     Foster + Partner's Bloomberg headquarters is the "world's most sustainable office" The first photos have been released of Norman Forster's newly completed European headquarters for Bloomberg in London, which claims to be the world's most sustainable office building. More ›     Mario Botta pairs stone with Jansen steel frames to create striped facade for Swiss mountain restaurant Dezeen promotion: Swiss architect Mario Botta has completed an unusually shaped restaurant in the alps, which combines natural stone cladding with Jansen's steel facade system. More ›     Aston Martin reveals plans for $4 million luxury submarine Aston Martin has collaborated with submersibles manufacturer Triton to create a concept for a limited-edition submarine, which it hopes will "redefine luxury for a select few". More ›     New Affiliates creates asymmetric mountain cabin in Vermont Steep, pointy roofs and square windows that frame views of the landscape figure into this pine-clad retreat in the northeastern US, by design studio New Affiliates. More ›     IKEA lab Space10 creates pop-up hydroponic farm for growing extra-healthy salads IKEA's innovation lab Space10 created a pop-up farm during this year's London Design Festival, growing tiny greens that were used to prepare 2,000 nutritional salads. 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