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Architecture Interiors Design News Jobs Watch Store       Louvre cancels Atelier Van Lieshout installation amid concerns over "explicit or sexual" content Artist Joep van Lieshout has slammed a last-minute decision made by the Musée du Louvre to cancel a display of his controversial Domestikator sculpture, which looks like a man penetrating a four-legged animal. More ›     Foster + Partners unveils plans for Budapest's tallest building Foster + Partners has unveiled plans to create a sustainable office campus for a Hungarian oil and gas company, centred around a 28-storey skyscraper. More ›     Heatherwick Studio's Friction table expands to adapt to different spaces Sheets of paper set in resin were used to create the latticed structure of this table designed by Heatherwick Studio, which "transforms to offer two forms". More ›     Shigeru Ban's La Seine Musicale incorporates a wall of moving solar panels Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has completed a music complex near Paris, featuring an egg-shaped auditorium and a wall of solar panels that move to follow the path of the sun. More ›     Airbnb uses current listings to theme interiors of expanded San Francisco headquarters Home rental website Airbnb has taken cues from its listings around the world when designing additional office spaces at its headquarters in San Francisco. More ›     Seven buildings that prove beige doesn't have to be boring Architect Jürgen Mayer H and historian Philip Ursprung are presenting a manifesto championing beige buildings, titled Cosmic Latte, at this year's Chicago Architecture Biennial. We've chosen eight projects from the pages of Dezeen that fit the bill. More ›     "Chicago Biennial shows us how we might find building blocks for a new architecture" This year's Chicago Biennial doesn't provide a blueprint for the future of architecture, but it does offer clues for how to create one, says Aaron Betsky. More ›     Lasvit creates glass sculpture that illuminates in response to music Dezeen promotion: Czech glass and lighting brand Lasvit has created a responsive installation made up of 328 star-shaped light bulbs, which hangs from the ceiling of a university auditorium in Thailand. More ›     "Interesting as a museum piece, not as a home" Readers can't decide if a proposed Californian desert home made up of splayed white shipping containers should be classified as architecture or art in this week's comments update. More ›     UKIP faces copyright battle with Premier League over similar lion logo The UK Independence Party has replaced its yellow, pound-sign logo with a purple lion's head – and is now facing a copyright battle with England's main football league, whose own logo is remarkably similar. More ›     Studio 804 uses salvaged materials to construct sustainable home in Kansas Reclaimed metal panels and wood from railroad trestles were used to create an urban infill dwelling conceived by students in a design-build programme at the University of Kansas. 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