Europe's tallest skyscraper | Robot with feelings | Emerald green kitchen

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Europe's tallest skyscraper revealed as it nears completion

Lakhta Centre by RMJM

The RMJM-designed Lakhta Centre in St Petersburg is Russia and Europe's tallest building – standing 462 metres high. More ›

 
 

Designers demand Design Museum remove works in outrage over arms industry event

Over 30 artists and designers have called for their work to be removed from the Design Museum's Hope to Nope exhibition, after the London gallery hosted an event for one of the world's biggest defence companies. More ›

 
 

Studio Morison designs Escape Vehicle #9 for when nature reclaims the planet

Studio Morison's yellow PVC pavilion provides visitors to a Dutch art festival with the chance to sleep in one of the darkest places in the Netherlands. More ›

 
 

Texture-changing skin lets robot express its feelings

Cornell University make feeling robot

Cornell University engineers have made a robot that gets goosebumps or becomes spiky to communicate its internal state. More ›

 
 

Atelier Sagitta incorporates emerald green kitchen into Parisian apartment

The Green Kitchen by Atelier Sagitta

French practice Atelier Sagitta has added a dose of colour to this previously characterless apartment in the Paris suburbs by creating an almost entirely green kitchen. More ›

 
 

Top architecture and design jobs this week include Büro Ole Scheeren and dRMM

Barclay Village by Ole Sheeren

We've selected five of the best roles in architecture and design available on Dezeen Jobs this week, including roles with Büro Ole Scheeren, Heatherwick Studio and dRMM. More ›

 
 

Belle Smith makes jewellery from discarded pistachio shells

Belle Smith makes jewellery from discarded pistachio shells

Central Saint Martins graduate Belle Smith combines discarded pistachio shells with precious metals to create her jewellery pieces. More ›

 
 

Russell Jones creates pared-back concrete house in a Dutch forest

Living spaces at this house in Waalre, the Netherlands, are contained within a cluster of concrete structures that incorporate large openings framing views of the surrounding forest. More ›

 
 

White volumes by HW-Studio form food market between stone buildings in Mexico

Morelia Market by HW Studio

Architecture practice HW-Studio has ripped out an abandoned warehouse and replaced it with a series of all-white volumes to create this food market in a historic Mexican city. More ›

 
 

Vancouver restaurant Tacofino Oasis references "rustic glamour of mid-century Mexican resort town"

Tacofino Bentall by Sukkau Works

Luxury 1950s Mexican vacationlands and the style of a "gaudy" furniture designer have informed the interior of this taco restaurant in Vancouver, by local designer Shiloh Sukkau. More ›