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View online     Schmidt Hammer Lassen wraps earthquake-resistant Christchurch library in golden screen Christchurch Central Library has been designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen as a "symbol of hope, unity, and rebirth" for the city in New Zealand, which was ravaged by an earthquake in 2011. Read more ›   Dripping machine creates ceramics that marry technological precision with hand-made characteristics Eindhoven-based Studio Joachim-Morineau has designed a dripping machine that combines technology with human error to create ceramics with individual structures, patterns and textures. Read more ›   Five geoengineering solutions proposed to fight climate change If humans can't reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, can we design our way out of climate-change catastrophe? Last week's UN report shone a light on geoengineering, a discipline that proposes large-scale interventions to counteract global warming. So what ideas are geoengineers proposing? Read more ›   "Hiring an African American woman on your leadership team is a step in the right direction" Improving the diversity of your architecture firm will help you win more projects, says Gabrielle Bullock. Read more ›   BIG and Artemide's Gople lamp helps plants grow indoors Bjarke Ingels Group has teamed up with Italian lighting brand Artemide to create a colour-changing lamp designed to help plants grow. Read more ›   Top five roles in visualisation on Dezeen Jobs this week We've selected the top five visualiser roles available on Dezeen Jobs this week, including opportunities with Hayes Davidson and London-based architecture firm WilkinsonEyre. Read more ›   VeloMed plastic mesh helps volunteers transport seven times as many medicine boxes Industrial design graduate Gwen Gage's has created a plastic mesh that connect medication boxes together to allow easier delivery of malaria medicine in remote sub-Saharan African villages. Read more ›   Fernanda Canales completes reflective pavilion for Design Week Mexico 2018 Trees, bark chips and visitors are all reflected in mirrors behind the severe black exterior of this pavilion, which Mexican architect Fernanda Canales created for this year's Design Week Mexico. Read more ›   Doug Aitken installs mirrored house in historic Detroit building American artist Doug Aitken has created a house-shaped pavilion clad entirely in mirrors inside a former bank in Detroit, Michigan. Read more ›   "Humans are clever. They can solve problems. There is hope" We are entering a new geological era: the anthropocene, in which human activity is a dominant influence on earth's geology and environment. At Dutch Design Week, a special edition of our Good Design for a Bad World series will ask if design can harness this phenomenon to prevent global catastrophe, writes Marcus Fairs. Read more ›   Mutual recognition of UK and EU architect qualifications would end with no-deal Brexit If the UK leaves the European Union without a Brexit deal, the automatic mutual recognition of architecture qualifications between the two sides will no longer exist, making it more difficult for firms in one territory to hire staff from the other, it has emerged. Read more ›   Coalesse Design Group relocates studio to Munich Dezeen promotion: US furniture brand Coalesse has moved its design studio from San Francisco to Munich, with the aim to boost its international reach. Read more ›   Studio MK27 updates and expands Gama Issa house in São Paulo Brazilian firm Studio MK27 has renovated and enlarged a house designed by its founding partner in the early 2000s, which features white surfaces and huge windows that open to the garden. Read more ›   Phan Thao Dang transforms sewage pipes into benches and stools California-based designer Phan Thao Dang has created a series of corrugated furniture objects from pipes conventionally used to carry waste sewage. Read more ›   Architecture | Interiors | Design | Technology | Jobs           You have received this because you are subscribed to Dezeen Daily. Unsubscribe | Forward to a friend Dezeen Limited, 8 Orsman Road, London N1 5QJ, UK Contact us | Submit a story | Advertise