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Jean Nouvel completes red, white and blue skyscraper La Marseillaise

French architect Jean Nouvel has completed an office skyscraper in Marseille, with a concrete facade painted in 27 shades of red, white and blue in celebration of the port city's landscape.

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Marjan van Aubel's rooftop "greenhouse of the future" aims to solve food shortages

Dutch designer Marjan van Aubel has developed a self-powered rooftop greenhouse that generates solar energy to optimise good conditions for growth, in a bid to tackle the issue of food shortages.

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Halloween movie designer's biggest fear was "keeping all of our pumpkins fresh"

For all the on-screen blood and gore of horror film Halloween, the scariest part behind the scenes was perishing pumpkins, says the set dresser for the franchise's latest offering.

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Christopher Farr launches two patterned textiles from the Anni Albers archive

British textile brand Christopher Farr celebrates Bauhaus pioneer Anni Albers with its latest range of rugs and fabric designs.

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Urban Cabin by MINI Living and Penda takes cues from Beijing's hutong homes

In our latest Dezeen x MINI Living movie, Oke Hauser and Corinna Natter of MINI Living and Penda co-founder Dayong Sun explain how the micro home they built in Beijing references the city's hutong neighbourhoods.

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Karl Lagerfeld's first sculpture exhibition features marble fountains, tables and mirrors

Fashion legend Karl Lagerfeld is presenting his first ever exhibition of sculptural works at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris.

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Toyo Ito, Kazuyo Sejima and Sou Fujimoto donate works for Home for All charity auction

Leading Japanese architects have offered up drawings, models and other original works to raise funds for Home for All, the non-profit organisation set up by Toyo Ito following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Mismatched furnishings create "bipartisan aesthetic" at The Line DC hotel

A mash-up of different styles is used to decorate this hotel in Washington DC, which New York firm INC Architecture and Design created inside an old church.

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Park House envisions converting multi-storey car parks into apartment blocks

Our latest MINI Living video features a conceptual housing project, with houses made from shipping containers placed within repurposed multi-storey parking garages.

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Foster's $13 billion Mexico City airport scrapped after public vote

Foster + Partners' new airport for Mexico City has been cancelled midway through construction, following a public referendum that resulted in a majority vote against the project.

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"One of the most beautiful houses I have seen in years"

In this week's comments update, readers can't agree whether Peter Zumthor's Secular Retreat is worthy of praise.

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Wulf Architekten brightens German disease research centre with Velux skylights

Dezeen promotion: Wulf Architekten has used Velux's modular skylights at a research centre in western Germany, to flood its entrance and oval-shaped laboratory building with natural light.

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Dutch Invertuals presents products that champion using less

Eindhoven-based design studio Dutch Invertuals has curated an exhibition of 10 objects, to question whether – in the anthropocene era –  it is possible to reduce the volume of non-essential products in our lives.

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Slats shade LOHA's San Vicente 935 apartment building in West Hollywood

American firm Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects has completed a housing block in Los Angeles that features a central courtyard and open-air stairwell lined with wooden slats and white wire mesh.

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