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Chile's Guggenheim-inspired "caracoles" captured in photos by Cristobal Palma

Architectural photographer Cristobal Palma has taken a series of photos revealing the 46 spiralling shopping centres built across Chile in the 1970s and 80s.

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"Let's start designing the future that gives us a future"

The United Nations says we have 12 years to take action against climate change, to avoid global disaster. It's the greatest design challenge in history, says Nicolas Roope.

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Responsive Furniture expands and contracts according to users' needs

Design Academy Eindhoven graduates Christian Hammer Juhl and Jade Chan have created a series of whimsical furniture items that respond to people's changing requirements.

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Darkened wood and concrete form moody interiors of Chaps & Co barbershop in Dubai

Nicholas Szczepaniak Architects has combined smoked timber joinery, huge sheets of steel and raw concrete to create the brooding interiors of this men's spa and barbershop in Dubai.

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Facett hearing aid takes inspiration from precious gemstones

The mineralogy collection at the Melbourne Museum inspired Australian designer Leah Heiss' Facett hearing aid, which aims to shift talk "from disability to desirability".

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Dyed concrete walls surround Swiss embassy in Nairobi by Roeoesli Maeder Architekten

Swiss studio Roeoesli Maeder Architekten has built anembassy for Switzerland in Nairobi, Kenya, as an extension of the dyed concrete boundary wall that surrounds the compound.

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Richard Meier steps down following sexual harassment allegations

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Meier is leaving his eponymous firm to be spearheaded by new management, following the accusations of sexual harassment made against him earlier this year.

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Main Office staggers Casa LT down lush slope in Mexican surf village

Architecture firm Main Office has extended and renovated a residence in a Mexican surfing town to nestle among trees, plantains and ferns on a steep slope overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

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Headless human-shaped pillow by Aseptic Studio designed to reduce urban loneliness

London-based Aseptic Studio has designed an ergonomic cushion in the shape of a headless torso to provide physical and emotional support for lonely millennials living in cities.

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Bandido Studio's Mura table features droplet-shaped marble base

The bulbous black base of this table, which Bandido Studio is launching at this year's Design Week Mexico, is sculpted using a traditional technique developed by the country's stone artisans.

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Heer bench aims to tackle the stigma attached to breastfeeding in public

Prague-based design studio 52hours has created a breastfeeding bench for use in public spaces, to offer comfort and privacy to mothers when tending to their babies.

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"Guess this is all just unnecessary PR hype"

In this week's comments update, readers are confused about the shape of a prototype Hyperloop capsule, and blown away by plans for the Wuxi Show Theatre in China.

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Old Sag Harbor Road house by Blaze Makoid sits in Hamptons forest clearing

American studio Blaze Makoid Architecture has created a spacious, cedar-clad dwelling in the Hamptons that was envisioned as "a secret enclave in the trees".

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