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This week, we spoke to two homeless people in London, and announced the shortlist for the Dezeen x MINI Living Future Urban Home competition. Read on for more details...

 

Stockholm Furniture Fair

 

"Most people are one pay cheque away from where I am" says homeless man who sleeps outside Habitat

"A shameful shortcoming of society"

Dezeen interviewed two men who sleep in the village of tents outside the Habitat and Heal's stores in London, leaving readers saddened. 

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15 urban homes of the future revealed on shortlist for Dezeen and MINI Living competition

"Amazing ideas here! Cosmic future"

Parasitic structures, 3D-printed homes and flying houses feature on the Dezeen x MINI Living Future Urban Home competition shortlist.

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Bose launches Frames sunglasses that are also headphones

"I already hate people wearing sunglasses indoors"

Bose's sunglasses with tiny speakers in their arms are a fashion faux-pas for one commenter.

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Backlash over decision to give architecture prize to Massimiliano Fuksas but not his equal partner Doriana

"The prizes should be awarded to the office"

Anger ensued when Massimiliano Fuksas was awarded the Premio alla Carriera Architettura prize, but partner Doriana Fuksas wasn't.

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Campari

 

Foster + Partners use trees as partitions inside Thailand’s first Apple store

"What will they think of next?"

The indigenous trees and wooden workbenches that line the Foster + Partners-designed Apple Store in Bangkok haven't impressed.

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Childish Gambino invites festival-goers to switch off in immersive wellness installation

"Leave the outside world behind"

Sound baths and "truth connection booths" feature in Childish Gambino's multi-sensory wellness installation in New Zealand. 

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"Landscape architecture in 2018 provided a bold vision for our shared built environment"

"Landscape architecture in 2018 provided a bold vision"

Charles A Birnbaum looks back at the highs and lows of landscape architecture over the past year, and makes predictions for 2019.

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David Chipperfield completes colonnaded stone gallery at entrance to Berlin's Museum Island

"Traditionalists want a fake facade that was never there"

Readers are divided over the stone facade that fronts the James Simon Galerie in Berlin designed by David Chipperfield Architects.

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Dezeen Jobs

 

UK to grant post-Brexit visas to architects with "outstanding talent"

"And who makes the final decision?"

A decision to grant some architects special visas to live and work in the UK after Brexit has thrown up multiple questions.

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Teddy Schuyers' Guts proposes redesigning the ostomy bag for sex, sport and everyday life

"Quality of life is so enormously important"

Teddy Schuyers redesigned the ostomy bag after being diagnosed with Crohn's disease, hoping to improve its performance and appearance.

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Wooden sleeping pods by Reed Watts made available to homeless people in London

"A powerful first-step solution"

Reed Watts has installed 10 prefabricated sleeping pods inside the 999 Club night shelter in London, much to the delight of one reader.

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