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View online     Matthew Chamberlain proposes Street Tree Pods to alleviate London's housing crisis University of Westminster graduate Matthew Chamberlain has designed a sustainable treehouse to provide starter homes on London's streets, while also tackling the city's high pollution levels. Read more ›   Facebook claims to "put privacy first" with updated site design Facebook has traded in the blue background of its site for a more "modern", all-white design that aims to put privacy at the forefront of users' social interactions. Read more ›   Experts urge Macron to abandon five-year deadline for Notre-Dame rebuild Over 1,000 architecture and heritage experts have called on France's president to reconsider plans to rebuild Notre-Dame before the Olympic Games in 2024, saying the reconstruction should be carried out "without haste". Read more ›   Design retailer Skandium closes ahead of administration The two London stores of design retailer Skandium have closed and its e-commerce site has been disabled as the company prepares to go into administration. Read more ›   Tom Dixon's The Manzoni is a restaurant where "everything is for sale" Diners can shop from their table at The Manzoni, a new Milan restaurant by Tom Dixon that doubles as a furniture showroom and the designer's European headquarters. Read more ›   Top five paid internships on Dezeen Jobs include roles in London and Hong Kong We've selected five of the best paid internships available on Dezeen Jobs right now, including roles in London, Hong Kong and the Netherlands. Read more ›   Snow nanogenerator would allow solar panels to generate energy on wintry days US researchers have invented a nanogenerator that could one day be added to solar panels to keep them producing energy when covered in snow. Read more ›   Five buildings that show how female architects are building China's future New Chinese Architecture is a new book spotlighting the country's emerging architectural talents, all of whom happen to be women. Author Austin Williams talks Dezeen through five of the most exciting architects and their projects. Read more ›   Atelier Ace draws on warmth of Finnish saunas for Manhattan's Sister City hotel Ace Hotel's in-house creative team has completed a new hotel next to the New Museum in New York, featuring warm cherry wood self-check-in booths, a diner-style restaurant and compact bedrooms designed like "Japanese bento boxes". Read more ›   BIG designs EPIQ tower for Quito covered in earthy coloured tiles Architecture firm BIG has unveiled its second project for Ecuador's capital city: a mixed-use tower comprising two curved blocks covered in  herringbone-patterned cladding and pockets of greenery. Read more ›   OMA and Laboratorio Permanente to transform two Milanese railway yards into "ecological filters" OMA and Laboratorio Permanente's Agenti Climatici masterplan will turn two abandoned goods yards in Milan into public parks to filter the city's air and water pollution. Read more ›   Digital technology adds "layer of understanding" to Lascaux International Centre for Cave Art Casson Mann used 3D laser scanning to create replicas of 20,000-year-old cave paintings at the Lascaux International Centre for Cave Art, which won Interiors Project of the Year at Dezeen Awards 2018. The designers explain their process in this movie. Read more ›   Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission gets new chair after Scruton sacking Create Streets founder Nicholas Boys Smith has been named interim chair of the UK's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission, after Roger Scruton's removal. Read more ›   Aldo Bakker exhibits sculptural urushi lacquer pieces in New York Dutch artist Aldo Bakker used a 12,000-year-old Japanese technique to create a series of lacquered objects currently on show at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in New York City. Read more ›   Competition: win a Dawn to Dusk lamp by Haberdashery In our latest competition, we've teamed up with Clerkenwell Design Week for its 10th anniversary to give away a floor lamp by London design studio Haberdashery. 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