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View online     Archismith creates secret garden within The Glass Fortress Bangkok architecture studio Archismith has built a garden enclosed by 20,000 glass bricks as part of a sales office for a residential development in Bangkok, Thailand. Read more ›   Hayri Atak Architectural Design Studio proposes cantilevering glass pool over Norwegian fjord Hayri Atak Architectural Design Studio has designed a concept for a boutique hotel within a cliff edge in Norway that includes a cantilevered glass swimming pool. Read more ›   Dezeen to host first ever Dezeen Day design conference Dezeen is launching an international architecture, interiors and design conference called Dezeen Day. The first edition will be held in London on 30 October. Read more ›   Hotel group Adjara is "playing a crucial role" in Georgia's cultural renaissance, say creatives Georgian hospitality group Adjara has made a name for itself converting brutalist Soviet-era buildings into boutique hotels, including the award-winning Stamba Hotel in Tbilisi. It has also helped nurture a new generation of Georgian creative talents. Read more ›   Five designers making fashion more sustainable at Helsinki Fashion Week 2019 With leather banned at the recent Helsinki Fashion Week, designers were exploring more eco-friendly materials and supply chains. Director Evelyn Mora names the five designers that made the biggest impression. Read more ›   Fashion "needs to rapidly develop" beyond animal leather says Helsinki Fashion Week director Fashion designers and brands need to start swapping animal leather for sustainable alternatives, or risk alienating themselves from consumers, says Evelyn Mora, director of Helsinki Fashion Week. Read more ›   Portugal's eight-room Dá Licença hotel offers a "more personalised" guest experience Vitor Borges and Franck Laigneau set one-off vintage furnishings against whitewashed walls to create a series of unique spaces inside this boutique hotel in southeast Portugal. Read more ›   Noma Studio's anti-AI mask protects wearers from mass surveillance Polish design studio Noma has developed a mask that makes the wearer's face undetectable to facial recognition algorithms used in public surveillance cameras. Read more ›   Gensler designs Pavillon Notre-Dame as temporary worship space International architecture firm Gensler has proposed creating a pavilion alongside Notre-Dame as a temporary place of worship following the fire, which destroyed the cathedral's roof. Read more ›   El Sindicato builds tiny Casa Parásito on a rooftop in Ecuador Ecuadorian studio El Sindicato Arquitectura has built a 12-square-metre parasitic structure atop a building in Quito. Read more ›   New Practice Studio colours minimal tea shop Spiritea with pastels in Manhattan Curving pale wooden furnishings and soft pink, green and blue tones decorate this tea shop in New York City designed by local firm New Practice Studio. Read more ›   Esrawe Studio designs furniture for social housing all across Mexico Hector Esrawe's design studio has developed furniture for an experimental housing project in Hidalgo, Mexico, but the designs will later be used to furnish social housing all over the country. Read more ›   SO-IL designs affordable housing for urban centre in growing Mexican city New York firm SO-IL has envisioned a six-storey, concrete apartment building for León, Mexico, which is meant to offer an alternative solution for the country's low-cost housing shortage. 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