Programmable ink | Tanzania children's home | Recycled-parachute chairs

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View online     Swedish architects create self-sustaining children's centre in Tanzania Swedish studios Asante Architecture & Design and Lönnqvist & Vanamo Architects have collaborated with local workers to create a self-sufficient orphanage in Kingori, Tanzania. Read more ›   More early-bird tickets for Dezeen Day available for a limited time We have now sold out of early-bird tickets to Dezeen Day! However, due to strong demand, we've released more tickets at the same reduced price, which are available to buy until Friday 4 October. Student tickets have also been reduced in price. Read more ›   RIBA members call for Boris Johnson to be stripped of honorary fellowship Members of the Royal Institute of British Architects, including a past president, have signed a letter calling for UK prime minister Boris Johnson's honourable fellowship to be taken away. Read more ›   MIT creates reprogrammable ink to make objects change colour Consumers could change the colour of their cars, shoes, clothes or other belongings at will, using a new light-responsive ink from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Read more ›   AT 187 office chair promotes "dynamic sitting" to prevent backache at work The latest office chair from German furniture brand Wilkahn features technologies developed to encourage movement and maintain the user's centre of gravity as they shift position throughout the working day. Read more ›   Hotel Il Palazzo Experimental designed to be "deeply rooted" in its Venetian setting Marble furnishings, lagoon-coloured walls and arched doorways are among the features that Dorothée Meilichzon has incorporated in the interiors of this Venice hotel, which is meant to mirror its surroundings. Read more ›   Layer and Raeburn create furniture collection from recycled parachutes Recycled parachute material wrapped over welded steel frames make up this collection of rocking chairs and screens by Benjamin Hubert's design agency Layer and fashion studio Raeburn. Read more ›   Positions at Purcell and Gresford Architects are included in this week's top architecture and design roles Dezeen Jobs has selected five of the top architecture and design opportunities this week, including vacancies at architecture firms Purcell and Gresford Architects in Oxford. Read more ›   Studio Bark's first flat-pack U-build system used for a home extension in Essex Slatted screens of stained black wood surround the first-floor extension of an 1830s Georgian cottage in Essex, designed by Studio Bark but built largely by the clients themselves. Read more ›   Rodolfo Cañas extends "oversized skylight" from Mogro House in Chile A stainless steel volume topped by a skylight protrudes from this house in Santiago, which Chilean architect Rodolfo Cañas has completed for his family. Read more ›   Rem D Koolhaas and supermodel Shaun Ross launch unisex high-heel boot Dutch footwear brand United Nude, headed by architect Rem D Koolhaas, and model Shaun Ross have designed a heeled boot "with no particular individual in mind." 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