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View online     Dezeen Awards 2019 architecture category winners revealed The 10 winning architecture projects for Dezeen Awards 2019 have been revealed. They include a cultural centre overlooking the Persian Gulf and a locomotive shed that has been transformed into a public library. Read more ›   "To end plastic pollution, we first need to eliminate language pollution" Designers' efforts to reduce the environmental impact of their products are being hampered by confusion over terminology and rampant greenwashing, writes Marcus Fairs. Read more ›   Cambodian school has a gridded facade that doubles as a jungle gym The interchangeable steel grid of windows, shelves and lockers of a school in Sneung, Cambodia, designed by Orient Occident Atelier can also be used as a climbing frame. Read more ›   Britain's new £20 note features David Chipperfield's Turner Contemporary The Bank of England has revealed its "most secure" banknote to date – a £20 polymer note featuring David Chipperfield's Turner Contemporary gallery, and a portrait of the artist it's named after. Read more ›   South Korean clinic designed to promote "bond of sympathy" between patients Seoul studio By Seog Be Seog uses a palette of warm materials and soothing colours to create a feeling of familiarity within the Aeichi Korean Medical Clinic in South Korea. Read more ›   Robotic mirrors follow the sun in installation by Kimchi and Chips Halo by Seoul-based art studio Kimchi and Chips features 99 robotic mirrors that move continuously throughout the day, following the sun like sunflowers. Read more ›   Japanese house has hidden courtyards for growing fruit and drying laundry Three internal courtyards in a timber-clad bungalow designed by Osaka-based practice Arbol in Akashi, Japan, provide space for growing food and drying clothes. Read more ›   Davidpompa shows Origo lights in shipping container for Mexico City design week Mexico City design studio Davidpompa has added a slender floor lamp and a small table lamp to its Origo collection made from volcanic rock, which it showed in a shipper container. Read more ›   Modernist Casa Möbius reinvigorated with contemporary designs for Mexico City's design week Second Life showcases the works of Mexican architects and designers at the modernist Casa Möbius on the outskirts of Mexico City as part of the city's design week. Read more ›   Architect, critic and Maggie's Centres co-founder Charles Jencks dies at 80 Charles Jencks, architecture historian, landscape architect and director of Maggie's Cancer Care Centres has passed away at the age of 80. Read more ›   Very Studio brings light to Taiwan's Sunny Apartment with vaulted ceiling Arches spring up across the ceiling of this apartment in Taiwan, which Very Studio has overhauled to appear more bright and spacious. Read more ›   "Attempts to stop terrorism at the fringes of architecture are becoming increasingly useless" Architects and designers can't design ways to protect mass terror attacks in America's public spaces, but they should join the fight to eliminate the problem at its cause, argues Aaron Betsky. Read more ›   Atelier Liu Yuyang reuses old farmhouses to create boutique hotel in rural China A mountainous river valley forms the backdrop to the XY Yunlu Hotel, which Atelier Liu Yuyang has built within a series of renovated farmhouses in Guangxi, China. Read more ›   Mas Fernandez designs BL House to embrace natural setting in Valparaíso A folded metal roof tops this holiday home by Chilean firm Mas Fernandez Arquitectos, which was built using simple, cost-effective materials. 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