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View online     Pavilion grown from mycelium acts as pop-up performance space at Dutch Design Week The Growing Pavilion is a temporary events space at Dutch Design Week constructed with panels grown from mushroom mycelium supported on a timber frame. Read more ›   Zaha Hadid Architects and Cox Architecture reveal visuals of Sydney airport Zaha Hadid Architects and Cox Architecture have unveiled the design of an airport in Sydney that is modelled on traditional Australian architecture and natural landscapes. Read more ›   Follow the Dezeen Day discussion on Twitter tomorrow! Dezeen Day, our international architecture and design conference, is tomorrow! Didn't manage to get a ticket? Follow along on our Twitter page as we tweet from the event starting at 9am UK time, and join the discussion using #dezeenday. Read more ›   MINI Cooper SE is the brand's first all-electric car Oliver Heilmer, vice president of MINI Design, explains how the brand updated the MINI Cooper design to create its first entirely electric car in this video produced by Dezeen for MINI. Read more ›   The Ocean Cleanup launches system to catch plastic waste in rivers Dutch non-profit The Ocean Cleanup has launched the Interceptor, an autonomous system for collecting plastic pollution from rivers before it reaches the sea. Read more ›   Carmody Groarke to create extension to Design Museum Gent Carmody Groarke, RE-ST and TRANS Architectuur Stedenbouw have designed an extension to the design museum in Ghent, Belgium, which will form a link between its existing galleries. Read more ›   Casa Josephine transforms motorcycle workshop into brightly-hued advertising office Design studio Casa Josephine arranged yellow, red and deep-blue tiles to create the "emphatically geometrical" interior of this advertising office in Madrid. Read more ›   Oli Grotesk is a modern typeface that can be used to write traditional Indian scripts Indian graphic designer Shiva Nallaperumal has developed a versatile neo-grotesque typeface family that includes nine Indic scripts alongside Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian and Latin versions. Read more ›   Geometry of Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House illuminated with red lasers Designer Iker Gil and Luftwerk have projected a grid of red lasers across Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House to highlight the building's geometric form and its history. Read more ›   Rafael de Cárdenas designs Broadway Bar inside New York's Nordstrom department store New York architect Rafael de Cárdenas has created a split-level bar in Nordstrom's flagship store in Midtown Manhattan. Read more ›   Five smart cities that are being proposed in North America From a smart forest in Mexico to a Nevada desert city powered by blockchain, a wave of smart cities are being proposed in North America. Here are five examples from the continent that hint at the shape of future neighbourhoods. Read more ›   Tarot cards predict your future in the form of IKEA infographics Software engineer and US presidential candidate Akiva Leffert has designed a set of IKEA-themed tarot cards that tell your future using assembly manual illustrations. Read more ›   Top three wallpaper designs announced in Samsung and Dezeen's mobile design competition Dezeen promotion: the top three wallpaper designs in the Samsung Mobile Design Competition have been revealed, and their designers have shared the thinking behind their work in interviews with Dezeen. Read more ›   Nest "toolkit" can be used to build homeless shelters and supportive housing California firms Brooks + Scarpa and Plant Prefab have unveiled a low-cost housing concept for fallow urban sites, which comprise prefabricated, modular units that can be arranged in various configurations. Read more ›   Five ways we've tried to ensure Dezeen Day has a low environmental impact Coming to our Dezeen Day conference on 30 October? Here's what we're doing to lessen its impact on the environment, and ways you can help. Read more ›   Jean-Marie Massaud applies diamond-cutting processes to Axor Edge collection Dezeen promotion: French designer Jean-Marie Massaud has created a collections of taps and shower fittings called Axor Edge that are produced using a diamond-tipped cutting machine more often seen in the aerospace and laser industries. 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