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This week, readers are questioning Virgil Abloh's latest collection for IKEA and think Jony Ive looks unusual in his portrait for London's National Portrait Gallery. We also announced the category winners for Dezeen Awards 2019! Read on for more...

 

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Virgil Abloh reveals full IKEA collection ahead of US launch next month

"Please teach Virgil how to use quotation marks"

Commenters are confused by Virgil Abloh's use of punctuation on the designs he created for his latest IKEA homeware collection.

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Dezeen Awards 2019

Dezeen Awards 2019 project winners revealed

The winners of the architecture, interiors and design project categories for Dezeen Awards 2019 have been announced!

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Japanese house has hidden courtyards for growing fruit and drying laundry

"A giant middle finger to the neighbourhood"

A Japanese home by Arbol has been designed so its rooms look inwards onto internal courtyards, rather than onto the street.

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National Portrait Gallery reveals portrait of Jony Ive by Andreas Gursky

"Did Samsung design Ive's smile in the photo?"

Readers are baffled by a portrait of Jony Ive taken by photographer Andreas Gursky for the National Portrait Gallery in London.

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Dezeen Awards 2019 project winners

 

The "only way to save the world" is to ban land ownership, says Vivienne Westwood

"You give up yours first"

In light of the climate crisis, designer Vivienne Westwood is calling for a ban on private land-ownership, much to the annoyance of readers.

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Just two weeks to go until Dezeen Day!

Less than two weeks to go until Dezeen Day

Time is running out to secure your place at our agenda-setting architecture and design conference Dezeen Day, on 30 October.

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Invisible Studio builds giant window in Somerset hotel garden

"All it takes is one person to knock over a dumbbell"

Readers are concerned about the welfare of a giant window that fronts a gymnasium at The Newt hotel in Somerset. 

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"To end plastic pollution, we first need to eliminate language pollution"

"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.

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Atelier Liu Yuyang reuses old farmhouses to create boutique hotel in rural China

"Entertaining graphics"

Antony Gibbon has visualised a conceptual house called Twine, which sits under a wave-like structure within a landscape of rolling hills.

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Dyson scraps £2.5 billion electric car project

"Well that sucks"

Dyson has cancelled plans to build an electric car claiming the project is not "commercially viable", much to the disappointment of readers. 

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Adidas disguises office block as an arena

"The ambience of a prison"

One reader thinks that the new Adidas headquarters in Germany, designed by Behnisch Architekten, resembles a correctional facility.

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Lucas y Hernández-Gil splits moods inside Madrid duplex apartment

"It's appreciated to see different and risky projects"

An indoor courtyard with orange grass and silver curtains are fun features that Lucas y Hernández-Gil added to this Madrid apartment.

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Twisting brick columns support London terrace extension by Urban Mesh

"My dark twisted brick fantasy"

Four sculptural, brick columns frame this extension to a Georgian terrace in north London, designed by local practice Urban Mesh.

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