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View online     MAS Architecture Studio's wind tower keeps visitors cool without air-conditioning MAS Architecture Studio favoured passive ventilation over high-tech solutions in this installation for Dubai Design Week, which reimagines Emirati wind towers using 480 layers of recycled cardboard. Read more ›   The Object is Absent is a "less materialistic" design exhibition for an overcrowded world The Object is Absent is a multi-strand installation that focuses on the designers' bodies rather than the objects they create, to demonstrate a shift in the priorities for the next generation of makers. Read more ›   Park Road Apartments is a radical housing tower clad in "ridiculous" metal Terry Farrell and Nicholas Grimshaw built Park Road Apartments, which contained their own homes, in the 1970s. We continue our high-tech architecture series by looking at the metal-clad housing block. Read more ›   Environmental audit reveals the carbon footprint of Dezeen Day conference Dezeen Day generated eight tonnes of carbon emissions, according to a "quick and dirty" environmental audit of the conference. Read more ›   Marina Tabassum brings prefabricated Bangladeshi homes to Sharjah Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum has erected three prefabricated houses at the Sharjah Architecture Triennial, to highlight the families that relocate their homes as river channels move within the Bengal Delta. Read more ›   Basic Coffee in Beijing is designed to be "like a live advertisement" Design studio Office AIO has arranged partitions inside this pink-hued Beijing coffee shop to frame vignettes of customers enjoying their hot drinks. Read more ›   Watch our talk with Knauf about women in architecture live from London Leading and emerging women working in architecture and construction will discuss the experience of working in both fields at a talk held in Knauf's London showroom. Tune in here live from 7pm UK time. Read more ›   Seek app builds biodiversity database as users identify plant and animal species Kids can identify plants, flowers and wildlife in their area while adding to a global biodiversity database that helps monitor the planet's health, using the augmented-reality app Seek by iNaturalist and the WWF. Read more ›   ASWA wraps own architecture studio around internal courtyard ASWA Studio has designed as its architecture studio in Bangkok around a fully glazed internal courtyard that brings daylight into the building. Read more ›   SOM to create Disney headquarters in New York City covered in green tiles Skidmore Owings & Merrill has revealed plans to build a glass-and-ceramic office building for Disney's New York operations, called 4 Hudson Square. Read more ›   House Lessans in rural Northern Ireland wins RIBA House of the Year 2019 A "dream home" built on the "tightest of budgets" by architects McGonigle McGrath has been named by the Royal Institute of British Architects as the UK's best house of 2019. Read more ›   Heatherwick Studio's Pier 55 renamed Little Island Thomas Heatherwick's Pier 55 park within New York's Hudson River has been renamed Little Island, as visuals and a video detailing the project's construction are released. Read more ›   Jessica Helgerson uses "moody, green, lush" palette for Portland home renovation Interior designer Jessica Helgerson has overhauled a home in Portland, Oregon to include decorative ceilings, floral wallpaper and shades of green and grey that evoke its rainy, cool climate. Read more ›   Join Dezeen's Twitter debate on concrete vs timber with #dezeenchat Should architects ditch concrete for timber to save the planet? Dezeen's India Block and Lizzie Crook will be taking to Twitter on Wednesday 20 November at 4pm UK time to discuss whether timber is a better alternative to concrete. Join in using the hashtag #dezeenchat. Read more ›   Prada becomes first luxury brand to sign loan tied to sustainability targets Prada has signed a £42.9 million loan with banking group Crédit Agricole, with repayment terms conditional to meeting key targets around the sustainability of its products and operations. Read more ›   Heliotrope tucks Collector's Retreat into lush wooded site in coastal Washington American studio Heliotrope Architects has created a holiday home for art gallery owners that is wrapped in dark metal, punctured with white stucco and large stretches of glass. Read more ›   Careers guide: Ingrid Moye of Zeller & Moye reveals what it's like to run a studio in Mexico City Ingrid Moye is a director and co-founder of architecture studio Zeller & Moye. She explains what it's like to run an international firm in Mexico City, for the Dezeen Jobs careers guide. 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