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View online     Lund University students cast household items in glass instead of plastic Contact lens cases, vegetable vases and pill packets are some glass objects by Lund University students in Sweden to explore the material's potential within a more circular economic system. Read more ›   Indigenous technologies "could change the way we design cities", says designer Julia Watson Indigenous communities are pioneers of technologies that offer solutions to climate change, according to designer and environmentalist Julia Watson. Read more ›   Daisy May Collingridge's "squishy" flesh suits quash the idea of an ideal body type Textile artist Daisy May Collingridge has designed a family of fleshy, fabric bodysuits as "a joyful representation of the human form". Read more ›   Nuns offer up convent as wetlands to fight flooding in New Orleans A community of nuns have donated their convent in New Orleans to create the Mirabeau Water Garden wetlands and improve the city's system for flood prevention. Read more ›   Curved tiled wall guides customers inside Hangzhou's Angelot patisserie A sloping wall clad in slim white tiles hides the formerly problematic facade of this minimal patisserie in Hangzhou, China, which has been designed by Say Architects. Read more ›   Studio David Thulstrup designs "co-dependent" Pair side tables for Møbel Danish furniture brand Møbel has collaborated with Studio David Thulstrup to create a duo of odd-couple tables – one made entirely from ceramic and the other from contrasting, powder-coated steel. Read more ›   Large sloping roof shelters House in Gakuenmae by FujiwaraMuro Architects An oversized roof supported by large wooden beams shades the interiors of this home that FujiwaraMuro Architects designed in the Japanese city of Nara to take cues from the form of a mountain hut. Read more ›   Trump's Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again decries brutalist and deconstuctivist architecture Projects by HOK, Arquitectonica and Morphosis have been singled out for criticism in president Trump's draft executive order for federal buildings, which would outlaw brutalist and deconstructivist styles if it becomes law. Read more ›   An Aesthetic Pursuit designs shoppable Airbnb in Maine Brooklyn creative agency An Aesthetic Pursuit has designed a bold rental house in Maine with furniture and products that guests can purchase. Read more ›   Asif Khan unveils carbon-fibre latticed gates for Dubai Expo 2020 British architecture studio Asif Khan has revealed the Expo Entry Portals, gateways to the Dubai Expo 2020 woven from carbon fibre to create 21-metre-high mashrabiya-style lattices. Read more ›   Cooper Hewitt director Caroline Baumann resigns Caroline Baumann has stepped down from her position as director of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, the New York Times has reported. 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