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Yinka Ilori creates "joy and excitement" with colourful skate park in Lille

London-based designer Yinka Ilori has applied his signature vibrant style to the Colorama skate park within the La Condition Publique cultural centre near Lille, France.

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Petit Pli makes expandable and reusable face mask from recycled plastic bottles

Beta(MSK) by Petit Pli is a washable fabric face mask for the coronavirus pandemic made from recycled plastic bottles with pleats that adjust around the wearer's nose and chin.

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Architects Declare refuses to "name and shame" following Foster + Partners airport plans

Climate change network Architects Declare has stated that it will not denounce founding signatory Foster + Partners, which has come under fire for designing a new airport in Saudi Arabia.

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United in Design aims to provide a "road map" to make the interiors industry more diverse

Interior designers Sophie Ashby and Alexandria Dauley have set up United in Design, an organisation that aims to increase racial diversity within the interiors industry.

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"Interior design casually borrows from cultures it finds aesthetically pleasing without hiring people from those backgrounds"

Borrowing aesthetics from a range of cultures masks the lack of racial diversity in interior design and it is now time to change this says Bhavin Taylor.

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Projects from PXL-MAD School of Arts treat jewellery as "critical artefacts and cultural symbols"

Students from the PXL-MAD School of Arts merged traditional craft techniques and new manufacturing technologies to create the eight jewellery collections featured in this VDF school show.

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Invisible Cities project features elaborate architectural models of imaginary cities

Artists Camille Benoit and Mariana Gella used the coronavirus lockdown to design architectural models of fantastical cities, made from paper and tools they had at home.

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Flying-taxi startup Lilium reveals design for urban vertiports

German aerial-taxi company Lilium has unveiled its design guidelines for modular vertiports that could be placed on top of office blocks, car parks or shopping centres.

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Architect builds herself concrete Casa Castaños on outskirts of Buenos Aires

Glass walls enclose the courtyard of this concrete house in Argentina, designed by architects María Belén García Bottazzini and Ekaterina Künzel.

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Eva Franch i Gilabert fired as AA director for "specific failures of performance"

Architectural Association director Eva Franch i Gilabert has been fired by the London school two weeks after losing a vote of no confidence in her leadership.

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Wavy concrete roof covers weekend retreat in Chile by Ryue Nishizawa

Tokyo firm Office of Ryue Nishizawa has created an undulating concrete roof to span a long weekend house on a promontory towards the Pacific Ocean in Chile.

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