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View online     Carlo Ratti unveils digital arts centre with zigzag orange staircase Italian architect Carlo Ratti has revealed his design for MEET, Milan's centre for digital culture and creative technology, which centres around a colourful zigzag-shaped staircase. Read more ›   James Burleigh, &tradition, Voltra and Clayworks showcase products on Dezeen Showroom James Burleigh, &tradition, Voltra and Clayworks are the latest brands to showcase products on Dezeen Showroom, which launched earlier this week. Read more ›   WNDR Alpine develops skis made from algae Utah startup WNDR Alpine has replaced the polluting, petroleum-based plastics usually used to wrap wooden skis with algae-based bioplastics that make them "more predictable, stable and durable". Read more ›   Edition Office rearranges The Melburnian Apartment around oak wood volumes Towering, pale wood volumes hide the functional elements of this apartment in Melbourne, Australia which has been overhauled by local architecture studio Edition Office. Read more ›   Reeded cordless lamp by Arnold Chan for Voltra Dezeen Showroom: London-based designer Arnold Chan has created a cordless light for Voltra that flickers and glows like a candle. Read more ›   Atelier Oï previews forthcoming glass collection on Dezeen in a live talk and guided tour In this live Dezeen talk in collaboration with Atelier Oï, the Swiss architecture and design studio reveals its forthcoming collection of glass artworks and gives a guided tour of its workplace, which features an exhibition of the new work. Watch here from 1:30pm UK time. Read more ›   Geometric timber roofs cover Diamond Domes tennis courts in Switzerland Swiss timber company Neue Holzbau has created a pair of geometric cross-laminated timber roofs for two indoor tennis courts by Rüssli Architekten in Bürgenstock, Switzerland. Read more ›   Alabaster cordless lamp by Arnold Chan for Voltra Dezeen Showroom: London designer Arnold Chan has created the Alabaster lamp collection from smooth stone set in a metal base for lighting brand Voltra. Read more ›   About Time: Fashion and Duration exhibition at The Met celebrates 150 years of fashion Set designer Es Devlin has created two clock-like gallery spaces for the latest fashion exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which compares design over 150 years. Read more ›   "The resources we need are no longer in the ground, but in landfill" We need to recategorise waste as a raw material to begin the transition to a circular economy, says Wasted: When Trash Becomes Treasure author Katie Treggiden. Read more ›   Competition: win a copy of In Memory Of: Designing Contemporary Memorials As part of Dezeen's collaboration with Phaidon we are giving away five copies of In Memory Of: Designing Contemporary Memorials, by Spencer Bailey. Read more ›   Connected virtual exhibition sees nine designers craft carbon-negative furniture from hardwoods Dezeen promotion: a range of carbon-negative furniture items created by designers including Ini Archibong and Thomas Heatherwick for London's Design Museum can now be viewed as part of a permanent virtual exhibition. Read more ›   Clay Plasters Rustic Range by Clayworks Dezeen Showroom: the sustainable Clay Plasters Rustic Range by Clayworks provides a rugged surface finish that can mimic the appearance of concrete, stone and earth. Read more ›   Architecture | Interiors | Design | Technology | Jobs           You have received this because you are subscribed to Dezeen Daily. Update newsletter preferences | Unsubscribe | Forward to a friend Dezeen Limited, 8 Orsman Road, London N1 5QJ, UK Contact us | Submit a story | Advertise