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Architect Matthew Springett and educator Fiona MacDonald, who collaborate as Matt + Fiona, have worked with children with autism to design and build a sensory playground. Read more

Dezeen promotion: the LafargeHolcim Awards is open for entries, calling professionals as well as the next generation of designers to share their sustainable architecture projects. Read more

The latest Dezeen x MINI Living video explores The D*Haus Company's vision for flood-resistant Georgian-style housing, which claimed first prize in our Dezeen x MINI Living Future Urban Home Competition. Read more

News: Swanke Hayden Connell Architects – the firm behind the Fifth Avenue Trump Tower and the Statue of Liberty restoration – has filed for bankruptcy, claiming that it is owed $2 million dollars by a Russian client. (more…) View the full article

A visitor centre designed by local firm Maber Architects in Leicester, England, includes a glass floor that provides views of a 3D-printed replica of the remains of notorious English king Richard III on the spot where his bones were discovered (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architecture for London has designed the interiors of this north London extension to appear "like a neatly ruled grid in a notebook", hinting at the professions of its two inhabitants. Read more

Milan 2016: London-based designer Michael Anastassiades has debuted his first range of furniture for US company Herman Miller, in an installation themed around a 1915 painting. (more…) View the full article

Frida Escobedo describes her first public project La Tallera, an art gallery which was once the studio of the late muralist David Alfaros Siqueiros, in this exclusive video interview with Dezeen. Read more

British designer Tom Dixon has launched a tea set made of spun brass. (more...) View the full article

London firm Haworth Tompkins has been appointed to lead a major seafront redevelopment in West Sussex, England – eight years after a controversial scheme by California architect Frank Gehry was scrapped. (more…) View the full article

Product news: here's a slideshow of new furniture and pendant lamps that New Zealand furniture company Resident will present in Milan next month. (more...) View the full article

Stockholm-based Note Design Studio has created minimal furniture for live cooking demonstrations at the newly opened Mall of Scandinavia. (more…) View the full article

We've selected five of the best vacancies in industrial design available on Dezeen Jobs, including positions with architecture firm Foster + Partners and tech giant Apple. Read more

Soft indents create hundreds of spots across the concrete walls of this health centre in northeast France, designed by Atelier Martel to offer support and treatment to epilepsy sufferers (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This low-cost centrifugal device by British designer Jack Albert Trew fits onto the wheel of a bicycle, providing a simple blood diagnosis for patients in remote parts of Africa (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The third annual Antepavilion is a three-storey colourful rooftop structure designed by Maich Swift Architects that will be used as a canal-side theatre and is topped with a light beacon. Read more

Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre has a triple height glazed foyer with a timber ceiling designed by Haworth Tompkins for a school in Cambridge. Read more

IM Interior has transformed a garage in Vilnus into a 21-square-metre micro home clad in Corten steel in order to demonstrate "another way of life". Read more

New York's Museum of Modern Art is closing its architecture and design galleries for refurbishment, but the institution is unable to confirm that they will reopen in the same format. (more…) View the full article

Last month's Łódź Design Festival showed the work of the most promising Polish design talents alongside thematic exhibitions and workshops. Here are ten up-and-coming designers and their projects. Read more

Highlights from Milan design week, a clifftop house in Japan by John Pawson and a bicycle by Ikea features in this week's edition of Dezeen Mail. Read Dezeen Mail issue 302 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Kennerly Architecture & Planning has completed a San Francisco residential building with a number of distinctive features, including a perforated metal gate, white plastic cladding and lush landscaping (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The latest Dezeen competition offers readers the chance to win a Capas rug designed by Mathias Hahn for Nanimarquina. Read more

With the 2015 Venice Art Biennale kicking off next month, architecture firm Denton Corker Marshall has unveiled the new pavilion Australia will now use for its exhibitions – an austere black box looming over a canal (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Danish design studio Oeo has used the wooden planks produced by Dinesen to create furniture and structures within the brand's new flagship showroom in Copenhagen (+ movie). (more…) View the full article