Halfbike riders stand while pedalling to navigate the city
This captioned video spotlights Halfbike, a three-wheeled vehicle designed by transportation start-up Kolelinia which allows riders to stand up while pedalling. More
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Juri Troy Architects creates 37-metre-long house and studio in the Rhine Valley
This black building stretches 37 metres along a narrow plot in the heart of Austria's Rhine Valley to provide a home for a young family and a studio for a graphic designer (+ slideshow). More
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Halfbike II is a pedal-powered vehicle for navigating city streets
Transport design company Kolelinia has launched an updated version of its Halfbike – a three-wheeled vehicle similar to a pedal-powered Segway (+ movie). More
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Cork Helmet covers the head to muffle noise pollution
Milan 2015: Brussels designer Pierre-Emmanuel Vandeputte has created a cork helmet that lowers over the wearer's head when they need a respite from ambient noise. More
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Insect-infused Jungle Bars are boosted with powdered cricket protein
A team of Icelandic designers has launched chocolate protein bars made from powdered crickets. More
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Dezeen Mail #248
Marc Newson's samurai sword, a pared-back mosque featuring a "cave-like" prayer room (pictured) and photographs of "ugly" Belgian houses feature in this week's Dezeen Mail. Click through for the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
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Competition: six Buster + Punch LED light bulbs to be won
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with London design label Buster + Punch to offer readers the chance to win one of six LED Buster bulbs in the colour of their choice. More
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Jongerius and Schouwenberg launch manifesto against "depressing" design industry
Milan 2015: designer Hella Jongerius and theorist Louise Schouwenberg are to launch a manifesto calling for an end to "pointless products, commercial hypes and empty rhetoric" in design. More
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Sculptural staircase connects two mosaic floors in an old fisherman's cottage in Sicily
A staircase formed of wooden boxes and platforms, and supported by a black metal framework, rises up through this Sicilian residence that was recently renovated by Milanese architect Francesco Librizzi. More
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Henning Larsen Architects to design outpost for Swedish National Museum
Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects has been selected to design a new branch of one of Sweden's most important art galleries, which will form an extension of a century-old regional museum in Östersund. More
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David Kohn's Sanderson House extension conceived as a fox in the garden
This London house extension features a red brick exterior thought to look like a profile of a fox and a multi-hued interior that references Adolf Loos' Modernist houses of the 1920s (+ slideshow). More
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Benjamin Hubert slots Inlay sofa's legs inside opened corner seams
Milan 2015: Belgian brand Indera will launch this modular sofa system by London designer Benjamin Hubert in Milan next week. More
