An easily biodegradable material that could be "part of a global answer" to single-use plastic pollution has won its inventor, British designer Lucy Hughes, the international James Dyson Award. More about UK student's fish-waste bioplastic MarinaTex wins 2019 James Dyson Award top prize
Ash-wood surfaces, translucent glass screens and brass feature inside this serene clinic in Valencia, which Francesc Rifé Studio has designed in reference to Asian meditation rooms. More about Meditation spaces inform minimalist interior of Valencia's Swiss Concept clinic
ArkDes has mounted an exhibition celebrating the role of concrete panels in contemporary architecture, with an exhibition design by Note Design Studio that evokes the dynamism of a construction site. More about Flying Panels exhibition charts the evolution of prefabricated concrete-panel construction
Dezeen promotion: in our latest competition, we've partnered with architecture forum The World Around to give away two tickets to its conference taking place for the first time in January 2020. More about Competition: win two tickets to The World Around's inaugural conference in New York
Plywood panels and fabric curtains have been used by by Kooo Architects to transform an existing concrete structure into a guesthouse in Guangzhou, China. More about Kooo Architects inserts plywood-lined hotel rooms into an existing concrete frame
US studio The New Design Project has decorated this West Village cookie shop with speckled terrazzo, beige tiles and creamy walls to reference the baked goods for sale. More about West Village cookie shop decorated with palette of "biscuit beiges and chocolate browns"
Dezeen promotion: Nomos Glashütte has introduced two Bauhaus-influenced watches, the Tangente midnight blue and the Tangente 38 midnight blue. More about Nomos Glashütte's watches take cues from Bauhaus style
Italian designer Luca Nichetto has created furnishings, including tables, sofas and benches, to be used in workspaces, residences and museum galleries. More about Luca Nichetto designs modular furniture to work in public spaces and the home
Designers in India are rejecting the western canon and instead searching for home-grown approaches to their discipline. More about Indian designers dismiss "design-school propaganda" as they decolonise their work
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Design firms Bloco Arquitetos and Equipe Lamas used a mix of warm and cool materials in their refurbishment of a visitor centre in Brasília, designed by the late architect Oscar Niemeyer in the 1960s. More about Oscar Niemeyer's Tea House in Brasília gets refresh by Bloco Arquitetos and Equipe Lamas
This week we've selected four companies with plenty of job opportunities available on Dezeen Jobs, including a number of vacancies at architecture studio Büro Ole Scheeren and Philippe Starck's design studio. More about Four companies with multiple roles on Dezeen Jobs including Büro Ole Scheeren and Starck Network Agency
MAS Architecture Studio favoured passive ventilation over high-tech solutions in this installation for Dubai Design Week, which reimagines Emirati wind towers using 480 layers of recycled cardboard. More about MAS Architecture Studio's wind tower keeps visitors cool without air-conditioning
The Object is Absent is a multi-strand installation that focuses on the designers' bodies rather than the objects they create, to demonstrate a shift in the priorities for the next generation of makers. More about The Object is Absent is a "less materialistic" design exhibition for an overcrowded world
Terry Farrell and Nicholas Grimshaw built Park Road Apartments, which contained their own homes, in the 1970s. We continue our high-tech architecture series by looking at the metal-clad housing block. More about Park Road Apartments is a radical housing tower clad in "ridiculous" metal
Dezeen Day generated eight tonnes of carbon emissions, according to a "quick and dirty" environmental audit of the conference by Sophie Thomas. More about Environmental audit reveals the carbon footprint of Dezeen Day conference
Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum has erected three prefabricated houses at the Sharjah Architecture Triennial, to highlight the families that relocate their homes as river channels move within the Bengal Delta. More about Marina Tabassum brings prefabricated Bangladeshi homes to Sharjah
Design studio Office AIO has arranged partitions inside this pink-hued Beijing coffee shop to frame vignettes of customers enjoying their hot drinks. More about Basic Coffee in Beijing is designed to be "like a live advertisement"
Kids can identify plants, flowers and wildlife in their area while adding to a global biodiversity database that helps monitor the planet's health, using the augmented-reality app Seek by iNaturalist and the WWF. More about Seek app builds biodiversity database as users identify plant and animal species
ASWA Studio has designed as its architecture studio in Bangkok around a fully glazed internal courtyard that brings daylight into the building. More about ASWA wraps own architecture studio around internal courtyard