New York studio Edg has proposed converting some of Manhattan's major roads into public-transit highways for driverless vehicles, in order to reduce travel times and turn the island's central thoroughfares into landscaped parks. More about Loop NYC driverless-car proposal offers Manhattanites more time and green space
Following a two-year hiatus, the Google Glass augmented-reality headset has made a comeback, and is being targeted exclusively at businesses. More about Google Glass resurrected as a tool for hands-on workers
Our latest captioned movie features modular structures designed by Ten Fold Engineering, which can be transported anywhere on a lorry and self-deployed at the touch of a button. More one-minute movies ›
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Dezeen is giving away five hardcover copies of Fabricate 2017: Rethinking Design and Construction, which brings together the best architecture and design projects involving digital fabrication. More about Competition: win a book detailing digital fabrication projects across architecture and design
British photographer Rory Gardiner took these shots of Christ & Gantenbein's angular concrete extension to the National Museum Zurich when it was bathed in late winter sunlight. More about Christ & Gantenbein's concrete extension to National Museum Zurich photographed by Rory Gardiner
New York-based designer Rosie Li bunched together ball shapes to create her Bubbly series of rainbow-hued brass lights. More about Iridescent soap bubbles inform lighting collection by Rosie Li
Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a studio and business manager to join Yuri Suzuki's London studio, which installed giant pendulums in the courtyard of a Milanese seminary for this year's Milan design week. More ›
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Screens made from black-painted wooden shipping pallets allow light to filter into this family house in Denver, Colorado, designed by local studio Meridian 105 Architecture. More about Meridian 105's Denver house features screens and shutters made of black wooden pallets
American firm Un.Box Studio has transformed historic structures in Austin into a high-design hostel that is meant to serve as an alternative to pricey boutique hotels. More about Un.Box Studio converts neglected stone building into progressive Austin hostel
Snarkitecture's Daniel Arsham has collaborated with Adidas for the first time, on a pair of trainers designed to look like they were chipped away at during an archaeological dig. More about Daniel Arsham bases all-white Adidas trainers on archaeological artefacts
Architects shouldn't be stifled by their disdain for copying successful ideas, from Assemble's pop-up cinema to Shigeru Ban's cardboard structures, says Phineas Harper in his latest Opinion column. More about "Call us dull, call us sellouts, call us gentrifiers – just don't call us copycats"
A stainless steel barge that American architect Louis Kahn designed to host orchestral concerts will be scrapped at a Louisiana shipyard, unless it finds a new owner by the end of the month. More about Louis Kahn's floating concert hall may go to scrap
Readers have been debating the shape of BIG's latest project, a subterranean second world war museum, in this week's comments update. More about "It's not a swastika it's a pinwheel"
To coincide with the opening of an exhibition dedicated to plywood at London's V&A museum, we've rounded up 10 projects from the Dezeen archives that push the material to its limits. More about 10 of the most ground-breaking uses of plywood in architecture and design
Chinese architecture studio MAD has designed a sci-fi-influenced headquarters for Faraday Future, a new car company focussed on electric vehicles, in Northern California. More about MAD unveils "extraterrestrial" campus for electric car brand Faraday Future
Apple has updated its collection of emojis with 52 new icons, including a zombie, sandwich, elf and a woman wearing a headscarf. More about Apple's new emojis include a breastfeeding mother and a woman in hijab
Stacked soil walls resemble layers of cake in this chocolate and ice cream shop in Kichijoji, Tokyo, designed by Japanese studio Nendo. More about Nendo designs Tokyo store interior to look like "melted ice cream cake"
Confectionary giant Mondelez and British chain Poundland are locked in a feud over the discount store's new Toblerone-esque chocolate bar called Twin Peaks. More about Poundland's mountain-inspired chocolate bar sparks legal battle with Toblerone
Design studio Atelier NL is calling on people to send them sand from around the world for a project they will present as ambassadors at this year's Dutch Design Week. More about Atelier NL calls for sand samples from all over the world to make region-specific glass
Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for an architect to join the London studio of RCKa, whose projects include a youth and community centre with a translucent polycarbonate facade. More ›
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