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Aberrant Architecture has created a huge playground in a former Madrid slaughterhouse, based on the work of Dutch architect Aldo van Eyck. More about Landscape for Play is a huge colourful playground in Madrid
Works by Heatherwick Studio, Paul Cocksedge and Nendo feature in an exhibition at New York gallery Friedman Benda, which pools together artists and designers from Generation X. More about New York exhibit An Accelerated Culture celebrates Generation X designers
Design firm Yabu Pushelberg has completed a decadent hotel in New York's Times Square featuring lush green walls and a moody dining room with electric blue banquettes. More about Yabu Pushelberg designs The Times Square Edition as "ultimate counterpoint to its surroundings"
Thatched bamboo roofs shelter a beach hut resort built by Vo Trong Nghia Architects on a small island off the Cat Ba Archipelago on Vietnam's northern coast. More about Vo Trong Nghia Architects builds Castaway Island Resort from bamboo
Amsterdam-based clothing brand Senscommon has collaborated with textiles company Uchino Japan to launch a clothing collection made using activated charcoal. More about Senscommon and Uchino Japan launch "self-purifying" charcoal clothing
This week on Dezeen, Clerkenwell Design Week took place in London and the 58th Venice Art Biennale opened its doors to a host of exhibitions, pavilions and installations. More about This week, Clerkenwell Design Week and Venice Art Biennale took place
Architects and designers have come up with inventive ways to create privacy in open-plan offices. From plants to tunnels, here are the floor plans of 10 workplaces that are divided in unusual ways. More about Ten offices with floor plans divided in interesting ways
There are just five days to go until Dezeen Awards 2019 entries close, so here are five reasons to enter our award-winning awards programme. More about You still have five days left to enter Dezeen Awards 2019
Shelves stagger along the walls of this Williamsburg apartment, which local architecture firm Buro Koray Duman designed for a Brooklyn couple with thousands of books. More about Angled bookshelves define Publisher's Loft by Buro Koray Duman in Brooklyn
Architecture firm MAD has proposed building a snowflake-shaped third terminal at Harbin Airport, China, which would feature indoor gardens for travellers. More about MAD reveals "snowflake" design for China's Harbin Airport Terminal Three
A United Nations report has found that Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, and other female-voiced digital assistants "reinforce commonly held gender biases". More about United Nations criticises voice assistants for promoting gender biases
Interlocking volumes clad in zinc, cedar, stucco and glass form this family dwelling in northern California by US studio Aidlin Darling Design. More about Tree House by Aidlin Darling engages with wooded site in Silicon Valley
Architects Bjarke Ingels and Simon Frommenwiler have teamed up to create a brightly hued house that can be taken apart and rebuilt, for 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen. More about Bjarke Ingels and Simon Frommenwiler build jigsaw-puzzle house in Copenhagen
Fungus, yeast-based bioplastic and other materials grown by microbes have been used to make the Korvaa headphones, designed by Finnish studio Aivan in collaboration with scientists. More about Aivan grows headphones from fungus and yeast
The Dalí Museum in St Petersburg, Florida has used a controversial artificial intelligence technique to "bring the master of surrealism back to life". More about Museum creates deepfake Salvador Dalí to greet visitors
Dutch practice UNStudio has unveiled a masterplan for Karle Town Centre, a garden-filled smart city in Bengaluru where buildings will be covered in cooling white paint. More about UNStudio masterplans smart city in Bengaluru
A floating dairy farm has opened in Rotterdam, showing how food production can become less vulnerable to climate change. More about Floating Farm in Rotterdam is now home to 32 cows
A four-metre-wide path now hangs underneath the Pont Adolphe bridge in Luxembourg, with a lightweight steel system that acts like a "well-controlled spider's web". More about Christian Bauer suspends pedestrian and cycle path beneath Pont Adolphe in Luxembourg
Scooter sharing platform Bird has launched a new electric scooter that claims to be "more durable, powerful and longer-lasting" than previous models, and can be bought as well as hired. More about Bird One is the "most advanced and safe e-scooter on the road today"