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Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has championed the importance of creativity in tackling global issues like climate change and gender equality, becoming the first in his position to do so in 25 years. More about "Design and technology are changing the way we live" says Justin Trudeau
UK prime minister Theresa May has committed an extra £2 billion to building new affordable housing – but the figure is nowhere near high enough to solve the housing crisis, according to Royal British Institute of Architects president Ben Derbyshire. More about UK government's £2 billion housing pledge is not high enough, says RIBA president Ben Derbyshire
Dezeen promotion: an exhibition of Design Academy Eindhoven graduates, Dezeen's Good Design for a Bad World talks progamme, and a robot research centre are among the 600 events taking place during this year's Dutch Design Week. More about Dutch Design Week announces full programme for 2017 edition
A warehouse filled by pink and blue light features in this visual identity that Danish film director Nicolas Winding Refn has designed for movie streaming service and distributor MUBI. More about Nicolas Winding Refn creates neon-lit warehouse as ident for MUBI films
There are dozens of jobs openings for talented interior designers listed on Dezeen Jobs right now. We've picked out six of the best, including positions with Dutch designer Marcel Wanders, London studio Spacelab and the Kansas City office of architecture firm Populous. More about Six exciting interior design positions on Dezeen Jobs this week
For a 1950s home in Los Angeles' elite Bel Air neighbourhood, architect Andrea Lenardin Madden has added an angular volume with floor-to-ceiling glass that extends over the landscape. More about Andrea Lenardin Madden adds cantilevering extension to midcentury LA residence
Tower blocks like Grenfell should never have been built, according to 2018 Royal Gold Medallist Neave Brown, who believes high-rise housing ostracises council tenants and should instead be reserved for the most wealthy in society. More about High-rise buildings should only be used to house the very rich, says Neave Brown
Google has launched a pair of wireless headphones that incorporate its voice assistant feature, meaning they can translate 40 languages in real time. More about Google's new headphones double as a personal translator
Designer Adam Nathaniel Furman explains how his Gateways installation for London Design Festival showcased the history of Turkish ceramic tiles, in this movie filmed by Dezeen for Turkishceramics. More about Adam Nathaniel Furman creates sequence of tiled archways at London Design Festival
Instead of a typical paper CV, graduate designer Andy Morris has created a Lego Minifigure in his own likeness to send out to potential employers. More about Design graduate uses Lego Minifigure as his CV
As part of its long-standing collaboration with environmental initiative Parley for the Oceans, Adidas has updated one of its classic shoes from the 1990s with yarns made from waste plastic. More about Adidas uses Parley ocean plastic to update one of its classic shoe designs
Architecture studio LT2A has added a brick extension to a school near Lille, featuring an entrance sheltered by an anodised-aluminium canopy, and circular windows that provide glimpses of courtyard gardens. More about Lille school extension by LT2A features porthole-like windows and golden details
Omar Gandhi Architect just completed its latest house, which sits on Nova Scotia's rugged coastline. We've therefore rounded up five of the Canadian firm's residential projects, all designed to maximise their dramatic settings and create cosy escapes from harsh weather. More about Five serene Canadian retreats by Omar Gandhi Architect
New York studio LOT-EK has built a family home in Brooklyn by stacking shipping containers, and cutting them at an angle to create terraces stepped down its back. More about LOT-EK slices shipping-container stack to form Williamsburg home
This captioned movie offers a tour of this year's MPavilion, designed by Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten of OMA. Featuring footage shot by a drone, the film gives a closer look at the building's seemingly unsupported roof and its amphitheatre-like interior. More about Drone footage showcases "floating" roof of OMA's MPavilion
The first photos have been released of Norman Foster's newly completed European headquarters for Bloomberg in London, which claims to be the world's most sustainable office building. More about Foster + Partner's Bloomberg headquarters is the "world’s most sustainable office"
Dezeen promotion: Swiss architect Mario Botta has completed an unusually shaped restaurant in the alps, which combines natural stone cladding with Jansen's steel facade system. More about Mario Botta pairs stone with Jansen steel frames to create striped facade for Swiss mountain restaurant
Aston Martin has collaborated with submersibles manufacturer Triton to create a concept for a limited-edition submarine, which it hopes will "redefine luxury for a select few". More about Aston Martin reveals plans for million luxury submarine
Steep, pointy roofs and square windows that frame views of the landscape figure into this pine-clad retreat in the northeastern US, by design studio New Affiliates. More about New Affiliates creates asymmetric mountain cabin in Vermont