It's our 300th edition of Dezeen Mail! In it, we look ahead to Milan design week, reflect on Zaha Hadid's life and work, and highlight the week's best stories and discussions on Dezeen, including space-saving furniture designs for small homes (pictured).
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Milan 2016: with Milan design week just around the corner, the Dezeen team present their pick of the trends already emerging from the world's biggest and most important design fair. More about Dezeen's 10 trend predictions for Milan design week 2016
Architect David Chipperfield has released details of his plans for the Eero Saarinen-designed US Embassy in Mayfair, London, which his firm will convert into a 137-room hotel. More about David Chipperfield reveals plans to convert US Embassy into Mayfair hotel
Dezeen promotion: Pieke Bergmans and Studio Mieke Meijer are among the designers set to exhibit at Ventura Lambrate during this year's Milan design week (+ slideshow). More about Ventura Lambrate to exhibit over 160 designers during Milan design week
Kengo Kuma's firm has converted a concrete office building into a showroom for a Japanese textile company, and tethered it to the ground with carbon fibres to provide earthquake protection (+ slideshow). More about Kengo Kuma anchors Japanese textile showroom to the ground with carbon-fibre threads
Milan 2016: Brazilian duo Humberto and Fernando Campana have used coloured glass to fill blob-shaped gaps in this wooden cabinet for Spanish brand BD Barcelona Design. More about Coloured glass panels form windows into Campana brothers' Aquário cabinet
Osaka studio Process5 Design created this weekend retreat in western Japan to accommodate activities that are usually impossible in a city house (+ slideshow). More about T Weekend Residence by Process5 Design lets residents dine and bathe in sea breeze
Los Angeles-based Standard Architecture has completed a store for fashion brand Helmut Lang that features smooth plaster walls, cove lighting and a light-filled garden (+ slideshow). More about Standard Architecture creates minimal Hollywood showroom for Helmut Lang
Architecture students at Boston's Northeastern University are petitioning for improved studio space, alleging their current working conditions are unsanitary, unsafe, cold and cramped. More about Boston architecture students complain about "unacceptable" studio space
Milan 2016: the latest designer rocking horse comes from Stockholm studio Front, which has based its minimal design for Gebrüder Thonet Vienna on an old bent-wood chair from the furniture brand's archive. More about Front designs bent-wood rocking horse for Gebrüder Thonet Vienna
Milan 2016: Toyota has created an open-top two-seater vehicle made out of wood to combat the idea that "modern cars have to be high-tech machines packed with the latest technologies" (+ slideshow). More about Toyota snubs high-tech cars in favour of wooden concept for Milan design week
Competition: we're giving away a Milano Metro watch by NAVA, courtesy of Dezeen Watch Store, for the best image of Milan's design week posted to Instagram using our #milanogram2016 hashtag. More about Enter Dezeen's #milanogram2016 competition to win a Milano Metro watch
WeWork has unveiled images of its first foray into the co-living trend – a residential block with shared living spaces in New York's financial district, run by new sister company WeLive (+ slideshow). More about Co-working company WeWork unveils its first co-living apartments in New York
Zaha Hadid 1950-2016: Pritzker Prize laureates paid tribute to Zaha Hadid at a private dinner before this year's Pritzker ceremony in honour of Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, which took place in New York on Monday. More about Pritzker Prize winners hold one-minute silence for Zaha Hadid
Dezeen promotion: British furniture brand Ercol will present new products designed for both the home and the office during this year's Milan design week (+ slideshow). More about Ercol to present new seating and home study furniture at Milan design week
Italian artist Edoardo Tresoldi has used wire to recreate an early Christian church on an archaeological site in Siponto, a port town in southern Italy (+ slideshow). More about Edoardo Tresoldi uses wire mesh to reconstruct ancient Roman church in Italy
Milan 2016: Japanese studio Nendo has designed a transparent plastic rocking horse based on I-beams used in building construction. More about Nendo designs transparent plastic rocking horse for Kartell
Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, this year's Pritzker Prize winner, is releasing a number of his residential designs as an open-source resource to help tackle the global affordable housing crisis. More about Alejandro Aravena makes housing designs available to the public for free
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has built a showroom and production facility for a Japanese furniture manufacturer, which features both translucent undulating walls and a simple rectangular roof. More about Sogokagu furniture showroom by Kengo Kuma features wavy translucent walls
Coffey Architects has added a library with a perforated facade to London's Science Museum, as part of a major redevelopment that will also include galleries by Muf, Wilkinson Eyre and the late Zaha Hadid. More about Perforations create dappled lighting inside Coffey Architects' Science Museum research centre