This week's Dezeen Mail features Eurostar's redesign "disaster", a mile-high skyscraper proposal for Tokyo and an e-ink mobile phone designed to prevent users from acting like "mindless zombies" (pictured).
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Supermarket receipts could introduce graphics showing nutritional information to help solve the "obesity epidemic", proposes UK designer Hayden Peek. More about Hayden Peek aims to tackle obesity with supermarket receipt graphics
Architects office McGonigle McGrath has been granted planning permission to transform a heritage-listed war memorial building in Belfast, Northern Ireland, into a boutique hotel. More about McGonigle McGrath to convert Belfast memorial building into boutique hotel
British artist Damien Hirst has created the interiors for his own restaurant inside the Caruso St John-designed Newport Street Gallery in Vauxhall, London – 13 years after his last restaurant closed (+ slideshow). More about Damien Hirst designs his second Pharmacy restaurant for Newport Street Gallery
Dutch landscape firm West 8 has masterplanned a new botanical garden in Houston, Texas, featuring a mosaic of gardens and a bridge incorporating an arch of trees. More about West 8 plans botanical garden for Houston featuring an arching tree bridge
American electronics company Polaroid has launched a range of 3D printers, aiming to make "3D printing become part of everyone's everyday life". More about Polaroid becomes "first household name" to launch home 3D printer range
The trio of white concrete blocks that form this Mexico City home have been arranged around a shallow pool and a tree by architecture studio Taller Hector Barroso (+ slideshow). More about White concrete house by Taller Hector Barroso surrounds a tranquil pool
Stockholm 2016: the Knot cushion has gone into production with Swedish brand Design House Stockholm, and is one of only a few cushion to be sold in the MoMA store (+ slideshow). More about Design House Stockholm puts Ragnheiður Ösp Sigurðardóttir's Knot cushion into production
Inside Festival 2015: in this exclusive movie, architect Pan Yi Cheng explains how his studio Produce Workshop created two separate shops in the same space at Singapore's School of the Arts. More about Produce Workshop uses wooden trellis to create connected shops inside Singapore art school
Stockholm 2016: Swedish design brands Massproductions and Wästberg have teamed up to open a new studio and showroom inside a Neomodernist building in Stockholm's Hammarby quay (+ slideshow). More about Massproductions and Wästberg open joint Stockholm showroom by Guise
Brooklyn creative agency Quoted Studios has produced an animated video using audio excerpts from an interview with legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright, recorded two years before his death (+ movie). More about Frank Lloyd Wright interview from the 1950s revived in animated movie
3XN has unveiled plans to build a residential tower in Aarhus that will be almost as tall as the Danish city's cathedral. More about 3XN wins approval for Aarhus tower rivalling the height of the city's cathedral
New York fashion house Threeasfour has unveiled a pair of 3D-printed dresses based on biological forms and textures. More about Fashion label Threeasfour unveils two 3D-printed dresses for Biomimicry collection
Stockholm 2016: Form Us With Love has added acoustic panels that look like wood to its Baux architectural products line, continuing the trend for noise-reducing products at this year's Stockholm Furniture Fair (+ slideshow). More about Form Us With Love expands Baux acoustic panel range with Plank wood-effect designs
London firm Haworth Tompkins has been appointed to lead a major seafront redevelopment in Brighton and Hove, England – eight years after a controversial scheme by California architect Frank Gehry was scrapped. More about Haworth Tompkins chosen to replace Gehry on Brighton seafront redevelopment
Stockholm 2016: Swedish design brand Swedese has launched a set of square seating modules that can be mixed with backrests, tables and planters (+ slideshow). More about Roger Persson creates furniture "smörgåsbord" with Konnekt system for Swedese
Dutch firm Benthem Crouwel Architects has rebuilt the central railway station in The Hague with a huge diamond-patterned glass roof (+ slideshow). More about Benthem Crouwel's new station for The Hague brings light in through a patterned glass roof
Canadian firm Architecture Open Form had to negotiate strict preservation requirements with this renovation of a 125-year-old dwelling in Montreal (+ slideshow). More about Architecture Open Form creates black facade for historic Montreal home
A shadowy room with gabion walls and a suspended canopy made of wooden slats are among the winners of a juried competition to design installations for this year's International Garden Festival, in Quebec, Canada. More about Installations for Quebec garden festival to include stone pavilion and suspended cone