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“What if this darkness is not the darkness of the tomb but the darkness of the womb? What if our America is not dead but a country that is waiting to be born? What if the the story of America is one long labor?” – Valarie Kaur

Shoe brand Veja’s Brooklyn store by local studio Office JDY features lime-plaster walls and displays, exposed brickwork and an outdoor courtyard wrapped in red-coloured wood. Read more

British studio Hugh Broughton Architects has completed a timber enclosure made of interlocking larch slats to screen off a pump house for west London’s Kew Gardens. Read more

For our latest lookbook, we’ve rounded up seven dental clinics from The Netherlands to Canada with interiors that were designed to make visiting them a more pleasant experience. Read more

This week on Dezeen, we reported that construction of the world’s tallest skyscraper, the Jeddah Tower by Adrian Smith + Gill Gordon Architecture, officially resumed in Saudi Arabia. Read more

Architecture firm Estudio AMA has released designs for a 90-metre-high residential tower in Paraguay wrapped in balconies supported on a concrete grid. Read more

Dezeen School Shows: chairs made from flax fibres and PLA plastic are included in this School Show from the Royal Danish Academy. Read more

Promotion: the School of Architecture and Design at IE University in Spain has launched a fully funded award for students to apply for its Master of Interior Design in Madrid. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: Alejandra Gandía-Blasco Lloret has added the Valentina Up dining chair to her outdoor furniture collection for Diabla, channelling the range’s characteristic crisscrossing metal frames into a versatile seat. Read more