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Scientist Roxana Chicas has collaborated with the Georgia Institute of Technology to create a wearable biopatch for outdoor workers to monitor and protect their health. Read more

Toronto studio LGA Architectural Partners has created a shelter for Indigenous women affected by domestic violence, ensuring the building and interiors honour their traditions. Read more

Prefabrication specialist Blok Modular has worked with Australian architecture studio Vokes and Peters to create Blok Three Sisters, a trio of prefabricated holiday homes on North Stradbroke Island in Queensland. Read more

Autumn is well on its way in the northern hemisphere. To mark the seasonal shift, we’ve compiled a lookbook of eight open-plan living rooms cosied up with warm, earthy tones. Read more

This month’s Dezeen In Depth newsletter examines the future of lab-grown meat and features an interview with Iris van Herpen. Subscribe to Dezeen In Depth today! Read more

This week on Dezeen, RIAS announced four buildings in contention for this year’s Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland award, including a bridge clad with local granite. Read more

Massachusetts-based designer and professor Iman S Fayyad has created a shelter from standard sheets of plywood, moulding it and fastening it with straps to form a « collective space » that is easy to assemble for the Chicago Architecture Biennial. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: from cork flooring to materials made from recycled plastic, the following surfaces are among those recently published on Dezeen Showroom. Read more

US president Donald Trump has announced that there will be a 30 per cent tariff on upholstered furniture being imported to the USA from the start of October. Read more

British architecture studio Medium has completed its renovation of Hearth House, a 1950s country home in Surrey, bringing clarity to a series of hotchpotch extensions. Read more