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Fashion brand Prada has worked with local design studio 2×4 to cover a New York City store in seafoam-green scaffolding designed to shift visually with changing light and weather. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: Australian designer Alexander Lotersztain and his furniture brand Derlot aimed to bring contemporary refinement to beam seating with Platform, a system for transport terminals. Read more

Local studios Jaime Prous Architects and Pineda & Monedero have completed Casa 144º, a corrugated metal-clad home near Barcelona that is raised above a steeply sloping site on skinny steel stilts. Read more

American studio SOM has designed a pair of stepped, wedge-shaped towers to be a landmark for the new city of Alatau in south-eastern Kazakhstan. Read more

Set designer Sean Thomson has created a news kiosk at London‘s ICA art centre to showcase a zine by fashion designer Thom Browne and photographer Robbie Lawrence. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: restaurants can design custom cordless table lamps that encapsulate their aesthetic using the bespoke design service of lighting brand Neoz. Read more

University of Edinburgh researchers have used bacteria to break down plastic waste and turn it into a Parkinson’s drug, advancing a new approach known as « bio-upcycling ». Read more

The latest edition of the Collectible fair in Brussels saw designers explore seating with a difference, presenting daybeds made from beeswax and metal, inverted sofas and a gigantic inflatable seat. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: a table lamp that recalls the segmented, architectural silhouette of Victorian chimneys is among five new products featured on Dezeen Showroom. Read more

Red Bull‘s GamePop magazine has developed a « first-of-its-kind » cover with a built-in display and controllers, allowing readers to play a game of Tetris on its paper surface. Read more