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This month’s Dezeen In Depth newsletter looks at the impact of the Hollywood strikes on designers and features an interview with Japanese architect Junya Ishigami. Subscribe to Dezeen in Depth now. Read more

This week on Dezeen, we reported that BIG completed its first supertall skyscraper, a 66-storey commercial high-rise wrapped with a series of stepped terraces. Read more

New Orleans-based architecture studio Eskew Dumez Ripple has clad a Connecticut museum with a stone facade reminiscent of local quarries and « monolithic massing ». Read more

Tall roof monitors lend a sculptural look to the Gradient House and Studio, which was designed by Oregon studio Linden Brown Architecture for the founders of a shoe design company. Read more

Dezeen School Shows: a pair of hand-woven, hand-dyed rugs depicting urban development in Qatar is included in this school show by Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar. Read more

“Some things can become true merely because we believe in them–that pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. When modern economists assumed that people are innately selfish, they advocated policies that fostered self-serving behavior. When politicians convinced themselves that politics is a cynical game, that’s exactly what it became.” ― Rutger Bregman From the book: Humankind A …

Old and new buildings wrap around a stepped courtyard in this central London school, which has been sensitively renovated by architecture studio HawkinsBrown. Read more

French interior design Studio FB and the co-founder of fashion brand Frame, Erik Torstensson, have designed a California-informed store for the brand in London. Read more

Reef structures made from human ashes and accessories created from fermented vegan leather feature in this video by Dezeen for Dutch Design Week of the BioArt Laboratories exhibition. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: Italian designer Elisa Ossino has created a minimalist interpretation of festive Japanese lanterns in the Madco portable table lamp for Ambientec. Read more