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British startup The Tyre Collective has begun to make products from the microplastic particles that come off car tyres as they drive on roads, producing results including jewellery, a lamp and a battery. Read more

So simple. So good. Minimalist Toilet Paper Storage Device.

Booths demonstrating a hybrid-electric aircraft and other innovative projects as well as talks by scientists like Bill Nye were among the climate-focused presentations at the Climate Science Fair held on New York’s High Line. Read more

Local architecture studio Practice for Architecture and Urbanism has installed a glass office building with a vaulted roof inside the shell of the 19th-century Domino Sugar Refinery on the waterfront in Brooklyn. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: a collection of colourful carpet tiles designed to gradually fade into one another is among eight new products featured on Dezeen Showroom. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: design studio Arnau Reyna has created the Owwi seating collection for office furniture brand Actiu, which features a wrap-around back and armrests designed to envelop the sitter. Read more

Promotion: four international researchers have explored ways to develop energy sources that are both renewable and compostable using bacteria and biomaterials. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: from elaborate art deco patterns to the clean vertical lines of reeded glazing, American materials manufacturer 3form has released a range of new textures for its glass alternative Vari. Read more

Winding balconies and outdoor learning spaces feature in Kindergarten of Museum Forest, a curvy building that Chinese studio Atelier Apeiron has added to an existing nursery in Shenzhen. Read more

British architecture studio Stanton Williams has designed a 35,000-square-metre academic building for the University College London, located in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Read more