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Dezeen Showroom: office furniture brand Actiu has launched Qyos, its first acoustic meeting pod, designed to create « islands of privacy ». Read more

Raked concrete covers this T-shaped house, which architecture studio Spridd has slotted into a sloped site surrounded by trees on the island of Nacka in Stockholm. Read more

Designer Andu Masebo took great care to avoid making anything « naff or kitsch » when transforming a scrapped car into eight furniture pieces, currently on display at the V&A for London Design Festival. Read more

A recent documentary about The Line mega-project in Saudi Arabia paints a bleak picture of the architecture profession, writes Dana Cuff. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: developed by Italian furniture brand Porro, Linea is a collection of colourful storage units based on rediscovered designs by the late postmodernist Alessandro Mendini. Read more

British studio Zaha Hadid Design has unveiled its Nth Display System, a prototype modular furniture system that was informed by the natural shapes made by erosion, at London Design Festival. Read more

Searches for playgrounds have been climbing steadily on Pinterest over the last year. We round up 10 unconventional playgrounds that encourage socialisation from our Pinterest.Read more

Architecture studio Donald Insall Associates has completed the renovation of the 16th-century Hardwick Old Hall designed by Robert Smythson, in Derbyshire, UK. Read more

Multidisciplinary designer Kustaa Saksi has unveiled In the Borderlands, an exhibition of jacquard textiles at the Helsinki Design Museum, which includes pieces featuring scenery generated by AI software. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: coffee-based waste, recycled plastic and wood are used in the construction of the Bend chair by Thai design brand Waste is More. Read more