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The process of recycling can actually make plastics more hazardous to human health, according to a recent Greenpeace report that calls on the United Nations to rule it out as a scalable fix for plastic pollution. Read more

Local studio EBBA Architects has designed a store for eyewear brand Cubitts that preserves and draws on the original 1930s interior of the traditional F Cooke restaurant on London’s Broadway Market. Read more

Dezeen Courses: interested in studying design? We’ve rounded up five undergraduate design programmes at institutions based in the UK, Italy, Spain and Australia. Read more

Germany’s contribution to this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale is a huge store of materials recovered from last year’s art biennale, all set to find new uses around the city. Read more

This year’s Melbourne Design Week has focused on bringing together diverse perspectives, festival curator Timothy Moore tells Dezeen in this interview. Read more

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a red brick cafe in South Korea by Seoul studio Sukchulmok. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Read more

British architect Peter Cook, who is working on the controversial The Line mega city in Saudi Arabia, has reportedly questioned whether the project will be realised according to plan. Read more

Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron has completed the restoration and conversion of a power plant on a decontaminated industrial site along the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. Read more

We’ve selected five UK-based architecture roles on Dezeen Jobs this week, including positions at Richard Parr Associates, MICA Architects and MSMR. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: Italian brand Lualdi and architect Piero Lissoni have added to their L7 door system design with L7 Edit, a line featuring new glass textures and graphic metal framing details. Read more