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Dezeen Showroom: VicBooth Office created by acoustic design brand Vicoustic is a collection of phone booths and meeting rooms designed to create sound-insulated spaces within open plan offices. Read more

Legislation is needed to force architects to prevent the mass slaughter of birds that « didn’t evolve to deal with glass », experts have told Dezeen. Read more

British architecture practice Foster + Partners has revealed its masterplan design for a new 117.4-hectare city in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, that will include residential neighbourhoods, education, medical and leisure facilities. Read more

American musician Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, and design technology company Kano have launched Stem Player, a pebble-shaped device that allows users to customise songs in the palm of their hand. Read more

Sitelab Urban Studio has completed the first phases of a mixed-use development called 5M in San Francisco’s SoMa neighbourhood with Kohn Pederson Fox (KPF) as lead architect. Read more

The latest edition of our Dezeen Agenda newsletter features an exclusive interview with Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum, who told Dezeen why she only works in her home country. Read more

US studio Deborah Berke Partners has overhauled a pair of Victorian-era townhouses at the University of Pennsylvania and added a terracotta-clad extension that is meant to be contextually sensitive. Read more

Japanese architect Tadao Ando has transformed a building that was once home to video game giant Nintendo into a boutique hotel. Read more

London-based Studio Seilern Architects has enclosed the Gouna Festival Plaza in the Red Sea resort of El Gouna, Egypt, with a trio of colonnades. Read more

Swedish architecture studio ASKA has drawn on the existing 1930s architecture for its refurbishment of Stockholm beauty salon MBS by Malika, adding arched shapes and oak veneer panelling. Read more