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Swiss studio Herzog & de Meuron has completed The Discovery Centre, a glass-clad facility for research and development designed for pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca in Cambridge. Read more

Next up in our review of 2021 is a roundup of Dezeen’s top 10 bar and restaurant interiors this year from across the globe, including a sushi eatery in a converted post office and a cavernous pizzeria. Read more

Last week Dezeen reported on the invention of Wondaleaf, an adhesive prophylactic which its creator claims is the world’s first unisex condom. Here, we round up eight other contraceptive designs with the potential to challenge ideas about sexual health. Read more

With its choice of a shade of purple, which it claims is blue, as colour of the year, Pantone has once again failed to use the opportunity to talk meaningfully about how colour reflects moments, says Michelle Ogundehin.Read more

Image source While learning how to make your own website, ensuring it has an appealing design is also essential. Web design affects 94% of first impressions and accounts for 75% of your site’s credibility. It’s also an effective way to stand out from competitors.  However, there are many factors and elements in website design that …

Interested in studying fashion and textiles? Check out six fashion and textile courses in the UK, USA and online listed on Dezeen Courses. Read more

Designer Thomas Heatherwick‘s studio has proposed retaining and rewilding the frame of a partly demolished shopping centre to form a new mixed-use development and public leisure space in Nottingham. Read more

Izquierdo Lehmann Arquitectos and Francisco Saul have completed a block of five row houses in Santiago, which are grouped under a large roof to give the impression of a single residence. Read more

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features ODDO Architects’ design for a family home in Hanoi, Vietnam. Read more

Architect and designer Neri Oxman and her husband, the hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, have been told to modify plans drawn up by Norman Foster for a glass penthouse on a 1920s building in New York. Read more