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A sponge made from a fusion of cotton fibre and squid bone could help to clear some of the world’s microplastic pollution after a team of Chinese researchers found it can soak up as much as 99.8 per cent of the particles from water samples. Read more

A tiered, pyramid installation by Hungarian-American artist Agnes Denes has been installed in the Coachella Valley for the fifth edition of the Desert X exhibition. Read more

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a slender home in Wisconsin by Johnsen Schmaling Architects. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Read more

This year’s Design Miami was characterised by experimental work, but that wasn’t always the case at the fair, art-design duo the Haas Brothers tell Dezeen in this exclusive interview. Read more

International design practice Aidia Studio has revitalised a sports complex in Oaxaca, Mexico, by constructing a new grandstand and locker room for a football field. Read more

Promotion: Hong Kong-based school My ArchiSchool has announced a competition calling for children to use artificial intelligence tools to design a school village. Read more

Local practice Studio Ellsinger has topped a small holiday cabin on Sweden‘s west coast with a hat-shaped aluminium roof to « trigger curiosity » and offer protection from its wild surroundings. Read more

Dubai ruler Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has approved the Dubai Walk masterplan to add 6,500 kilometres of pedestrian walkways to the city, including an elevated air-conditioned looped path. Read more

For those still looking for Christmas gifts, we round up this year’s top architecture and design books as part of our review of 2024. Read more

IKEA has announced it will re-release some of its most celebrated vintage designs from the 1960s, 70s and 80s, including a steel-framed shelf that is one of the Swedish furniture brand’s most popular products on the resale market. Read more