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Dezeen Showroom: designers have been using glass to create furnishings for many years – here, we detail some of the products on Dezeen Showroom made from the material. Read more

Promotion: Welsh brand Smile Plastics’ products promote the « imaginative, repetitive reuse » of plastic in a bid to mitigate its environmental impact. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: British brand Tornado continues its minimalist wall lighting range with the Linear Plaster lamp, which can be used as a light source in an emergency. Read more

Architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron has unveiled Kornmarktplatz, an arched structure that extends behind a neo-baroque facade in Bregenz and contains an apartment and hotel. Read more

Architecture studio KPF has unveiled plans to turn the Foster + Partners-designed HSBC tower in Canary Wharf, London, into « a blueprint for the highly sustainable, mixed-use building of the future ». Read more

Designers are increasingly manufacturing their own limited-edition products rather than waiting for brand or gallery partnerships. Dezeen editor-at-large Amy Frearson looks at what is driving this shift. Read more

Architecture studio GMP Architekten has completed the renovation of the post-war Hyparschale hall in Magdeburg, Germany. Read more

Bahamian artist Tavares Strachan has positioned a large-scale model of a ship in a rooftop pond at London’s Hayward Gallery, forming an outdoor installation to accompany his current art exhibition There Is Light Somewhere. Read more

Local studio CookFox Architects has added an extension to an early 1900s building in the Upper West Side, paying homage to its historic character. Read more

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the unveiling of Buckingham Palace’s refurbished east wing. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Read more