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Architecture studio Foster + Partners has revealed 50 Electric Boulevard, an 18,580-square-metre workplace within London’s Battersea Power Station development. Read more

A disaster-proof chandelier from Lebanon and a towering sand dune-style stone installation feature in Arab Design Now, the main exhibition at the inaugural Design Doha biennial. Read more

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, electronics brand Lenovo has unveiled a laptop concept with a transparent screen that allows users to see through the device. Read more

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a trio of incomplete skyscrapers in downtown Los Angeles that have been covered in graffiti. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: UK-based brand Karndean Designflooring has expanded its range of Van Gogh flooring to include six new herringbone-style, oak-effect surfaces. Read more

First-time data on Australia‘s gender pay gaps has revealed the country’s 22 biggest architecture firms pay men between five and 27 per cent more than women, failing to meet the government’s target pay gap range. Read more

On the heels of a two-year research process, Dutch studio Raw Color has released an IKEA collection in which no item features less than two colours in a bid to explore how our perception of a hue can change based on its context. Read more

British company Tate & Lyle Sugars has unveiled a rebrand of its Lyle’s Golden Syrup for the first time since the inception of the sugar syrup brand in the late 19th century. Read more

Promotion: Industrial Facility has created several furniture designs for Herman Miller that aim to transform underutilised spaces into agile workspaces. Clerkenwell-based Industrial Facility designers Sam Hecht and Kim Colin first collaborated with Herman Miller in 2007, designing furniture collections that « balance the need to live a full life with the desire to keep things simple ». …

An angular black volume sits atop a cork-clad ground floor to form Casa 9, a home that Italian studio LCA Architetti has added to a valley on the border between Italy and Switzerland. Read more