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Dezeen Showroom: workplace furniture brand Humanscale has launched the Float Mini desk – a compact sit-stand table designed to fit into any room of the home. Read more

Australian studio Kennedy Nolan has completed Leftfield, an affordable housing block with a « playful » form of pigmented precast concrete panels in the Brunswick neighbourhood of Melbourne. Read more

After a year-long delay the 19th Asian Games begins in Hangzhou on Saturday. Here, Dezeen rounds up eight new stadiums built specifically to host the sporting tournament. Read more

Construction work has resumed on Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia, a skyscraper designed by Chicago-based studio Adrian Smith + Gill Gordon Architecture, which is expected to become the world’s tallest building. Read more

Delegates from the Global South were denied visas to attend Copenhagen’s UIA World Congress of Architects this summer by the Danish government, despite the event’s stated goal being « leave no one behind ». Read more

LAVA project director Lukas Kronawitter has outlined the thinking behind the masterplan of the Trojena ski resort being developed as part of the Neom project in Saudi Arabia. Read more

Mobility design studio Springtime Design aimed to avoid some of the pitfalls of e-bikes when developing this two-in-one bicycle for German manufacturer Lemmo. Read more

Promotion: Thailand‘s Department of International Trade Promotion is set to display 25 of the country’s strongest artisanal furniture and accessory designs at a number of international design festivals. Read more

Bringing more customers to your bar requires a smart mix of old and new. The fusion of traditional and digital marketing strategies can offer a well-rounded marketing campaign that engages customers both on a local level and across the vast expanse of the digital landscape. In this article, we’ll explore how to effe­ctively integrate traditional …

Architect Daisuke Motogi is presenting his Hackability of the Stool exhibition featuring one hundred alternative ideas for Finnish designer Alvar Aalto‘s Stool 60 as part of London Design Festival. Read more