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The interior of London’s most recent Aesop store in Marylebone was organised to reference a bookshop and features bespoke timber cabinetry by furniture designer Sebastian Cox. Read more

Local studio Lab La Bla sourced diabase rock from a nearby mine and created seating from MDF and recycled cork for the interior of energy company E.ON’s headquarters in Malmö, Sweden. Read more

Local studios Inaba Williams Architecture and Kyle May have created a cafe in New Jersey oriented around massive structural columns and bright, colourful elements. Read more

Architect Jesús Vassallo and a team of graduate students at Rice University have added a pavilion made of cross-laminated timber panels to the Houston campus. Read more

Local architecture studio Romero de la Mora has created an expansive concrete and wood holiday home with a protected courtyard in Tepeji del Río, just outside Mexico City. Read more

Dezeen School Shows: sustainable packaging for flowers that can be folded into a vase is included in Dezeen’s latest school show by students at Georgia Institute of Technology. Read more

Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos has created the 12 -metre-high Wedding Cake pavilion, which is clad in ceramic tiles, at Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, England. Read more

The next generation of designers will need to account for a crisis of sexuality and should aim for asexual design language, French designer Philippe Starck tells Dezeen in this interview. Read more

In this week’s comments update, readers are debating a feature in our AItopia series that examines the question of whether AI technology will end up taking architects’ jobs. Read more

Today is Earth Overshoot Day, marking the date when humanity’s consumption of resources exceeds the planet’s annual capacity to regenerate them. It should serve as a reminder for designers to take the lead in building a more sustainable future, writes Sian Sutherland. Read more