Charge’s electric truck can be built in just four hours

Charge truck

British automotive company Charge has unveiled its vision for the “future of electric trucks“, with an autonomous vehicle that can be assembled in four hours. Read more

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Philadelphia office building by BIG takes cues from old battleships

Philadelphia Navy Yard by BIG

Bjarke Ingels Group has completed an office facility in the Philadelphia Navy Yard with a facade that curves like the bow of a ship. Read more

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Richard Meier releases more images of black tower for New York

Black Tower New York City by Richard Meier & Partners

American architect Richard Meier has followed up teasers of a black tower planned for New York‘s East River with a wider set of images showing the firm’s interiors for the building. Read more

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10 minimalist bathrooms that have barely anything in them

10 best minimalist bathrooms on Dezeen

Although bathrooms tend to be the most minimal room in the house, we’ve rounded up 10 of the most extreme examples, including a lonely bathtub in a Dutch townhouse and a copper-lined washroom in an English countryside property. Read more

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Winners of Australian National Architecture Awards revealed

Competition: five Arckit 180 modelling sets to be won

Win and Arckit 180 modelling kit

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Arckit to give away five modelling kits from its new series. Read more

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Job of the day: architecture programme manager at the British Council

Dezeen Jobs architecture and design recruitment

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for an architecture programme manager at the British Council in London, which commissioned an exhibition of work by designer Thomas Heatherwick (pictured). Read more stories on the British Council, or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.

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New Contour Compression activewear comes with built-in sports tape

Embargo: Sportswear with built-in kinesiology tape by Python Performance

A new sportswear brand is making garments with panels of woven fabric that mimic the effects of pain-relieving kinesiology tape. Read more

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XL-Muse designs interiors at Chinese hotel for millennials

Wheat Youth Arts Hotel by XL-Muse

Custom-made artwork cover the walls of social areas in this Chinese hotel by Shanghai studio XL-Muse, which features interiors and furniture designed to attract younger guests. Read more

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Perforated green cladding wraps university science institute by Cláudio Vilarinho

IBS Institute of Science and Innovation for Bio-sustainability by Claudio Vilarinho

Irregularly shaped perforations in the pale green facades of this new university research institute in Portugal are inspired by the tubular molecules that form solar panels. Read more

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