Chinese automaker Geely has launched a new car brand with sharable locks and an open platform designed to make its vehicles “the most connected in the world”. Read more
Lynk & Co cars let owners easily start their own sharing business
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Restaurant and coffee bar open inside brutalist Met Breuer museum
The lower level of The Met Breuer museum in New York now houses a space for visitors to dine and drink in the surrounds of the brutalist-style building. Read more
Restoration work completes on sculpture gallery at Philip Johnson’s Glass House
The sculpture gallery designed by American architect Philip Johnson in the grounds of his iconic Glass House in Connecticut has been restored to its former glory. Read more
Top 10 architecture books of 2016
A Frank Lloyd Wright monograph disguised as a children’s book and a photo reportage of African modernism shot by Iwan Baan have been chosen as the top 10 books about architecture from 2016. Read more
CHROFI wins Australian conservatory contest with “hovering cube” design
Five of the best exhibitions to see at Dutch Design Week 2016
With Dutch Design Week just around the corner, we’ve rounded up five of the event’s best exhibitions, including a gastronomic venture from Maarten Baas and a show exploring erotic displeasure. Read more
OMA, MAD and Studio Gang compete for Tour Montparnasse redesign
OMA, MAD and Studio Gang are among seven teams vying to overhaul Paris’ Tour Montparnasse – a 209-metre tower that caused such uproar on completion that it sparked a 42-year skyscraper ban in the city. Read more
Call for entries to Experiential Beer Garden competition 2016
Dezeen promotion: entries are now open for architects and designers to submit ideas to transform a 16th-century Italian villa into a beer brewery. Read more
FOMO Survival Kit helps users overcome their fear of missing out
Multimedia designer Lara Défayes has designed a three-piece survival kit to help with the uniquely contemporary condition known as FOMO. Read more
6a Architects adds timber-clad halls to 1960s campus at University of Cambridge
London studio 6a Architects designed these student halls at the University of Cambridge’s Churchill College to pay homage to the “picturesque Brutalism” of the original 1960s campus architecture. Read more
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