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Urbanitree uses local materials and construction methods for African Flow School in Cameroon

Patterned walls of rammed-earth bricks and carpentry in local hardwoods celebrate "ancestral materials and methods" at the African Flow School, a kindergarten in Cameroon designed by Barcelona-based architecture studio Urbanitree.

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Five ideas that marked 20 years of Helsinki Design Week

On the heels of the 20th anniversary edition of Helsinki Design Week, Dezeen reporter Jane Englefield rounds up five enduring Finnish design principles she spotted at the city's biggest industry festival.

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Canada launches nationwide home building agency focused on mass timber

The government of Canada has launched Build Canada Homes, a federal agency that will leverage public-private partnership "to build affordable housing at scale and at speed" in order to address the country's housing.

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"Squat at the ICA" invites designers to show work for free during London Design Festival

Designer Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian is taking over London's Institute of Contemporary Arts to host a pop-up design fair that doesn't charge for participation, in a bid to "redistribute access and opportunities" within the industry.

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Roo Dhissou builds cob house inside V&A using mud from HS2 excavation sites

Artist Roo Dhissou and UK studio Intervention Architecture have designed Heal, Home, Hmm, a modular pavilion made using Punjabi mud building techniques, which is on display at the V&A as part of the London Design Festival.

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All(zone) creates fabric pavilions in Shanghai to turn the city into "a shared canvas"

Architecture studio All(zone) has curated the Shanghai Picnic installation for the RAM Assembles architecture biennial, which features a series of pavilions made from colourful fabrics.

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Readers say "a big yes to more fun and small cars" in this week’s Dezeen Debate

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Herzog & de Meuron embraces "no-design architecture" for Calder Gardens

Architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron and landscape designer Piet Oudolf have completed the Calder Gardens art institution, composed of underground galleries and a large reflective wall that slices through its site in Philadelphia.

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Multifunctional space designed for families among projects from Istituto Europeo di Design

Dezeen School Shows: a multifunctional space designed to fit the varying needs of families is among the projects from Istituto Europeo di Design.

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