Promotion: kitchen and furniture brand Eba has opened its first London showroom, exhibiting its own kitchen and living room designs alongside furniture from other boutique brands. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/18/eba-opens-london-showroom-featuring-its-timeless-kitchens-and-furniture/

A sponge made from a fusion of cotton fibre and squid bone could help to clear some of the world's microplastic pollution after a team of Chinese researchers found it can soak up as much as 99.8 per cent of the particles from water samples. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/18/squid-bone-sponge-microplastics-university-wuhan-technology/

A tiered, pyramidal installation by Hungarian-American artist Agnes Denes has been installed in the Coachella Valley for the fifth edition of the Desert X exhibition. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/17/agnes-denes-living-pyramid-california-desert-x-2025/

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a slender home in Wisconsin by Johnsen Schmaling Architects. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/17/johnsen-schmaling-curtain-house-milwaukee-dezeen-debate/

This year's Design Miami was characterised by experimental work, but that wasn't always the case at the fair, art-design duo the Haas Brothers tell Dezeen in this exclusive interview. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/17/haas-brothers-interview-design-miami/

International design practice Aidia Studio has revitalised a sports complex in Oaxaca, Mexico, by constructing a new grandstand and locker room for a football field. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/17/aidia-studio-sports-complex-grandstand-oaxaca/

Promotion: Hong Kong-based school My ArchiSchool has announced a competition calling for children to use artificial intelligence tools to design a school village. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/17/youth-archidesign-competition-my-archischool-artificial-intelligence/

Local practice Studio Ellsinger has topped a small holiday cabin on Sweden's west coast with a hat-shaped aluminium roof to "trigger curiosity" and offer protection from its wild surroundings. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/17/studio-ellsinger-hee-house-sweden/

Dubai ruler Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has approved the Dubai Walk masterplan to add 6,500 kilometres of pedestrian walkways to the city, including an elevated air-conditioned looped path. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/17/dubai-walk-masterplan-pedestrian/

For those still looking for Christmas gifts, we round up this year's top architecture and design books as part of our review of 2024. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/17/architecture-design-books-2024/

IKEA has announced it will re-release some of its most celebrated vintage designs from the 1960s, 70s and 80s, including a steel-framed shelf that is one of the Swedish furniture brand's most popular products on the resale market. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/17/ikea-nytillverkad-collection-byakorre-shelf-2025-design/

Dezeen Events Guide is creating its annual guide to Stockholm Design Week, which takes place from 3 to 9 February in 2025. The guide spotlights all the key events taking place during the festival. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/17/digital-guide-stockholm-design-week-2025/

Design studio Atelier NL is finding new uses for some of the four million cubic metres of clay being unearthed by the widening of the Maas river in the Netherlands. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/17/meanderende-maas-clay-atelier-nl/

New York-based architect and educator Deborah Berke has won the 2025 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal for her architecture and educational work that "exemplifies innovation, inclusivity, and sustainability". Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/16/transformative-figure-deborah-berke-wins-aia-gold-medal/

Furniture brand Paulin, Paulin, Paulin and American football player Stefon Diggs have displayed the athlete's personal furniture collection and a hybrid speaker/sofa prototype by the brand at a Miami residence during the city's art week. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/16/paulin-stefon-diggs-miami-art-week/

Dezeen School Shows: a rocking chair inspired by water lilies is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at University of Gothenburg. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/16/gothenburg-university-design-projects-dezeen-schoolshows/

Mexican architecture studio Productora has designed a tiled house in Nuevo Le'on that is slated to be raffled off in the annual Tecnol'ogico de Monterrey fundraiser. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/16/productora-casa-oliva-nuevo-leon/

Dezeen Showroom: French furniture brand Tiptoe aimed to bring simplicity and character to its 'Etude chair, a lightweight and stackable design with versions for the lounge and dining room. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/16/etude-chair-collection-tiptoe-dezeen-showroom/

UK studios Bennetts Associates and Citizens Design Bureau have completed a cluster of textured brick volumes to house the BEAM cultural centre in Hertford, England. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/16/beam-hertford-bennetts-associates-citizens-design-bureau/

Spray-on trainers, a water-filtering bottle cap and inflatable self-defence devices for protestors feature in our roundup of the most impactful product designs from 2024. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/16/top-product-designs-2024/