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NASA certifies first 3D printer for use in space
News: a 3D printer approved by NASA will be flown to the International Space Station next year so astronauts can print components, tools and equipment on-demand in space. More
News: a 3D printer approved by NASA will be flown to the International Space Station next year so astronauts can print components, tools and equipment on-demand in space. More
News: architecture firm Aedas has won a competition to design a twisting 33-storey skyscraper for Shanghai, China (+ slideshow). More
Istanbul Design Biennial 2014: British curator and writer Zoë Ryan has been appointed as curator of the second Istanbul Design Biennial, to be held from 18 October to 14 December 2014. More
News: British industrial design firm Dyson has launched a tiny vacuum cleaner for British homes, which are the smallest in western Europe and often lack space to store a full-size cleaner. More
News: Parisian design agency RSi-studio have sent over the image that won them the award for Best Commissioned Architectural Image at the 2013 CGarchitect 3D Awards last month. More
News: French architect Jean Nouvel has been officially declared winner of the competition to design the prestigious National Art Museum of China in Beijing, ending months of speculation. More
News: police in Germany plan to 3D print a gun to test whether the weapon can pass through security checks undetected. More
News: a designer who developed a technique for harnessing bees to create physical objects has accused a major brand of exploiting his work. More
News: a masters student at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles has developed a method of using a robotic arm to 3D print objects in a tank of gel, allowing freeform printing without the need for support structures and potentially adding an "undo" function to remove errors (+ movie). More
News: Herzog & de Meuron, Zaha Hadid and Grimshaw are among the shortlisted architects in a competition to overhaul Melbourne's iconic nineteenth-century railway station at Flinders Street. More
News: the seminal London home designed by British architect Richard Rogers for his parents - and which influenced his later design for the Pompidou Centre - has been put on the market for the first time since it was built in 1968 (+ slideshow). More
The three-legged, leaf-shaped side table that sparked a revolution in self-assembly furniture over 60 years ago is returning to IKEA stores next month. More
News: a book of photographs showing domestic life in Tehran was temporarily blacklisted by online payments company PayPal for having the word "Iranian" in the title (+ slideshow). More
UK designer Thomas Heatherwick has released images of a technology education building under construction at Nanyang Technology University in Singapore. More
News: London architects Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP) have been appointed to design a new terminal at Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport at Lyon in France. More
News: architecture firm OMA has been selected to design a major mixed-use public building featuring angled blocks stacked like dominoes for downtown Santa Monica, California (+ slideshow). More
News: Dutch office UNStudio has won a competition to design a world trade centre in the growing city of Wenzhou, China, with proposals for a family of segmented skyscrapers. More
News: the founder of a new magazine celebrating the work of interns in the creative industry has spoken of the dangers of creating a culture on unpaid labour (+ interview + slideshow). More
News: a camera that allows users to focus photographs after they've been taken has launched in the UK. More
News: D&AD chairman Dick Powell has moved to defuse the controversy over a speech advising young people to "work for nothing" in order to get a job in the creative industries. In a letter to Dezeen, Powell states that "there are no circumstances where working unpaid in any capacity is acceptable on any level" and adds: "I apologise to your readers who may wrongly have a different impression". More