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• Rippling red brick facade shades house in Surat by Design Work Group
  

  

  Design Work Group has completed a family home in the Indian port city of Surat, which features a gently undulating brick facade that offers shade from the sun. Read more

  
  
  
• LA's tallest skyscraper opens
  

  

  The Wilshire Grand Center, America's tallest building west of the Mississippi River, has officially opened in Los Angeles. Read more

  
  
  
• RCA graduates propose new Strata system as a way to extend the lifecycle of furniture
  

  

  Royal College of Art graduates Katrine Hesseldahl and Victor Strimfors have designed a modular sofa made from three distinct layers in an attempt to combat furniture waste. Read more

  
  
  
• Go Logic launches line of prefab homes with New England aesthetic
  

  

  American design-build firm Go Logic has created a range of factory-made dwellings that were designed using passive house standards and can be constructed onsite in less than two weeks. Read more

  
  
  
• Norway scraps plans for controversial memorial near site of 2011 Utøya terrorist attack
  

  

  Plans to cut a "wound" into a Norwegian peninsula in memory of the victims of terrorist Anders Breivik have been abandoned following years of opposition from locals. Read more