Earthquake-resistant Christchurch library | BIG lamp | Mirrored house in Detroit

Latest architecture and design news from Dezeen. [View online]( [Dezeen Daily]( [Mutina]( [Schmidt Hammer Lassen wraps earthquake-resistant Christchurch library in golden screen]( [Schmidt Hammer Lassen wraps earthquake-resistant Christchurch library in golden screen]( Christchurch Central Library has been designed by [Schmidt Hammer Lassen]( as a "symbol of hope, unity, and rebirth" for the city in [New Zealand](, which was ravaged by an earthquake in 2011. [Read more ›]( [Dripping machine creates ceramics that marry technological precision with hand-made characteristics]( [Dripping machine creates ceramics that marry technological precision with hand-made characteristics]( [Eindhoven](-based Studio Joachim-Morineau has designed a dripping machine that combines technology with human error to create [ceramics]( with individual structures, patterns and textures. [Read more ›]( [Five geoengineering solutions proposed to fight climate change]( [Five geoengineering solutions proposed to fight climate change]( If humans can't reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, can we design our way out of [climate-change]( catastrophe? Last week's UN report shone a light on [geoengineering](, a discipline that proposes large-scale interventions to counteract global warming. So what ideas are geoengineers proposing? [Read more ›]( ["Hiring an African American woman on your leadership team is a step in the right direction"]( Improving the [diversity]( of your architecture firm will help you win more projects, says [Gabrielle Bullock](. [Read more ›]( [BIG and Artemide's Gople lamp helps plants grow indoors]( [BIG and Artemide's Gople lamp helps plants grow indoors]( [Bjarke Ingels Group]( has teamed up with Italian lighting brand [Artemide]( to create a colour-changing lamp designed to help plants grow. [Read more ›]( [Top five roles in visualisation on Dezeen Jobs this week]( [Top five roles in visualisation on Dezeen Jobs this week]( We've selected the top five visualiser roles available on [Dezeen Jobs]( this week, including opportunities with [Hayes Davidson]( and [London-based architecture firm WilkinsonEyre](. [Read more ›]( [VeloMed plastic mesh helps volunteers transport seven times as many medicine boxes]( [VeloMed plastic mesh helps volunteers transport seven times as many medicine boxes]( Industrial design graduate Gwen Gage's has created a [plastic]( mesh that connect medication boxes together to allow easier delivery of malaria medicine in remote sub-Saharan African villages. [Read more ›]( [Fernanda Canales completes reflective pavilion for Design Week Mexico 2018]( [Fernanda Canales completes reflective pavilion for Design Week Mexico 2018]( Trees, bark chips and visitors are all reflected in mirrors behind the severe black exterior of this [pavilion](, which Mexican architect [Fernanda Canales]( created for [this year's Design Week Mexico](. [Read more ›]( [Doug Aitken installs mirrored house in historic Detroit building]( [Doug Aitken installs mirrored house in historic Detroit building]( American artist [Doug Aitken]( has created a house-shaped pavilion clad entirely in mirrors inside a former bank in [Detroit](, Michigan. [Read more ›]( ["Humans are clever. They can solve problems. There is hope"]( We are entering a new geological era: the anthropocene, in which human activity is a dominant influence on earth's geology and environment. At [Dutch Design Week](, a special edition of our [Good Design for a Bad World]( series will ask if design can harness this phenomenon to prevent global catastrophe, writes [Marcus Fairs](. [Read more ›]( [Mutual recognition of UK and EU architect qualifications would end with no-deal Brexit]( [Mutual recognition of UK and EU architect qualifications would end with no-deal Brexit]( If the UK leaves the European Union without a [Brexit]( deal, the automatic mutual recognition of architecture qualifications between the two sides will no longer exist, making it more difficult for firms in one territory to hire staff from the other, it has emerged. [Read more ›]( [Coalesse Design Group relocates studio to Munich]( [Coalesse Design Group relocates studio to Munich]( Dezeen promotion: US furniture brand Coalesse has moved its design studio from San Francisco to Munich, with the aim to boost its international reach. [Read more ›]( [Studio MK27 updates and expands Gama Issa house in São Paulo]( [Studio MK27 updates and expands Gama Issa house in São Paulo]( Brazilian firm [Studio MK27]( has renovated and enlarged a [house]( designed by its founding partner in the early 2000s, which features white surfaces and huge windows that open to the garden. [Read more ›]( [Phan Thao Dang transforms sewage pipes into benches and stools]( [Phan Thao Dang transforms sewage pipes into benches and stools]( California-based designer Phan Thao Dang has created a series of corrugated [furniture]( objects from pipes conventionally used to carry waste sewage. [Read more ›]( [Rieder]( [Architecture]( | [Interiors]( | [Design]( | [Technology]( | [Jobs]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Pinterest]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( [LinkedIn]( You have received this because you are subscribed to Dezeen Daily. 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