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This week, Dubai revealed plans to create a two-kilometre elevated walkway and Chinese researchers created a sponge from cotton fibre and squid bone that absorbs 99.8 per cent of microplastics. Scroll down for the headlines and read the full stories on Dezeen...

 

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Squid-bone sponge found to soak up 99.8 per cent of microplastics

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"Transformative figure" Deborah Berke wins AIA Gold Medal

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"We almost got kicked out of Design Miami" say the Haas Brothers

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IKEA revives popular 1970s shelf by Niels Gammelgaard in Nytillverkad vintage collection

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Miami skyscraper by ODP Architects to be "beacon of opulence and exclusivity"

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