Sucks to be him! How Henry the vacuum cleaner became an accidental design icon.
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Smashing idea: how East Germany invented ‘unbreakable’ drinking glasses
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French post office releases scratch-and-sniff baguette stamp
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Saudi Arabia’s 105-mile long Line city has been cut a little short – by 103.5 miles
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‘We’ve lost the art of city building’: can the planner behind a tech-funded metropolis win over the skeptics?
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The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same
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Sculptor sues Swedish glassmaker Kosta Boda for €1m in test of EU ‘bestseller clause’ – landmark case may open door to retrospective claims across bloc
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Bollards and ‘superblocks’: how Europe’s cities are turning on the car
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Campaigners seek listed status for Finnish sauna from 1948 Olympics – wooden hut is Britain's oldest operating sauna and ‘hugely important’ piece of sporting history
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Architecture lovers can spend the night in a modernist masterpiece designed by Alvar Aalto – former TB sanatorium is now Finland's most unusual holiday let
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At the Icelandic home of Katrín Þorvaldsdóttir, foraged material like seaweed is turned into masks, clothing and even shoes
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‘They found ways to do the impossible’: Hipgnosis, the designers who changed the record sleeve for ever
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A Swedish town is on the move, one building at a time – subsidence from the world's biggest iron ore mine threatens to swallow up the Arctic town of Kiruna
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Disney to build a branded community promising “magic” in the California desert
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Vintage IKEA! A 1960s armchair just sold for £12k – here are ten other surprising secondhand Swedish hits
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IKEA goes glam rock with Zandra Rhodes collaboration – British fashion designer teams up with Swedish furniture chain after being inspired by lockdown
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Sucks to be him! How Henry the vacuum cleaner became an accidental design icon.
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Gothenburg's bold plan to be world's best rainy city – it rains nearly 40% of the time in the Swedish city, so why not try to make the most of it?
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Can Malmö's green points system help rewild London? Transformation of a Swedish shipyard into a leafy haven inspired London's 'urban greening factor' plan.
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Greta Thunberg features on Swedish postage stamp – illustration of activist is part of a series highlighting government's environmental quality goals
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Amid protests, Norway's government has begun tearing down a landmark building adorned with giant murals by Pablo Picasso
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Copenhagen fashion week announces radical sustainability goals – hopes to transform it into a platform for advocacy with tough new environmental requirements for participants
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The case for making low-tech 'dumb' cities instead of 'smart' ones
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'The perfect combination of art and science': Mourning the end of paper maps
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Architects behind Lapee say pink spiral design could end gender toilet inequality
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Notre Dame: Time to call in the French builders with medieval skills
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Hand dryers vs. paper towels: The surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands
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Coyote fur is a booming fashion trend. But is it ethical?
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Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: The 'pencil towers' of New York's super-rich
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How an emerging African megacity cut commutes by two hours a day
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Desire paths: The illicit trails that defy the urban planners
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'For me, this is paradise': Life in the Spanish city that banned cars
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An inversion of nature: How air conditioning created the modern city
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Who owns the space under cities? The attempt to map the ground beneath our feet
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