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The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features glass lifts designed by Olson Kundig for Seattle's Space Needle. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Olson Kundig and Otis Elevators have added all-glass double-decker elevators to the exposed core of Seattle's Space Needle as part of its ongoing renovation. This week's newsletter also included a

American studio ZGF Architects has revealed designs for an angular Navy SEAL Museum on the harbourfront of San Diego, USA, meant to evoke the site and contemporary martial qualities. The studio's design connects the residential Lane Field Park neighbourhood with the waterfront esplanades of San Diego, California. Its design features metallic volumes and strict geometries

Architectural designer Isabel Strauss has designed a public bathroom for the grounds of German-American architect Walter Gropius's self-designed home in Massachusetts, USA, chosen from hundreds of submissions. Strauss designed the winning submission for the contest initiated by preservation organisation Historic New England with her design called One Bathroom After Another, which mirrors the footprint of

Dezeen Showroom: rounded forms and slender outlines make up Turkish furniture brand Parla's Rise A armchair, the product of synergy between designer and maker. The Rise A armchair is designed for comfort and versatility, with a construction that is suitable for both indoors and outdoors and plush cushioning that lets sitters sink into deep rest.

Architecture studio Rever & Drage has expanded a cluster of rural buildings in Norway, adding a barn-like form that steps up a sloping, rocky site. Named Smallholding at Nesjestranda, the site was already home to a group of three buildings: a red barn, a guest annexe and a white home, to which the new extension

Despite it being adopted more slowly than he anticipated, Patrik Schumacher believes parametricism will still become a universal architectural style, he tells Dezeen in this interview. Almost two decades have passed since Zaha Hadid Architects principal Schumacher coined parametricism as a term at the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale. At the time, he declared parametricism "the great

Dezeen Showroom: architecture studio Gensler worked with US furniture brand KFI Studios to produce this sheltered workstation for modern offices. Canopy is a freestanding workstation developed by Gensler's product design team to give people privacy and control in the midst of open offices while bringing a modern and refined aesthetic. It incorporates a height-adjustable desk for

British company Team Repair has launched a STEM learning kit specifically designed for grown-ups, using a dummy object to teach people how to fix their own phones. The Repair Kit for Grown-Ups: Mobile Phone Edition takes users step-by-step through the process of diagnosing and fixing a broken smartphone. In doing so, it acquaints them with

Following the release of Home for Now: Living Well Without Staying Long, a book spotlighting interior design for rental homes, authors Paul Firmin and Niko Dafkos talk Dezeen through eight of the most inspiring examples. As founders of Earl of East, a London-based lifestyle brand specialising in scent products, Firmin and Dafkos wanted to show

Emerging designers explored sustainability and everyday designs for the Shared Matter exhibition at Milan design week, which had a focus on international collaboration. On show inside the pastel-blue gallery of Spaziovento in Milan's central Brera district, Shared Matter opened with a ceiling-hung installation of the Re27 lightbulb by Paris and Lausanne-based Iiode. Made partly out