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This week, Heatherwick unveiled the centrepiece for New York's Hudson Yards development

This week on Dezeen: this week British designer Thomas Heatherwick presented a structure comprising 154 staircases for a vast development in Manhattan's West Side and we geared up for next week's London Design Festival.

Thomas Heatherwick's Vessel structure at Hudson Yards
Heatherwick unveils staircase structure as "centrepiece" for New York's Hudson Yards

Heatherwick's Vessel will be made up of a series of metal-clad staircases and landings that connect to form a honeycomb pattern, and will sit at the centre of New York's Hudson Yards.

The Smile by Alison Brooks
Alison Brooks creates giant smile using cross-laminated tulipwood

Installations for this year's London Design Festival were unveiled across the city today ahead of the official opening, including a smile-shaped CLT structure by Alison Brooks and a block of black marble sculpted to look like the sea.

Brexit Design Manifesto
Conran, Rogers and Heatherwick back Dezeen's Brexit Design Manifesto

We launched our Brexit Design Manifesto during an event at Somerset House. The manifesto is now backed by more than 150 of the UK's leading design figures including Heatherwick, Terrance Conran and Marc Newson.

James Dyson
UK should trigger Brexit immediately says James Dyson

In other Brexit news, the RIBA wrote to the government to warn that construction is facing a skills deficit, while inventor James Dyson said the UK should leave the EU sooner rather than later.

Museum dedicated to architecture models opens in Japan
Museum dedicated to architecture models opens in Japan

A museum dedicated to architecture models opened in Japan, but plans for a new outpost of the Guggenheim in Helsinki were thrown into doubt.

BIG transforms its website into a classic 1980s arcade game
BIG transforms its website into a classic 1980s arcade game

Paulo Mendes da Rocha was named architecture laureate for the 2016 Praemium Imperiale arts prize, and Bjarke Ingels' firm unveiled a duplicate version of its website that mimics 1980s video game Arkanoid.

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Open-plan offices make workers more unfriendly and less productive

A survey revealed that workers in open-plan offices are more distracted, unfriendly and uncollaborative than those in traditional workplaces. Also, Italian furniture brand B&B Italia bought high-end kitchen maker Arclinea.

Asdfg Architekten converts former miller's house into contemporary home
Asdfg Architekten converts former miller's house into contemporary home

Popular stories on Dezeen this week included a former miller's house converted into a contemporary home, a monochrome holiday home in Iran and photographs of the completed VIA 57 West "courtscraper" by BIG.

VIA 57 West by BIG
Iwan Baan photographs BIG's completed VIA 57 West tower in New York

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