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Dezeen Space: Dutch designers Merel Sloother, Liat Azulay and Pieter Frank de Jong unveal a prototype of their Feats per Minute project, a bicycle that allows you to play records on its wheels as you cruise through the city, at our our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Lee Broom will also launch two faceted pendant lights in white and gold at the London Design Festival next month (see our earlier story on his Architrave collection). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This holiday home by Brazilian architect Isay Weinfeld comprises three perpendicular volumes built into a slope in Piracicaba, Brazil. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swedish architects Visiondivision have created this undulating concrete habitat for crayfish in a stream in Sweden. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: a resurgence of handmade architecture is one of the biggest themes to emerge from this year's Venice Biennale, according to Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the Royal Institute of British Architects‘ Future Trends Survey for September points to a drop in the number of architectural practices anticipating increased demand for their services. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A car service pavilion with a canopy shaped like a giant Pringle potato crisp has been completed in northern Germany by GRAFT Gesellschaft von Architeken (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Detroit has approved the timeline for SHoP Architects' replacement for the historic Hudson's department store, which will begin construction in December and become the city's tallest building. Read more View the full article

We’ve just sent the latest issue of Dezeenmail – take a look at it here. Dezeenmail contains a selection of Dezeen’s best stories and comments, along with all our latest competitions, jobs and highlights from Dezeenwire, Dezeen Screen and Dezeen Watch Store. You can subscribe here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: Studio 7.5 has designed the Cosm chair for Herman Miller with an automatic tilting mechanism that gives users "a feeling of weightlessness". Read more View the full article

We’ve just sent out the latest issue of Dezeenmail – have a look at it here. Dezeenmail is sent out roughly every two weeks and contains a selection of Dezeen’s best stories and comments, along with all our latest competitions and jobs. You can subscribe here. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: Lace, bows, flowers and pearls feature in the Candelaria collection by Viennese fashion house Narbon, in a celebration of maximalist femininity. Read more View the full article

Architect Bruno Stevens has added a sunken slate-clad ceramics studio to a house on a sloping site in Belgium. Read more View the full article

This glass house by Belgian architects Govaert & Vanhoutte has a 50-metre-long wall at the back and an underground swimming pool at the front. (more…) View the full article

UK designers Studiofibre have complete the west London headquarters of fashion brand Net-A-Porter. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New York practice John Puttick Associates has won the competition to redevelop the Brutalist 1960s bus station in Preston, England, with a design that features a rooftop football pitch, a climbing wall and a skate park. (more…) View the full article

The coronavirus pandemic will force design brands to manufacture more products locally, hold less stock and be less reliant on physical stores, according to designer Tom Dixon. Read more View the full article

Here’s a roundup of the latest from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs, including positions with Design Miami/, Priestmangoode and Universal Design Studio, plus this is the last chance to apply to work with John McAslan + Partners, Cinimod Studio and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

TDO Architecture have created this doll’s house with ramps linking all floors together. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: new plans by Dixon Jones, Squire & Partners and Kim Wilkie to redevelop the controversial Chelsea Barracks site in central London have been approved by Westminster Council - BBC Developer Qatari Diar withdrew its earlier plan by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners in 2009, following criticism of the design from Prince Charles. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New York studio Worrell Yeung has overhauled an awkwardly shaped apartment inside a landmarked hotel in the city, adding decorative marble and brass to reference its history, and a curved plaster hallway to clean up the layout. Read more View the full article

The watchtowers, walls and pathways of a historic fort were repaired and rebuilt as part of this restoration project in the 2000-year-old city of Thula, Yemen, one of 20 projects shortlisted for the 2013 Aga Khan Award. (more...) View the full article

This week MVRDV caused a commotion by designing two towers engulfed in a pixellated cloud that put readers in mind of the World Trade Centre’s destruction on September 11. Meanwhile UNStudio unveiled designs for a Singapore skyscraper with chunks missing from its facade. Artist Olafur Eliasson designed fort-like banking headquarters to rise out of the sea and Thomas Heatherwick completed a Hong Kong shopping centre with waves of stone parting either side of the entrance. On Dezeen Wire Herman Hertzberger was named as the recipient of this year’s Royal Gold Medal for architecture – we’ve rounded up his key projects here - and a sci-fi animation about robots took home o…

A gold pyramid and a suspended rock face feature in British artist Anish Kapoor's abstract set design for the English National Opera's production of Tristan and Isolde (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This wooden pavilion with a protruding canopy was designed by Ramser Schmid Architekten to offer a sheltered outdoor seating area for visitors to the city library in Zug, Switzerland (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article