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Central Saint Martins graduate Bruno Schillinger combined randomly selected characteristics to create a collection of desktop products with functions dictated by their forms (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2014 officially kicks off today! We'll be pinning products, installations and exhibitions by some of the world's best designers to our dedicated Pinterest board throughout the week. Follow our London Design Festival 2014 Pinterest board » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more London Design Festival 2014 stories View the full article

This week Frank Gehry responded to criticism of his architecture by wielding his middle finger to gathered journalists (pictured), and we reported on the Chinese president's call for an end to "weird architecture" in China. Read on for more architecture and design highlights, plus our track of the week. (more...) View the full article

News: Thomas Heatherwick's £175 million Garden Bridge proposal for London has been approved by Westminster Council amid claims it will be the "most expensive footbridge in the world". (more…) View the full article

Japanese architect Kazuteru Matumura has gutted the interior of an old townhouse in Osaka, creating a minimal two-storey home that can be partitioned with curtains (+ slideshow). (more…)

Architecture firm SOM has released its masterplan for a new privately funded capital city for Egypt – a 700-square-kilometre development that will boast one of the world's largest urban parks and over 100 new residential neighbourhoods (+ slideshow). (more…)

Music: French director Hugo Moreno presents an animated urban landscape that blends ancient Mesopotamian and mid-century Modern architecture in this music video for Art Department's track Walls. (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

MAMM Design has completed a two-storey residence in Kai, Japan, featuring a long mezzanine described as a street where the family can come together (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The last chair designed by late Danish cabinetmaker Frits Henningsen has been put back into production by furniture company Carl Hansen & Søn. (more…) View the full article

Japanese designer Yuta Takahashi created the pared-back packaging for these natural chocolate bars to reflect their simple ingredients (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The A-frame exterior of this mountainside cabin in Whistler was designed by Canadian studio Scott and Scott to mimic neighbouring 1970s chalets. (more…) View the full article

Architecture students at Boston's Northeastern University are petitioning for improved studio space, alleging their current working conditions are unsanitary, unsafe, cold and cramped. (more…) View the full article

Herzog & de Meuron's Tate Modern extension, a gravity-defying observation tower (pictured) and Jonathan Ive's swipe at contemporary designers feature in this week's edition of Dezeen Mail. Read Dezeen Mail issue 304 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Milan 2016: in our final movie from Nike's The Nature of Motion show, designer Bertjan Pot explains how he created a series of "resting pods" by weaving basket-like structures around inner tubes from different vehicles. (more…) View the full article

British artist and designer Gerry Judah's latest sculpture for the Goodwood Festival of Speed is a set of six giant steel spikes that curve upwards to the sky, supporting three historic BMW cars (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Rio 2016: more than half of the buildings set to house athletes during the Olympics and Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro are still not fully ready, with less than two weeks to go until the start of the games. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival 2016: with this year's London Design Festival less than a month away, Dezeen's Alice Morby selects her pick of the best installations and exhibitions that will be taking place across the capital. (more…) View the full article

Bubble-wrap partitions reveal the former layout of a derelict west London hotel as part of an installation by UK artist Michael Iveson (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Oslo design studio StokkeAustad has created a modular furniture system for Norwegian brand Elementa that can be easily expanded for changing workspaces. Read more View the full article

A proposal for a five-storey school in Melbourne has won the title Future of the Year 2016 at the World Architecture Festival. Read more View the full article

This blackened timber house in Melbourne curves around an olive tree garden, and was designed by BLOXAS Architecture for a client with a severe sleeping condition. Read more View the full article

This week's roundup from Pinterest finds homes that borrow from their rural locations and use natural materials, including a 19th-century barn conversion in rural Germany and a Barcelona apartment with exposed stone walls. Read more View the full article

Homes without internal walls, kitchens or bathrooms are being billed as a solution to housing crises around the world, after NL Architects won the Mies van der Rohe Award for its refurbishment of the Kleiburg apartment block in Amsterdam. Read more View the full article

American firm Marlon Blackwell Architects has created a bright red medical facility for children that is meant to stand apart from its bland, suburban-style neighbours. Read more View the full article

Emergency services have treated Apple staff for injuries caused by walking into glazed walls at the company's new Foster + Partners-designed Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, according to reports. Read more View the full article