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World Architecture Festival 2013: after day two at the World Architecture Festival, the final category winners for the awards programme have been revealed. (more...) View the full article

This house in Cologne by SMO Architektur adopts two contradicting architectural theories: the open-plan lower floor references Le Corbusier’s Plan Libre, while the multi-roomed upper floor follows the principles of Adolf Loos’ Raumplan. (more…) View the full article

Jamie McLellan has designed this chair for New Zealand brand Fletcher Systems using traditional log-cabin knuckle joints. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in the first of our series of interviews with designers presenting their work at Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space, architect Julian Hakes talks about his Mojito Shoe, which has no footplate and wraps around the wearer’s foot in a single ribbon. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: UK industry body Anti Copying in Design (ACID) is calling on designers to share their experiences of intellectual property infringement to help support its submission to the government’s review of design law. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Sports brand Puma has unveiled its Puma Fi trainers, which have laces that can be tightened at the swipe of a finger. Read more

Dezeen Wire: The Telegraph has confirmed that UK magazine Design Week is to close, as reported by Dezeen earlier today. New Media Age magazine will also close, although the websites of both titles will continue. Dezeen understands that Design Week editor Lynda Relph-Knight and most of her editorial team have been made redundant. Read The Telegraph’s story | Read our earlier story </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Senegalese-American singer Akon says he has signed an agreement with the government of Senegal to build a city with a cryptocurrency-based economy named Akon City. Read more View the full article

A patchwork of yellow, green and white panels covers the erratically curving facade of a school in Finland by Linja Architects. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with BIG and Wilkinson Eyre, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Habitat, Hackett and more… (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this next movie from our series filmed at the OMA/Progress exhibition at the Barbican in London, OMA partner Reinier de Graaf talks about the Dutch architecture studio’s preoccupation with the hinterland created around expanding mega-cities. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Open-source furniture designs and 3D-printed signage are found throughout the Small House Big Door boutique hotel in Seoul, by local studio Design Methods (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Tactile sisal surfaces helped Master Studio foster an inviting atmosphere inside this pared-back coffee bar in Cape Town, South Africa. Read more

The drawers of this children’s dresser designed by Seattle product designer Peter Bristol are shaped to match their contents. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Alice Rawsthorn takes a look at the colour trends companies have forecast for this year and why they’re likely to be a self-fulfilling prophecy - New York Times </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

TTC Elite Saigon Kindergarten in Ho Chi Minh City by Kientruc O has a playful facade decorated with colourful patterns and irregularly shaped windows. Read more

The top floor rooms of this house in Japan by Tato Architects are contained inside sheds that sit on the roof (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Russian architect Peter Kostelov has slotted a timber structure into a two-storey apartment in Moscow to create two extra floors. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week on Dezeen: Chinese artist Ai Weiwei accused Lego of "censorship" this week after the Danish toy brand refused to supply building blocks for his installation and Mercedes-Benz showcased its new concept vehicle designed for "urban trendsetters" (pictured). (more…) View the full article

Self-driving cars should swerve to protect young people over the elderly and humans over animals, according to the Moral Machine survey of more than two million people, conducted by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Read more View the full article

Visitors enter this nursery in northeast France through a curving concrete orifice. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: in response to the growing number of freelancers looking for workspaces outside of their homes, London studio Aberrant Architecture have created pub tables that can be adapted into desks by day and games tables by night. (more…) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Aileen Sage Architects has installed a swimming pool inside Australia's Biennale pavilion to symbolise the importance of this type of public space to the nation's cultural identity (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

British designer Jasper Morrison has created a home for a fictional inhabitant inside the VitraHaus in Germany. Read more View the full article

Beijing Design Week 2011: Vienna architect Dejana Kabiljo has installed a giant sofa of bagged flour topped with fake chocolate icing at the 751-D Park for Beijing Design Week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article