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Dezeenwire: the Kingkey Finance Tower by architects Farrells, the tallest tower in Shenzhen, China, topped out today. More details below. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

With activities kicking off in Miami for this year's art week, including Art Basel and Design Miami, we've selected the exhibitions and installations not-to-be missed, including an inflatable bubble gallery and a sand-covered traffic jam. Read more View the full article

Sports brand Nike has combined elements from its previous running and basketball footwear designs to create a "SneakerBoot" with a pleated sole and a neoprene cover. (more...) View the full article

Employees at web consultancy Netlife Research in Oslo can take a moment for contemplation inside one of three wooden rooms dedicated to silence. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

As automation places millions of us at risk of losing our jobs, now is the time to rethink how humans and robots will coexist on this planet, says designer Madeline Gannon in this Opinion column. Read more View the full article

A recessed balcony carves a rectangular hole in the facade of a writer’s house in north Hollywood. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Hopkins Architects has completed the Buhais Geology Park Interpretive Centre on a former prehistoric sea in the emirate of Sharjah, UAE. Read more View the full article

Comments update: could Google's modular smartphone prototype topple the market dominance of Apple's iPhone? (more…) View the full article

London designer Mathias Hahn’s Scantling lamps (see our earlier story) have been put into production with Barcelona brand Marset. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Five years ago this week OMA won a competition to design the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, which topped out in June last year. Klein Dytham Architecture completed their Moku Moku Yu baths in Japan’s Southern Alps, Tate Britain appointed Caruso St John Architects to modernise their Millbank gallery and we continued our coverage from Design Miami including pieces by Zaha Hadid, Bodo Sperlein and Studio Job. The one-month-old Dezeen was getting ready to celebrate it’s first Christmas and received a lovely Christmas card designed by Thomas Heatherwick. See all our stories from December 2006 » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img>…

Humans will be replaced by artificial intelligence at the centre of our future cities, curator and brand consultant Suzanne Livingston told Dezeen Day. Read more View the full article

Swedish DJ duo Dirtytwo will perform a live set to round off Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with Stockholm Design Week. Watch the broadcast live at 6:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Sports brand Nike have opened an east London store where shoppers can see themselves reflected on motion-sensitive LED walls. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Fashion brand Louis Vuitton has collaborated with Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama to create a collection of dotty garments featuring Kusama’s obsessional polka dot patterns for a concept store at Selfridges department store in London. (more…) View the full article

Swedish office Uglycute have completed a restaurant in Stockholm that features a bar made of hardboard panels edged in brass. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Coastal walkers in south-west England can now detour through a historic naval supply yard thanks to this dramatic staircase that cuts through formerly impregnable walls (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: London designer Héctor Serrano will present these reconfigurable wooden figures at 100% Design this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: Vello Bike is an ultra-light bicycle developed by Valentin Vodev, which can be folded into a portable size in seconds. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Screen: In this movie filmed in a warehouse on the outskirts of Eindhoven, the ringing of an alarm clock triggers a chain of events that opens umbrellas, spins paper windmills, starts a fire and releases a set of parachuting toy animals. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Frank Gehry's first completed building in Australia, Herzog & de Meuron's controversial skyscraper for Paris (pictured), and a folding electric bike that can be carried in a backpack feature in Dezeen Mail issue 229. Click through for all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 229 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Norwegian architects Snøhetta have unveiled their design for an extension to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), which will double the gallery’s exhibition and education spaces. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this latest interview from our series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief talks to Marcus Fairs talks to Colin Seah from Ministry of Design about the design of their own office, a former shophouse in Singapore where the rooms and the furniture within them are arranged in rows like a barcode. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

News: the world's first building to be powered entirely by algae is being piloted in Hamburg, Germany, by engineering firm Arup. (more...) View the full article

This multi-storey car park in Soissons, France, by Paris firm Jacques Ferrier Architectures has an undulating facade of vertical timbers. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London firm Universal Design Studio have completed the interior of a shop on London’s New Bond Street for fashion brand Mulberry. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article