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Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our next movie from Design Indaba in Cape Town, designer Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg discusses synthetic biology - a new field of science that could see designers creating artificial lifeforms. (more...) View the full article

Vello is showing three of its folding bicycles at Virtual Design Festival's products fair, including Vello Bike+, which is "the first bike to combine electric, self-charging and folding features" according to the Austrian brand. Read more View the full article

Innovationen Tower, a 125-metre high tower formed of stacked precast concrete modules, has completed as part of an OMA-designed housing development in Stockholm. Read more View the full article

This multimedia library in Anzin, France, by Strasbourg architects Dominique Coulon & Associés is wrapped in overlapping slices of concrete. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch architecture studio GAAGA have completed this house in Leiden, the Netherlands, with a roof that pitches inwards to create a v-shaped profile. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Following our story on a wooden skyscraper proposed for Stockholm this week, here's a series of timber architecture from Dezeen's archive. See all wooden buildings » See all our archive stories » 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

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Fornasetti founder Piero Fornasetti (above). With a new wallpaper collection for Cole & Son coming out this month, we met up with Piero's son, Barnaba Fornasetti (below), who told us the story behind the eccentric Italian design house that he now heads (+ interview + slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the U.N. World Intellectual Property Agency has reported a rise in the amount paid as royalties and licensing fees from $2.8 billion to $180 billion in the last 40 years, representing a 60-fold increase – The Washington Post The report shows that high income countries such as France, Germany, Japan, Britain and the United States continue to lead the way in research and development but that China’s share in the global market has risen from 2.2 percent in 1993 to 12.8 per cent in 2009. Last week we reported on measures being taken by the UK government to improve intellectual property laws, designer James Dyson also raised the issue when he accused a Chinese…

Dezeen Wire: New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff is to leave the paper, following seven years in the role - Architects’ Newspaper </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: London’s Barbican Art Gallery will broadcast a live stream of a debate featuring all seven partners of architecture practice OMA in public conversation for the first time ever at 7pm this evening. The discussion will be chaired by Tate Modern director Chris Dercon. Click here to watch it via the Barbican’s Facebook page. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes fashionable fundraisers, a citywide open-air bar and a prediction for the end of the pandemic. Read more View the full article

Spanish studio Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos have completed a road-side restaurant and event space on a motorway junction near Zaragoza, Spain. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Revellers at this year's Coachella festival in California can visit a silent disco inside a dome of colour-changing balls by Spanish designer Héctor Serrano (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week we reported on rumours that Apple is designing an electric car, the 76 nominees for Designs of the Year 2015 and a garden folly "dedicated to smoking" (pictured). Read on to catch up with the latest architecture, interiors and design news, plus our track of the week. (more…) View the full article

Here some photos of the new Palo Alto offices of internet services company AOL, designed by San Francisco designers Studio O+A. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: design critic Justin McGuirk says that a kitchen concept by Dutch electrical company Philips that uses decomposition to generate methane gas for cooking is an example of how we may “have to get more comfortable with bacteria and with putrefaction’s role in our ecosystem” – The Guardian McGuirk claims the Microbial kitchen concept‘s “steampunk” aesthetic offers “an alternative vision to the clinical kitchen,” and also mentions the trend for low-tech kitchen appliances, such as designer Christoph Thetard’s pedal-powered devices, which he says represent a reaction to the impending energy crisis. Last year Dezeen published a report on Food and Design, includi…

Dezeen Wire: the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and the Design Council have expressed support for a new housing strategy announced by the UK government that aims to deliver high quality homes rather than a higher volume of poor standard properties. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Space: young Croatian designer Mirna Kerr presents her jewellery made of bulldog clips, cable ties and plumbing components at Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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

Foreign Office Architects have completed the new tile-covered campus for Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication, located on the Greenwich Peninsula in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

At the touch of a button, the chunky marble walls that surround this house in India divide up into spinning and sliding panels, revealing a more lightweight glass facade behind (photos by Edmund Sumner + slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Aaron Betsky has resigned as president of Frank Lloyd Wright's School of Architecture at Taliesin and will become the director of Virginia Tech's School of Architecture + Design. Read 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

Coming to London for our Dezeen Day conference and the Dezeen Awards party on 30 October? To help you make the most of your trip, here's a guide to the best shows in town. Read more View the full article