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Interview: ahead of the opening of a permanent exhibition of David Mellor's street furniture, the British designer's son Corin talks to Dezeen about cataloguing an important moment in British design and how his father approached designing traffic lights and cutlery in the same way (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2013: concave bookcases and furniture with hotdog-shaped legs feature in the first collection by Joined + Jointed, currently on show at designjunction (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Design studio Weiss-Heiten used emerald-coloured tiles to cover the walls, floors and surfaces of the new Berlin store for skincare brand Aesop (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The translucent polycarbonate walls of this house in Hiroshima by Japanese architects Suppose Design Office allow natural light to flood the interior from all sides (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

One of the suites at this year's Icehotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden, features blocks of ice carved into the shape of Parisian rooftops and chimney pots by French designers Les Ateliers de Germaine (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Faceted concrete staircases connect a string of social spaces inside this SOM-designed campus building for The New School in New York, visible outside the building through huge diagonal windows (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a product designer at Samsung Design Europe. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

News: the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and architect Raymond Moriyama have launched a $100,000 award to rival the Pritzker and Stirling Prizes, which will be awarded every two years through an open competition. (more...) View the full article

Slatted timber shutters fold back to reveal the boxy first-floor balcony of this family house in Portugal, designed by E348 Arquitectura to adapt to the changing climate (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: visitors can examine soapstone carvings and peer through narrow peepholes inside Canada's biennale pavilion, which focusses on architecture's role in the Innuit communities of Nunavut – the country's youngest and most northerly territory. (more...) View the full article

Architecture firm Dash Marshall has converted a former pencil factory into a shared workspace for Brooklyn's creative entrepreneurs (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The seven-storey Trinity Square car park in Gateshead, England, was designed by Owen Luder and is the first ill-fated building in our Brutalism series (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2014: Eindhoven designer Joost van Bleiswijk has collaged together found objects and old machine parts to make this range of furniture and lighting. (more...) View the full article

News: graduate designs for an industrial landscape overlaid with scenes from Winnie-the-Pooh and a bathhouse set into a volcanic quarry are the big winners at the RIBA President's Medals Student Awards this evening. (more…) View the full article

News: Italian design school Domus Academy has recruited leading creatives – including Patricia Urquiola, Joseph Grima, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Alice Rawsthorn – to form a panel that will help the school "revolutionise" its teaching (+ interview). (more…) View the full article

News: a new smartwatch from Pebble that promises seven days of battery life has reached its $500,000 Kickstarter goal in less than 20 minutes. (more…) View the full article

New York design agency Sagmeister & Walsh has created an animated visual identity for cloud software management brand Fugue that responds to touch and sound (+ movie). (more…)

South Korean studio Z Lab has renovated a 100-year-old farmhouse on Jeju island, and renamed it Blind Whale in reference to the curves of its two smooth grey roofs (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Traditional Japanese interiors and natural landscapes influenced the design of this apartment in Moscow, which was recently renovated by local studio M17 (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the minimal Seconds watch is the first design from Nocs Atelier, a new company launched by Swedish audio brand Nocs. (more…) View the full article

Italian artist Edoardo Tresoldi has used wire to recreate an early Christian church on an archaeological site in Siponto, a port town in southern Italy (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Researchers and students from the University of Stuttgart employed robots to mould and stitch together this laminated plywood pavilion, which is based on the anatomy of a sea urchin (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Yves Behar has partnered with San Francisco startup Juicero to design a Wi-Fi-enabled home juicer that uses pre-packaged sachets of fruit and vegetables (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Graduate shows 2016: a gridded megastructure contains a creative workforce of 1,400 in this proposal by Royal College of Art graduate Ohyun Kwon to address the housing crisis in the South Korean capital. (more…) View the full article

A former theatre in Mexico City has been restored and reconfigured by Bandada Studio into an interactive museum that displays a giant model of the metropolis (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article