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In the second part of our VDF collaboration with film-makers Laura Mark and Jim Stephenson, we screen the first episode of the duo's Practice series, in which architect Piers Taylor of Invisible Studio explains why he built his own house in the woods. Read more View the full article

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, co-founders of Grafton Architects, are the first all-woman pair to be awarded the 2020 RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture. Read more

Straight lines and geometric symbols feature inside and out this longliner tuna fishing ship, which Nendo designed to relieve the mental and physical stress imposed on its crew when out at sea. Read more View the full article

Google has made a push for Apple's significant share of the smartphone market with the launch of its self-branded Pixel and Pixel XL (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

News: spectacle-wearing tech fans will soon be able to use Google Glass for the first time after the tech giant today unveiled four designs for frames to hold prescription lenses (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Luxury lifestyle brand Equinox has partnered with workspace provider Industrious to create a flexible co-working space in New York's Hudson Yards. Read more View the full article

A three-metre-high pivoting glass door protrudes from the sloping roof of this London house extension, which is clad in fibre-cement panels to match a refurbished dormer window (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Stockholm design agency Afteroom has created a coat hook, lounge chair and bar stool for Danish design brand Menu's Autumn Winter 2014 collection. (more...) View the full article

Researchers at the Clinatec laboratory in Grenoble have created an exoskeleton, which paralysed users can control with their mind in order to help them move both their arms and legs. Read more

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with us at Dezeen, Hopkins Architects and Sugru, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with David Chipperfield Architects, Marcel Wanders and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Singaporean studio LOOK Architects has created a landscaped park and promenade overlooking a beach in north-east Singapore where 400 Chinese civilians were murdered during World War II (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: a new generation of 3D printing pens will "improve the creativity of everybody" and "give the world a new way to communicate," according to the designer of the Lix pen, which launched on Kickstarter this week and has already raised over £400,000 (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Architectural elements based on wine bottles and barrels create a contemporary vaulted ceiling in this wine shop in Valladolid, northwest Spain by Zooco Estudio. Read more View the full article

A Back to the Future-style hoverboard (pictured), Kengo Kuma's first public commission in America and 11 lost icons of Postmodern architecture feature in Dezeen Mail issue 265. There's also the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 265 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

French designer Patrick Norguet has designed a reusable cup for McDonald’s that makes scalding hot coffee easier to hold. (more…) View the full article

Zaha Hadid has completed her second major project for Chinese developer Soho China – a trio of curved towers designed to look like giant pebbles (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Huge window bays project from the fat cylindrical volume of this apartment block in Tilburg, the Netherlands, by Dutch architects Bedaux de Brouwer. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French practice Avenier Cornejo Architectes has completed a social housing block in Paris with a brickwork facade with a pattern of blue glass bricks. Read more View the full article

Boston architect Eric Höweler has helped local doctors develop patient isolation hoods – a new type of device that could save the lives of healthcare workers and "impact things worldwide" in the fight against coronavirus. Read more View the full article

London Design Festival 2016: skeletons and three-dimensional patterns feature in Studio Job's new parquet, the first wood products to be released by Italian mosaic brand Bisazza (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: a Ferrari automotive museum designed by the late Czech architect and Future Systems founder Jan Kaplický has opened in Modena, Italy. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: The Layout sofa, created by Numen/For Use for the Croatian furniture brand Prostoria, creates a soft landscape of interconnected islands. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the Royal Institute of British Architects has published two new guides aimed at encouraging architects to help improve local communities through urban planning and cooperation with residents. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A clay-based black paint forms a protective layer across the facade of this woodland cabin in Finland, designed by Playa Architects as the second home for a Finnish family living abroad (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Angled white walls will mark the entrance to underground contemplation spaces at Herzog & de Meuron's roadside Autobahnkirche chapel in Switzerland. Read more View the full article