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This university building in Melbourne by Australian architects Lyons is covered in brightly coloured scales (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our job of the week is a position in Hong Kong for a design manager at Starbucks Coffee Company, who in the past have commissioned well-known architects and designers such as Kengo Kuma and Nendo to design branches like this one in Japan (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse many other architecture and design job opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Swedish firm Note Design Studio devised a set of mobile metal trolleys to display shoes at this store for footwear brand Camper. (more...) View the full article

This rural residence outside Melbourne by architects Studio Four features a blackened timber exterior and terraces that step down a hill (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: twelve international firms including OMA, Herzog & de Meuron, BIG and SANAA have been shortlisted to design a new headquarters and visitor centre for the Nobel Prize in Stockholm, Sweden. (more...) View the full article

Six architecture studios present window installations created for stores along London's Regent Street in this movie filmed by Dezeen. (more...) View the full article

Opinion: instead of serving up "mundane and predictable" cliches, the world of luxury design should be tempting us with things we never knew we wanted, argues Sam Jacob in his latest column. (more...) View the full article

Last week we had a plaster cast made on a 3D printer and now here's a light made out of a plaster cast. (more...) View the full article

News: construction is now under way on a public square underneath Richard Seifert's iconic Centre Point tower in London, as part of a major redevelopment by Rick Mather Architects and Conran & Partners (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Small windows scattered across the facade of this house extension outside Melbourne by Australian practice Wolveridge Architects limit the amount of direct sunlight entering the building (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New York designer Francis Bitonti worked with students to 3D-print this dress using commercially available MakerBot machines (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

News: visitors to the museum at the Dessau campus of the Bauhaus can now spend the night in the dormitories of the former German Modernist design school (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

French studio Perraudin Architecture has completed a social housing complex with solid stone walls near Toulouse as part of a bid to prove that "anything that is built today could be built in stone" (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our first movie from Miami, Jacques Herzog of Herzog & de Meuron claims the Swiss architecture studio is trying to create a "new vernacular for Miami" that eschews sealed, air-conditioned buildings in favour of more "transparent or permeable" structures. (more...) View the full article

The first Dezeen Mail of 2014 features Norman Foster's "cycling utopia" and furniture that looks like line drawings (pictured), plus all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 184 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Stockholm 2014: Swedish-French design duo Färg & Blanche has created a small padded chair for Swedish furniture brand Gärsnäs. (more...) View the full article

News: this desk with a solar panel in the writing surface by Dutch designer Marjan van Aubel generates electricity to recharge gadgets using a process similar to photosynthesis. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: a series of talks will launch this afternoon in Nike's Aero-static dome at Palazzo Clerici, forming part of the FOMO algorithmic publishing project organised by Joseph Grima with Dezeen. (more...) View the full article

News: German studio J Mayer H has won a competition to design a shopping centre near Berlin's Alexanderplatz where shoppers will be able to indulge in skydiving or surfing. (more...) View the full article

News: Ikea has said it will rethink legal action against fan site IkeaHackers, which publishes user modifications of furniture bought from the flat-pack giant. (more...) View the full article

Italian designer Emanuele Pizzolorusso has designed a flexible flower pot that can double in capacity to accommodate plants as they grow and prevent the need for repotting (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: structural work has completed on the Museum of Biodiversity in Panama – the first building in Latin America designed by Frank Gehry – ahead of its official opening in October (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Paris design studio Appropriate Audiences has combined a 3D printer with a tattooist's needle to form an automated tattoo "printer" that can create indelible artworks on skin (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

News: work has begun on architect Moshe Safdie's Jewel Changi Airport, which aims to "reinvent what airports are all about" by creating a shared public space under a glass dome with a massive waterfall and garden at its centre. (more…) View the full article

A naturally filtered outdoor swimming pool is taking shape as part of the redevelopment of King's Cross in London. (more…)