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Foster + Partners drew inspiration from Bedouin tents to create a canopy of domes over a new airport terminal that opened yesterday in Amman, Jordan (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Fashion designer and 3D printing pioneer Iris van Herpen tells us how printing and scanning technologies could transform the fashion industry in an exclusive interview for our print-on-demand publication Print Shift (+ transcript). (more...) View the full article

This week a museum housing sixteenth century Tudor warship the Mary Rose opened, proposals for transforming New York's Penn station went head-to head and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art expansion broke ground. Scroll on for more highlights and Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our final movie with Fabio Novembre in Milan, the architect and designer takes us to a new development in the Porta Nuova district of the city and explains why the project is so unusual in Italy. (more...) View the full article

Shoppers are encouraged to get hot under the collar while perusing the erotic products on offer at this Munich sex shop, with a curvaceous interior by New York designer Karim Rashid (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A row of raw concrete gables give a zig-zagging profile to this summer house by Swedish studio Tham & Videgård Arkitekter on an island in the Stockholm archipelago (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Small attic spaces are tucked between the ribs of a triangular roof at this house extension in Japan by mA-style Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Brains Unlimited is the name of this recently completed trio of buildings, which provides a neuroscience research facility for Maastricht University in the Netherlands (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Lithuanian studio Inblum Architects has inserted a bar into the attic of an old house in Minsk, Belarus (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New York-based Israeli designer Ron Gilad has added a modular shelving system and an oval table to his TT furniture collection, which features surfaces that appear to hover unsupported within a metal frame. (more...) View the full article

New York architect Steven Holl has released two movies about the Sifang Art Museum in Nanjing, China, a building designed to recreate the "parallel perspectives" that are characteristic of Chinese landscape paintings. (more...) View the full article

News: "An architecture challenge doesn't come much better than this," says David Chipperfield, who has been named winner in the competition to design a new home for the Nobel Prize in Stockholm (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Brazilian duo Tiago Volpato and Gabriel F have created a series of products for young designers who "feel lost" in the industry, including a coffee table that spins in circles. (more...) View the full article

News: the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in London has announced 56 winners of this year's RIBA Awards, including John McAslan's revamped Kings Cross station, Zaha Hadid's Olympic aquatics centre, and BIG's underground maritime museum (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Lithuanian studio Inblum Architects has divided the Vilnius offices for IT company Wix into two working zones, adding bespoke furniture to create meeting rooms and breakout spaces (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Music: directors Harry Israelson & Harry Schleiff enlisted the help of a yellow inflatable man called "Mr Wiggles" to make this music video for Les Sins' dance track Bother. (more...) View the full article

Interview: neglected techniques represent a new set of opportunities says Sebastian Cox, one of a number of young designers that are championing the revival of traditional crafts in the UK. (more...) View the full article

Eight glass-walled gardens offer views of greenery to the occupants of this minimally furnished house in Cuernavaca, Mexico, by architecture firm Goko (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Curved wooden benches and stools "grow" from a gridded floor of dyed timber installed in the sculpture gallery at English stately home Chatsworth House. (more…)

This year's RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist, modular sex toys and a proposal to elevate airport runways among Stockholm's rooftops (pictured) feature in Dezeen Mail issue 262. There's also the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 262 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Graduate shows 2015: University of Westminster graduate Freddie Jackson has designed a tidal barrage that can produce energy from the sea, but also incorporates a community of 20,000 new homes. (more…) View the full article

Amanda Levete's firm has revealed its design for a Maggie's Centre for cancer care in Southampton, England, set at the centre of a tranquil flower garden. (more…) View the full article

Kubo Tsushima Architects gave a curved form to this public toilet in Japanese town of Nakanojo, to avoid creating spaces for dust to collect or spiders to lurk (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

BIG founder Bjarke Ingels says he is "honestly impressed" by young job applicant Étienne Duval, whose covering letter is an animated rap that has become a YouTube sensation (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Chinese designer Chengxu Tian's Layering Movement collection of footwear features textured, stripy patterns created by injection moulding (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article