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This squishy light by German product designer Simon Frambach can be used as a warm, glowing pillow. (more...) View the full article

Competition: Nest.co.uk is giving Dezeen readers the chance to win a special-edition Fauteuil Direction chair by Modernist designer Jean Prouvé. (more...) View the full article

Opinion: journalist and critic Mimi Zeiger argues that trying to rewrite design history with all-female shows like MoMA's Designing Modern Women does nothing to "shake up the dominant masculine ethos" that still plagues the industry. (more...) View the full article

This concrete house in Tokyo was designed by Japanese firm Apollo Architects & Associates for a family that regularly accommodates foreign exchange students (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A Dublin-based graphic designer has developed a digital resource encouraging people to eat insects. (more...) View the full article

News: internet-connected cars will soon be harvesting data on the weather, road conditions and traffic flow and selling it to the grid, according to panelists at the Internet of Cars session at the SXSW festival. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Mail issue 197 includes our latest coverage of Milan 2014, Herzog & de Meuron's design for a hospital in Denmark and controversial plans for the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station, as well as the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 197 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Lengths of reclaimed timber envelop the grand staircase that Melbourne office March Studio has created at the entrance to Hotel Hotel in Canberra, Australia (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Exposed brickwork and ceilings, themed rooms and a dedicated recording studio feature in the headquarters of music streaming company Soundcloud, which have been created inside a former brewery in Berlin (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: architect Pernilla Ohrstedt's stand design for the Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition will visualise the 3D data driverless cars use to navigate, which she claims will gradually produce a "perfect" digital model of our cities. (more...) View the full article

This week we published architecture for cats, the latest news from London Design Festival 2014 and continued our series on Brutalist buildings. Read on for more architecture and design highlights from the past seven days. (more...) View the full article

Opinion: from Chicago's rat problem to transport startups like Bridj and Uber, data is being used to predict behaviour and manage our cities. But the idea of the "Predictive City" should be treated with a healthy dose of scepticism, argues Dan Hill. (more...) View the full article

The seventh entry in our A-Zdvent calendar is the Garden Egg chair by Hungarian designer Peter Ghyczy, which demonstrated new techniques for plastic production in the late 1960s. (more…) View the full article

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects stacked up boxy volumes with different dimensions and cladding finishes to create this library in Halifax, Canada (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The full facade of Japanese architect Tadao Ando's concrete and glass apartment block for Manhattan is revealed in this set of visualisations. (more…)

Graduate shows 2015: Bath School of Art and Design graduate Emma Buckley has coloured a range of decorative ceramic tableware by letting dye seep up through gaps in the glazing (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Swedish architect Andreas Martin-Löf has completed a weekend retreat for himself on a steep hill overlooking the Stockholm archipelago, with eye-level views of the surrounding tree canopy (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This house near Hamilton, Ontario, relies on a combination of fireplaces and straw walls to keep it warm, with a rooftop meadow adding to its green credentials (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architecture studio Hall McKnight has completed a house bridging a stream in Holywood, Northern Ireland, which also features a colonnade-like facade incorporating tall vertical windows (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Gillis Lundgren, who designed some of Ikea's most iconic products and was one of the furniture giant's first employees, has died at the age of 86. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2016: Atelier Biagetti invites people to take sanctuary from an over-sexualised world inside a surreal clinic featuring pastel pink furniture, clinical curtains and attendants in nurse's outfits (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Möhring Architekten clad this holiday home in rural Germany in black-painted wood to look like a traditional barn, but then cut windows out of the corners to give it a contemporary edge (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Canadian designer Philippe Malouin has added a small bowl to new 3D-printed homeware brand Othr's collection of items, as part of its chain of fortnightly product launches (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our latest Pinterest board collects together the most popular saunas from the pages of Dezeen, including a cavernous steam room built to emulate the form of a seaside grotto, an industrial-looking structure in Gothenburg and a wooden design that staggers up over Norway's rocky terrain. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more saunas on Dezeen View the full article

Japanese designer Yota Kakuda used a bespoke aluminium tile to cover the walls and floors in this shop that sells baked cheese tarts (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article