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News: architects Rem Koolhaas and Foster + Partners will work alongside Hollywood power-couple Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin to create a new ocean-side cultural quarter at Miami Beach in Florida (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival: the family home of the future will feature mechanised floors and furniture that emerge from walls, floors and ceilings at the touch of a button, according to Yo! Sushi and Yotel founder Simon Woodroffe (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Areas of this plastic surgery centre in Tel Aviv look more like a minimal apartment than a medical office, thanks to teal and blush decor chosen by local designer Maayan Zusman. Read more View the full article

The third Chicago Architecture Biennial will forego a single theme in order push the architecture profession to "think more meaningfully" about a host of contemporary issues, according to artistic director Yesomi Umolu. Read more

Robotic construction company Apis Cor has used its technology to build the world's largest 3D-printed building, a two-storey office in Dubai. Read more View the full article

Celebrities attending the Met Gala not only misunderstood the concept of camp, but showed levels of waste that will lead to a backlash against displays of decadence, says Li Edelkoort. Read more

Opinion: three years ago Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs wrote an impassioned article complaining about the frustrations of visiting Milan during its annual design week. This year he found more to smile about. Here's his take on the 2016 fair. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the popular touch-screen Mutewatch is now available for just £149 (was £199) for a limited time only. (more...) View the full article

Movie: in the final video interview from our exclusive series, architect Moshe Safdie says that architects are too concerned with designing objects to create skyscrapers that work with the city. (more…) View the full article

Skyscrapers in Seoul: this week we’ve run a series of stories on the Yongsan International Business District, a new commercial hub in Seoul, South Korea, that’s due for completion in 2024. Commissioned by South Korean developer DreamHub, the new district has been masterplanned by architect Daniel Libeskind and will include skyscrapers by a host of international architects including Renzo Piano, BIG, MVRDV, REX, Dominique Perrault and Libeskind. Here’s a slideshow to bring them all together. (more…) View the full article

Chinese architecture studio LLLab has designed a hotel on the outskirts of Beijing as a village-style complex of buildings made from local brick and slate. Read more View the full article

The mass work-from-home experiment imposed on us by coronavirus could finally force companies to embrace remote working, says Tom Ravenscroft. Read more View the full article

A knot-shaped rooftop will be used as a vegetable garden at this kindergarten by Vo Trong Nghia Architects that's under construction in Dong Nai, Vietnam (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Design Indaba has asked 10 South African creatives to each select an object that challenges our perception of what defines beauty for a public competition. Read more

Design Miami/Basel 2015: London's Gallery Fumi presents metal-tube furniture by Max Lamb and patinated bronze tables by Glithero as part of its exhibition for this year's Design Miami/Basel fair (+ slideshow) (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Apple has opened a store inside the Santiago Calatrava-designed transport hub at New York's World Trade Center site. Read more View the full article

A trio of shipping containers has been converted into a weekend retreat set on stilts on a hillside overlooking Australia's Otway Coast by Melbourne practice Studio Edwards. Read more View the full article

Canadian firm Robitaille Curtis has completed a cabin in the Laurentian Mountains that sits atop wooden pilotis, enabling melting snow to flow under the home (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen and designer Dominic Wilcox have teamed up to give readers the chance to win one of five copies of his new book that features over one hundred drawings of his “odd yet strangely logical” inventions (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

New York industrial designer Lindsey Adelman's latest light comprises a series of glass orbs that appear to dangle precariously together on a gridded metal frame. Read more

Next up in our high-tech architecture series we look at the Centre Pompidou in Paris by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, the "inside-out" landmark that drew global attention to the movement. Read more View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a middleweight industrial designer at Industrial Facility, which created a modular seating system for US furniture brand Herman Miller (pictured). Read more stories about Industrial Facility or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

In the first of three exclusive video interviews with Dezeen for Virtual Design Festival, fashion designer Iris van Herpen explains how her training as a ballet dancer led her to pioneer the use of new technologies and materials in haute couture. Read more View the full article

US firm Koning Eizenberg Architecture left worn-looking ornate walls, brickwork and columns inside this museum for children in Pittsburgh, which occupies a historic library that was struck by lightning. Read more View the full article

This week we reported on bolts breaking at Richard Rogers' Leadenhall Building, the opening of One World Trade Center in New York (pictured), and the latest vaginal activity tracker. Read on for more architecture and design highlights, plus our regular music track of the week. (more...) View the full article