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Dezeen promotion: architects and designers have until the end of February to submit their entries to this year's A' Design Awards. Read more View the full article

Construction is well underway on a 207-metre skyscraper by Zaha Hadid Architects in Beijing, which will feature a huge twisting atrium that is expected to be the world's tallest. Read more View the full article

Five projects are in the running for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2017, including a London housing scheme by Alison Brooks and a church building in Ribe by Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects that shelters 12th-century ruins. Read more View the full article

IKEA and Tom Dixon have revealed the results of their collaboration: a modular bed that "explores notions of adaptability and future-proofing". Read more View the full article

Nokia is rumoured to be relaunching its bestselling 3310 mobile phone as a cheap backup for smartphone users. Read more View the full article

Children can nestle into yellow alcoves and pull wooden furniture out of the walls at this school in Madrid by Rica Studio, which uses play to teach the English language. Read more View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a sustainable design advisor at Hawkins\Brown in London, whose remodel of the Bloomsbury building at the Bartlett School of Architecture features a staircase designed as a "social generator" (pictured). More › View the full article

Architectural photographer Fernando Guerra has captured Claesson Koivisto Rune's first collection for Swedish brand Dux at a vineyard in northern Portugal. Read more View the full article

A staircase connecting a series of split levels ascends through a void at the centre of this house in Jakarta, which features a cantilevered upper storey that projects over the entrance. Read more View the full article

American firm Studio MM Architect has created a modern holiday dwelling for a forested site in upstate New York, which features a giant front door and a garage for its car-lover owner. Read more View the full article

New York studio Tacklebox has clad the interior of this Washington DC store for skincare brand Aesop with 100-year-old recycled sticks. Read more View the full article

Architecture firm Tham & Videgård has turned a former Stockholm design college into a members club that aims to make creative professionals feel "a little spoiled". Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Dezeen has teamed up with design brand BD Barcelona to look back on some of its most successful products – the first being a table designed by Konstantin Grcic in 2009. Read more View the full article

Landscape architects McGregor Coxall has won a competition to design a wetland sanctuary in Tianjin, offering migrating birds a stopover to fatten up and breed. Read more View the full article

This movie by videographer Alejandro Villanueva captures the wave-like form of Lisbon's MAAT contemporary art museum, designed by Amanda Levete's firm AL_A, as light shifts from day to night. Read more View the full article

Humans will need to digitally enhance our brains if we are to remain relevant in a future filled with artificial intelligences, according to Tesla founder Elon Musk. Read more View the full article

Bjarke Ingels has been announced the winner of a competition to design a new headquarters and bottling plant for the soft drinks company San Pellegrino in northern Italy. Read more View the full article

Tokyo-based studio Do Do has used remnants of porcelain to update this ceramics shop and gallery in northwest Japan, and create a new pavilion for hosting workshops. Read more View the full article

Simon Astridge has used pigmented concrete to create the pink facade of this extension to a north London house, accenting the warm-toned colours found in the existing brick walls. Read more View the full article

A+Awards: Architizer A+Award-winning studio Crossboundaries has created a canyon through the middle of this production facility for a Chinese lingerie brand, which employees can enjoy on their breaks. Read more View the full article

Zaha Hadid's will reveals details of her multi-million-pound estate, of which former business partner Patrik Schumacher is the only non-family beneficiary. Read more View the full article

British designer Jasper Morrison has created a home for a fictional inhabitant inside the VitraHaus in Germany. Read more View the full article

A darkened brick tower and a glass volume form this extension by Gundry & Ducker, added to the rear of a north London residence to create a kitchen and living room with garden views. Read more View the full article

San Francisco startup Fellow has designed a connected kettle that lets users precisely and remotely control its temperature for optimum coffee brewing. Read more View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for an architectural designer at DUS Architects in Amsterdam, which recently built a 3D-printed micro home (pictured) and is also working on a 3D-printed canal house. More › View the full article