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Italian designer Piero Lissoni has paired a round-edged cube seat with a vertical rectangular back to create this upholstered chair for furniture brand Viccarbe. (more…) View the full article

Opinion: Manhattan's rash of skinny towers for the super rich is helping turn New York into an extreme work of art. It's a Capitalist Jerusalem made real, says Aaron Betsky. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the government must prioritise new models of affordable workspaces to ensure that London maintains its "global competitiveness" as a centre of commerce, according to a new report by New London Architecture. Read more View the full article

This week we started the year with news that Norman Foster has proposed a network of elevated cycle routes on top of London's railways. Read on for more architecture and design stories from the past seven days, plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

ÉCAL graduate Yesul Jang has designed a bed with storage capacity for millennials with limited space in urban dwellings. Read more View the full article

In his second video selection for Virtual Design Festival, Martin van der Linden explains the metabolist characteristics of Kenzo Tange's Kuwait Embassy, which the video blogger describes as one of his favourite buildings in Tokyo. Read more View the full article

Dyson has cancelled its plans to build an electric car, which was expected to launch next year, claiming the project is not "commercially viable". Read more

Five years ago this week the late Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple iPhone, and went on to sell over a hundred million of them. Following their competition win, we revealed new images of the OMA-designed Shenzhen Stock Exchange, which topped out in June last year, and Brazilian brothers the Campanas completed the interior of a Camper shoe store in Berlin. Marc Newson designed a set of children’s toys for furniture store Habitat, who have since closed all but three of their UK shops, and we featured a farmhouse-style restaurant and traditional bakery by British architects FAT, located next door to the remaining Tottenham Court Road branch of Habitat. See all our stories…

Japanese studio Hibinosekkei has added a small wooden playhouse to a kindergarten in the city of Saga to encourage independent domestic role play. Read more View the full article

Movie: Pritzker Prize-winning architect Toyo Ito tells Dezeen that, while his buildings vary in material and style, the key to all of them is their close relationship with the people that inhabit them. (more...) View the full article

Canadian architecture studio UUfie has inserted polycarbonate partitions into a medical clinic, part filling them with glass to create a hazy "horizon" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Norwegian architects Snøhetta have submitted plans for a Maggie’s Centre to provide cancer care facilities in Aberdeen, Scotland. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This desk by Dutch designer Mieke Meijer is the first in a range of furniture based on images by German artists Bernd and Hilla Becher, known for their series of photographs that documented types of industrial structures like pylons, gas tanks and water towers. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Sports brand Nike has unveiled limited-edition Air Max trainers by designers Marc Newson, Riccardo Tisci and Arthur Huang to celebrate the shoes' 30th anniversary. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the Dezeen x Samsung Ambient Mode design competition has been whittled down to a shortlist of five, who have shared the thinking behind their designs with Dezeen. Read more View the full article

BIG has completed an extension to the business school at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst with gradually sloping walls that resemble falling dominos. Read more

These leafy cable ties by Korean designers Lufdesign might be mistaken for plants. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

After a crisis that saw rubbish pile up in the streets of Beirut, local designers were inspired to use the waste around them as a resource. Here are eight recycled projects that showcase their ingenuity. Read more View the full article

Musician and fashion designer Pharrell Williams has designed a two-tower residential development for Toronto, Canada. Read more View the full article

Designer Yinka Ilori has won a competition to overhaul a "gloomy underpass" in south London, with a proposal featuring vibrant colours and bold patterns. Read more View the full article

Inside 2011: the hotels category award at the inaugural Inside awards in Barcelona goes to NHDRO for The Waterhouse at South Bund. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This teardrop shaped portable printer from Israeli studio Zuta Labs wirelessly prints documents from tablets, smartphones or desktop computers. (more...) View the full article

The overhaul of the brutalist Park Hill housing estate in Sheffield, England, is another of the six projects nominated for the 2013 Stirling Prize (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architect Liam Young will speak about how he uses film-making techniques to predict the future at Dezeen Day in London on 30 October. Read more

Comments update: the UK's housing crisis became the hot topic this week, as readers reacted to Phineas Harper's first Opinion column for Dezeen. (more…) View the full article