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Samsung has brought the early noughties flip phone into the 21st century with its Galaxy Z Flip smartphone, which has a 6.7-inch flexible glass display that folds down to fit in the palm of your hand. Read more View the full article

News: London's V&A Museum has added the world's first 3D-printed gun to its permanent collection and will exhibit it along with four other newly acquired design objects during the London Design Festival. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen has teamed up with publisher Prestel to give away five copies of a book about London's brutalist architecture, featuring nine pull-out 3D models. Read more View the full article

Today marks 50 days to go until the final Dezeen Awards 2019 entry deadline. Read on for more vital numbers relating to Dezeen Awards! Read more

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

Zaha Hadid Architects has begun work on a multipurpose complex in Guangzhou, which is modelled on the looping infinity symbol used in mathematics. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: architecture critics have been offering their thoughts on Daniel Libeskind’s divisive Military History Museum in Dresden, which opened earlier this month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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…

Following the popularity of the bookcase without shelves that we published earlier this week (above, top right) here’s a roundup of the ten most-clicked stories from Dezeen featuring more clever ways to display your reading material. (more…) View the full article

Nut-coloured walls and bronze mirrors feature in the two-tone Buddy Buddy cafe in Brussels, which serves up speciality coffee and nut butters that are made on site. Read more View the full article

A United Nations report has found that Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, and other female-voiced digital assistants "reinforce commonly held gender biases". Read more

Snøhetta celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. In the first part of an exclusive interview with Dezeen, co-founder Kjetil Trædal Thorsen explains that the firm's ultimate aim has always been to make buildings for the betterment of society. Read more View the full article

This week we reported on the production of Ikea's flat-pack refugee shelters, the design of this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (pictured) and plans for Europe's tallest skyscraper in the Alps. Read on to catch up with the latest architecture and design news, plus our track of the week. (more…)

News: analysing trends and listening to what consumers want will ultimately result in bad design, says Spanish designer Jaime Hayon. (more...) View the full article

In this previously unpublished movie filmed by Dezeen, Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola explains why she rejected the "very masculine" style of kitchen showrooms to design a retail space for kitchen appliance brand Scholtès. (more...) View the full article

This exclusive movie documents the installation of giant video screens that played footage from shark thriller Jaws during Calvin Klein's Spring 2019 show, as part of New York Fashion Week. Read more View the full article

News: Guardian architecture critic Oliver Wainwright has added his voice to calls for an overhaul of the UK architectural education system, accusing it of being out of date and sealed off from the realities of working in the industry. (more...) View the full article

SoomeenHahm Design, Igor Pantic and Fologram have built a twisting pavilion for the 2019 Tallinn Architecture Biennial using augmented reality and old-fashioned woodworking. Read more

Three white-brick chimneys rise from this house in Virginia, which US studio T W Ryan Architecture designed to reference a modernist Mies van der Rohe house and a nearby plantation. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: a wabi-sabi-inspired hotel in a remote Chinese village and a luxury yacht that sails the seas of Indonesia are among the projects to be celebrated in the 2020 edition of the AHEAD Asia awards. Read more View the full article

Exposed brickwork, vaulted ceilings and terracotta floor tiles feature throughout this renovated Barcelona apartment by Spanish architecture studio CRÜ. Read more

Two guest suites in the grounds of a ruined Victorian house in Kent are separated by a walkway cast from concrete set against rough planks of wood. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week's Dezeen Mail features highlights from the past seven days, including photo-realistic renderings depicting a house made from a cluster of shipping containers in the Californian desert. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail › View the full article

Cristiano Bianchi and Kristina Drapić have photographed architecture across the capital of North Korea for their book Model City Pyongyang. Here they reveal six of the most interesting buildings in the city. Read more View the full article

Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Sooji Lee has created a hand-operated machine that painstakingly rewrites the Bodoni typeface in lowercase. Read more View the full article