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Apple has teamed up with Ferrari, Volvo and Mercedes-Benz to develop software for cars allowing iPhones to be connected up and controlled via a second screen in the entertainment system. (more...) View the full article

The Croono makeup brush by Central Saint Martins graduate Taeheon Kim is an attempt to break down gender barriers by redefining masculinity through objects. Read more View the full article

An exhibition dedicated to the friendships and rivalries between designers has seen the likes of Philippe Malouin and Bethan Laura Wood come together to create collaborative pieces (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Shanghai studio Archi-Union used differently sized bricks to make waves across the exterior of this restaurant and members’ club at a cultural heritage park in Chengdu, China (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Industrial design duo SF-SO forgo homogenous touchscreens in favour of a sensory, analogue interface for products that offer users a respite from their online lives. Read more View the full article

The International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York was overshadowed this week by news that one designer had been arrested while installing his project in the city and accused of “planting false bombs”, which our readers labelled a “titanic over-reaction” and indicative of the “hysteria and squareness of NY authorities”. (more…) View the full article

Beirut design studio T Sakhi combined Venetian Murano glass with recycled metal threads and powder to create a pair of textured glassware collections. Read more View the full article

Agricultural barns were an inspiration for this holiday home in Pullenvale, Australia, designed by Paul Uhlmann Architects and featuring glazed gable-ends. Read more View the full article

Each apartment in this crisply detailed concrete and glass block in Mexico City features a full-width balcony lined with sliding glass doors. Read more View the full article

This week John McAslan + Partners unveiled the long-awaited remodelling of King’s Cross Station in London, PayPal launched a device for swiping credit cards to take payments on a smartphone, and readers wondered why the roof of the Enzo Ferrari Museum by Future Systems is yellow rather than red. A photographer’s studio over a boat house in Canada was our most popular story and we continued our Designed in Hackney showcase of design from our local area with work by David Adjaye, Jasper Morrison and Duggan Morris Architects, plus a cinema inside a canal boat. Over on Dezeen Screen you can watch two interviews that Dezeen filmed with Nike’s global creative director Andy …

Dutch firm Lagado Architects have designed a temporary public toilet block with wide open sections in the roof so users can sit on the toilet and look up into the sky (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: books and magazines slot inside the deep cross-shaped notch in this table by designer Philippe Nigro for Ligne Roset. (more...) View the full article

Designer Stephanie Bila used bent wood and crystals to create this body jewellery inspired by Japanese baskets for her Central Saint Martins graduate collection. (more…) View the full article

Danish architects BIG have unveiled proposals for a 150-metre-high skyscraper in downtown Vancouver. (more…) View the full article

Writer and Dezeen columnist Phineas Harper has become director of London-based charity Open City, which organises open house events in over 40 cities around the world. Read more View the full article

Slideshow: architects Cristian Panaite and Katrien Devreese have inserted a stark, geometric doctor’s surgery into a row of traditional brick houses in a quiet village in rural Belgium. (more…) View the full article

American car manufacturer Ford is developing lighting technology that can automatically detect pedestrians on dark roads and widen headlight beams at low-visibility junctions (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Dyson has created 44 engineering and science activities for children to try out while at home during the coronavirus pandemic, from making a balloon-powered car to building a bridge from spaghetti. Read more View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our first video report from Singapore, Colin Seah of local architecture studio Ministry of Design tells us how the recent cultural shift away from mass-market shops and restaurants is helping transform attitudes towards design in the city. (more...) View the full article

A digitalised fresco depicting soaring cherubs and angered Greek gods is the focal point of luxury fashion brand Dolce & Gabbana's latest store in Rome, which has been created by architecture studio Carbondale. Read more

This week last year designers BarberOsgerby were appointed to design the Torch for the London 2012 Olympic Games, while they later unveiled in June, a fashion designer and an architect showed a collection of 3d-printed clothing and a boulder-shaped mausoleum opened in Acapulco. Japanese architects Apollo completed two houses with pointy overhangs in Sendai, one black and one white, while in Denmark a physical shop opened where customers can buy digital fonts. A Dezeen commenter accused architects Ooze of raping an old house that they had wrapped with a faceted skin, and another thought an orange showroom building with gaping holes in its facade best resembled a chunk …

Green shingles cover the exterior of this octagonal, flatpack garden room in south west London, designed by Studio Ben Allen. Read more View the full article

For those who enjoy cafe culture, interiors reporter Natasha Levy picks out 10 eye-catching examples from cities around the world, from a Canadian coffee shop that doubles as an artists' workshop to a Vietnamese eatery with its own fish pond. Read more View the full article

Spanish architecture studio SelgasCano has unveiled its first commission in France – a vast pavilion of translucent waves that fills the courtyard of the Fondation d'entreprise Martell in Cognac. Read more View the full article

Order the new Dezeen Book of Ideas together with the London Design Guide by Max Fraser and pay just £20 for both books. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article