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This week's Dezeen Mail features a yin-and-yang-shaped Panda House designed by BIG and conceptual plans to suspend the world's tallest skyscraper from an asteroid. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail› View the full article

Milan 2012: new Italian brand Discipline launch their inaugural collection in Milan this week. (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen, Brexit causes uncertainty for designers ahead of Milan design week and sextech startups give vibrators a minimalist makeover. Read more

Designer Daan Roosegaarde has memorialised the 104,000 victims of the Holocaust in the Netherlands with individual stones in an interactive sculpture titled Levenslicht. Read more View the full article

This week on Dezeen, Bjarke Ingels' firm revealed designs for another new Google campus in California, while Apple's plans for a new store in a Melbourne sparked outrage. Read more View the full article

The Object is Absent is a multi-strand installation that focuses on the designers' bodies rather than the objects they create, to demonstrate a shift in the priorities for the next generation of makers. Read more View the full article

Milan 2015: advances in lighting and battery technologies mean that lighting cables could disappear within a few years, according to designer Philippe Starck and Piero Gandini, CEO of lighting brand Flos (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen has been shortlisted for seven awards at three different awards programmes for excellence in journalism, publishing and live events. Read more

News: Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled images of a 40-storey hotel with an exposed exoskeleton that is under construction in Macau, China (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Patrik Schumacher and Harriet Harriss clashed over architecture's long-hours culture at the Dezeen Day conference in October. The movie of the discussion shows Schumacher arguing that protecting students from working too hard would lead to "a kind of socialist world of stagnation". Read more View the full article

A rescued stone colonnade stands amongst planes of concrete at this religious shrine in the Spanish countryside by Pamplona studio Otxotorena Arquitectos (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Indian graphic designer Shiva Nallaperumal has developed a versatile neo-grotesque typeface family that includes nine Indic scripts alongside Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian and Latin versions. Read more View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a Swedish-speaking project architect at the Stockholm office of Danish firm 3XN, which recently unveiled plans for an aquatics centre in Linköping. More › View the full article

Health technology company Withings has unveiled a thermometer that uses non-invasive methods to take children's temperatures (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

American firm Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects has refurbished a round, mid-century dwelling that rotates 360 degrees and has created a pool house that doubles as guest quarters. Read more View the full article

Product news: the covers of these sofas by Italian industrial designer Giulio Iacchetti look like they're made of crumpled paper (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Spanish architect Marc Mogas created this prefabricated cottage in Spain's Pyrenees mountains as a cost-effective summer retreat. Read more View the full article

Slideshow: this small twisted tower is one of the six artists’ studios that Saunders Architecture of Norway are constructing on Fogo Island off the coast of Canada. (more…) View the full article

Freedom of Creation co-founder and 3D Systems creative director Janne Kyttanen tells Dezeen that he believes one day everyone will have easy access to 3D printing in the first of our series of video interviews with pioneering figures in the world of additive manufacturing. (more...) View the full article

The Japanese House exhibition at London's Barbican doesn't offer solutions to the housing crisis, says Owen Hatherley, but it does show what's possible when architects respond to extreme change and instability. 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

Bi-national studio 1100 Architect has renovated a cottage in New York beach town the Hamptons to create spaces where "old and new are impossible to distinguish from each other". Read more View the full article

Dezeen archive: we've built up a collection of projects that use bricks in interesting ways for our latest look back at the Dezeen archive. See more bricks in architecture and design » See all our archive stories » View the full article

This coffee table by Chilean studio Elemento Diseño is made of a single sheet of plywood, with the legs cut out from its corners. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Comments update: Tony Ash, managing director of furniture brand Vitra, says designers need protecting from copycats – but readers aren't sure that cheap rip-offs are the design industry's biggest problem. (more…) View the full article