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We've selected the most exciting roles on Dezeen Jobs this week, including vacancies at British studios Ström Architects and David Chipperfield Architects. Read more View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: with Cape Town serving as World Design Capital in 2014, we spoke to programme director Richard Perez about how the title can help the city overcome problems inherited from the Apartheid regime. (more...) View the full article

Students from Cambridge University have built an ultra-efficient electric car that drives using only as much power as it takes to boil a kettle. Read more View the full article

Furniture and product design students from The Cass have created pasta inspired by nipples, pocket squares and rose petals for restaurant chain Carluccio's. Read more View the full article

BIG has revealed plans to create an angular building that will be a "one-of-a-kind vertical village for film" in New York City's Queens borough. Read more

Almost everything is pristinely white inside this dental clinic in Sicily by architecture studio Bureauhub, from the walls and floors to furniture, equipment and staff uniforms (photos by Roland Halbe + slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: a British firm has unveiled the world's longest aircraft - a hybrid of airship, plane and helicopter that can stay airborne for up to three weeks. (more...) View the full article

The second edition of Madrid Design Festival saw a host of designers create exhibitions across the capital. We have rounded up five of our favourites, including a look at Spanish mid-century furniture brand Darro. Read more

Dezeen Watch Store is offering its newsletter subscribers exclusive Black Friday discounts to celebrate the busiest shopping weekend of the year. Read more View the full article

Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter has unveiled plans for a new agricultural and baking education centre in Denmark's Jutland region, which will feature teaching spaces skylit by a pair of kiln-shaped forms. Read more View the full article

The best new hotels in Europe combine rich experiences with a subtle approaches to design say the judges of this year's AHEAD Europe awards, in this video Dezeen produced for the awards programme. Read more View the full article

News: the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has named its top ten sustainable projects of the year, including a university building made from timber, concrete and Corten steel in Minnesota (above) and a series of prefabricated houses in Tennessee. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen broke the three biggest stories of the London Design Festival this week: the news that graphic designer Peter Saville won the London Design Medal and is working on a new visual identity for Kanye West; and the announcement that the V&A museum has acquired the first 3D-printed gun. Read on for more of this week's best bits... (more...) View the full article

Designer Francis Bitonti worked with students to design and 3D-print this delicate dress using clear and flexible filaments. (more...) View the full article

Danish architecture firm BIG has designed a 58-storey skyscraper for telecommunications company Telus in downtown Calgary, Canada. (more...) View the full article

Architecture practice Deltastudio has turned a former agricultural warehouse in Italy into a house with a balcony framed with white curtains. Read more View the full article

Opinion: instead of serving up "mundane and predictable" cliches, the world of luxury design should be tempting us with things we never knew we wanted, argues Sam Jacob in his latest column. (more...) View the full article

Bose has developed a version of its QuietComfort noise-cancelling headphones for cars, which promises to minimise unwanted sound inside the vehicle. Read more

From a trio of mirrors depicting Dubai's arid landscape to a set of sand-cast chairs by female artisans in Sharjah, Dezeen's Natashah Hitti has picked seven designs from Downtown Editions 2019 that celebrate regional traits. Read more View the full article

London Design Festival 2014: the daughter of British designers Robin and Lucienne Day talks to Dezeen about preserving her parents' legacy and the launch of a new version of her father's much replicated 675 Chair (+ interview + slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Designers, universities and industry events are taking their activities online as coronavirus forces the sector to consider replacing real-world interactions with virtual alternatives. Read more View the full article

Los Angeles duo the Haas Brothers have imagined this set of homeware as little "otherwordly" monsters roaming the arid California desert. Read more

The latest issue of our weekly newsletter leads with Herzog & de Meuron's east London skyscraper proposal and also includes the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 182 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

The latest set of images from photographer Marc Goodwin offers a look inside 17 prolific architects' studios in the Netherlands. Read more View the full article

Beijing Design Week: designer Arthur Huang used Nike shoe material to create a colourful web in a rusting gas tower during Beijing Design Week (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article