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Zaha Hadid's controversial plans for the 2020 Olympic Stadium in Tokyo have been scrapped. (more…) View the full article

In April, Apple courted the design world by presenting the Apple Watch at a pavilion in Milan and holding a glamorous dinner for leading designers. So what do designers think of the product now – and why are so few of them wearing it? Dezeen investigates. (more…) View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a retail interior designer at Paul Smith, whose Albemarle Street store in London is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

The "world's lightest and most compact electric bike" has surpassed its crowdfunding goal in just two days. Check out all the bicycles we've featured on Dezeen, including a design that folds into a backpack and a bike with a frame made from cardboard. See all our stories about bicycles » View the full article

The glazed lower level of this house by Switzerland's Lake Biel are sandwiched between two concrete slabs, helping to protect living spaces and an outdoor terrace from flooding (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Interior designer Sarah Van Peteghem has added greyscale furnishings, fabrics and accessories sourced from both contemporary brands and antique stores to this minimal apartment in Berlin (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Shiny metal cladding and exposed ducting lend an industrial feel to this auditorium for a virtual-reality research centre in Portalegre, Portugal, by Eduardo Souto de Moura and Graça Correia (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Rotterdam studio ZUS has completed what they describe as the "world’s first crowdfunded public infrastructure project" - a 400-metre-long pedestrian bridge in their home city (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Opinion: the limitless prosperity once promised by urbanisation has failed to materialise, leaving rapidly growing inequality in its wake. It will take more than some clever technology to solve the problems with the world's biggest cities, says Reinier de Graaf. (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Graduate shows 2015: performances by the Cirque du Soleil theatre group could be viewed through openings in the curved form of this building proposed for New York by students from the University of Applied Arts Vienna. (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

This year's RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist, modular sex toys and a proposal to elevate airport runways among Stockholm's rooftops (pictured) feature in Dezeen Mail issue 262. There's also the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 262 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Graduate shows 2015: for those scared of injections, Royal College of Art graduate Celine Park has proposed a new immunisation technique: inhaling vaccines through fungus (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Shipping containers are often repurposed to create buildings, and this structure by Tel Aviv studio Potash Architects features one container balanced at a precarious angle (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Studio Echelman has used more than 100 miles of rope to create a sculpture that floats high above a Boston park (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Barber and Osgerby's creative consultancy Map and technology company SAM have designed a kit of "building blocks" aimed at simplifying the creation of internet-connected products (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

The Royal Institute of British Architects has revealed the six buildings competing for this year's Stirling Prize, including a Maggie's cancer-care centre in Scotland, London's NEO Bankside housing, and the expansion of Manchester's Whitworth Gallery (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Yves Behar has designed a connected thermostat for UK energy supplier British Gas aimed at ordinary consumers rather than technology lovers (+ movie). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Dezeen promotion: the winners of this year's AZ Awards for architecture and design include a house featuring a staircase of wooden boxes, and tiles made from the screens of old TV sets and computers (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Dutch studio Bloot Architecture has added a larch-clad roof extension to a 1950s summer house, featuring a glazed wall angled to frame views of the trees overhead (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

British inventor Clive Sinclair has launched a crowdfunding campaign to produce an electric version of his lightweight foldable A-Bike, with wheels that are just 13 centimetres in diameter (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Seattle architect Tom Kundig has designed a collection of over 100 hardware items including drawer pulls, door handles, fire pokers and shovels. He spoke to Dezeen about his "modifiable, morphable" and growing product range (+ transcript + slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

This week Bjarke Ingels unveiled plans to enliven Battersea Power Station with electric sparks (after designing a power plant that blows smoke rings) while Henning Larsen completed a building with a moving facade. Here's a reminder of all our stories about architecture that moves, including a building that flaps its wings like a giant insect and a house with rotating bedrooms. See all our stories about moving architecture » [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Hidden behind a bookcase in a secret room, a fireman's pole offers a fast escape route from the top floor of this Berlin home by local studio NOWlab (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

These three zinc-cloaked towers form a power plant on the roof of an old beer brewery in Sydney, which will supply energy to a new housing and shopping complex on the site below (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Henning Larsen Architects aimed to set a benchmark for green design with this university building in Kolding, Denmark, featuring a climate-responsive kinetic facade and a triangular form (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]