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News: architect and Pritzker Prize laureate Hans Hollein has died in Vienna at the age of 80 after a long illness. (more...) View the full article

Movie: Thomas Heatherwick talks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about his top-secret design for the cauldron that will hold the London 2012 Olympic flame in this interview filmed at his ongoing exhibition at the V&A museum in London. (more…) View the full article

Swedish design studio Form Us With Love has created a range of affordable, minimal chairs based on a single wooden shell for French furniture brand Alki. Read more

Designer Daan Roosegaarde is the latest creative to collaborate with Carlo Ratti's Scribit project, creating a robot-drawn illustration based on his ongoing research into space waste. Read more

East London designer Hugo Passos talks about making his modernist Piet side table without machinery in an “old artisanal way” in this movie filmed by Dezeen. (more…) View the full article

Smell is the most persuasive sense, according to Canadian designers Studio NminusOne, which explains why they’ve designed a mannequin that makes clothes smell of the person looking at them (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A house by Studio Puisto in Finland, sits between a lake and a dense spruce forest and is clad in black-oiled wood and topped by sloping zinc roofs. Read more View the full article

Continuing our coverage of the recent explosion of tech company headquarters in San Francisco, here's a look inside the offices of online property rental service Airbnb, which feature rooms modelled on eight of the company's listed apartments (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

With stone-clad walls and a deep red atrium, this medical centre in Kuwait was designed by AGi architects to look more like a cultural building than a health facility (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Penny rounds cover surfaces and perforated metal forms partitions at this pizzeria in New York's Lower East Side, designed by Jordana Maisie. Read more View the full article

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Studio Piet Boon, Robert AM Stern Architects and Studio TILT, who designed the Proud Archivist restaurant opposite Dezeen's new London office. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Peter Schmidt Group, Helen Green Design, ACME Architects and more... (more…) View the full article

White scaffolding supported raised plywood floor sections and formed clothing rails at this pop-up boutique in Berlin by Polish studio Kontent (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Soho House has opened its first Asian outpost in Mumbai, India, featuring pattern-heavy interiors inspired by regional textiles and crafts. Read more

We've selected four exciting positions for graphic designers on Dezeen Jobs this week, including vacancies at The Modern House and Carlo Ratti Associati. Read more

Dezeen Watch Store: Italian designer Alessio Romano's latest watch for Projects is based on Japanese ideas of simplicity, with a stripped-back monochrome design. (more…) View the full article

Dutch designer Aldo Bakker has curated an exhibition at Gallery Libby Sellers in London that presents his products alongside complimentary pieces from the gallery's inventory. (more...) View the full article

Architect Jamie Fobert combined pale brick walls with a sunken concrete floor and bronze embellishments to create this south-west London home – one of six projects shortlisted to receive the RIBA Manser Medal for best house of 2014 (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch firm Studioninedots has renovated a 1970s office building in the Dutch city of Hilversum, removing sections of the existing walls and floors to create a four-storey void crisscrossed by steel staircases (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

One ring rules an entire augmented-reality interface in this project by Royal College of Art graduate Nat Martin. Read more View the full article

French designer Loïc Bard has crafted a set of wooden furniture and matching tableware, all with rounded edges "inspired by the sense of touch and the human body". Read more

A hidden corridor beneath a grass hill links the metal-clad volumes of this house and cooking school near in the Netherlands by architecture firm Mecanoo. Read more View the full article

Architect Elizabeth Diller has praised her inclusion on this year's Time 100 list as a positive step towards gender parity in architecture, but voiced concern that too many female architecture students are not making it into the workplace. Read more View the full article

Portuguese studio DNSJ.arq has completed a cluster of three white houses on the outskirts of a small town in southern Portugal (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

We've selected 10 of the most unusual and far-fetched proposals for Mars housing submitted as part of NASA's 3D Printed Habitat Challenge. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Mail issue 192 leads with Foster's skinny skyscraper in New York and a new Hollywood campus for arts school Emerson College (pictured), plus includes the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 192 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article