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This week The Shard was inaugurated in London, legendary Italian car designer Sergio Pininfarina died and new dean of architecture Alex de Rijke announced the end of “paper architecture” at the Royal College of Art. (more…) View the full article

The logo to support Los Angeles' 2024 Olympic bid features a multicoloured angel-like figure in reference to the city's name (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Paul Smith, COS and Virgin Atlantic, which has upper-class bar and cabin interiors designed by VW+BS (pictured). This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Foster + Partners, the Science Museum, David Kohn Architects and more... (more…) View the full article

An apartment in Tel Aviv with herringbone flooring went viral on our Pinterest channel this week, so we've chosen to count down our top 10 most-pinned homes with parquet detailing (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Space-saving oak furniture and white-washed walls feature in this minimalist apartment in Moscow renovated by architecture studio Ruetemple. Read more View the full article

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Philip Johnson was an impassioned supporter of Nazism, in which he found a "new international ideal", according to a new book by American journalist Marc Wortman. (more…) View the full article

The first flagship store for customisable furniture brand TOG in São Paulo is designed by local studio Triptyque as a social space for creatives, like a "21st-century Andy Warhol Factory" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Toy company Lego has reacted to the launch of Tesla's Cybertruck be sharing a picture of a car made from a single plastic brick. Read more View the full article

News: the Royal Institute of British Architects in London has announced 52 winners of this year's RIBA Awards, including a faceted auditorium in Alicante, a shimmering seaside gallery and a museum that mimics volcanic formations. (more...) View the full article

London designer Moritz Waldemeyer based this headgear for the lead singer of Jamiroquai on an endangered animal called the pangolin, creating scale-like sections that move and light up. Read more View the full article

Natural materials sourced from Iceland's volcanic landscape were used to make this piece of furniture by Reykjavík studio Innriinnri. Read more View the full article

The long-awaited Tottenham Hotspur Stadium has opened in north London, featuring a retractable pitch that can host both Premier League football matches and American football. Read more

The top floor of this former soviet telecommunications building in the centre of Moscow has been converted by studio Archiproba into an open plan office for a technology company (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Little Printer, the web-connected gadget we featured earlier this year that prints out personalised messages, news, birthdays and to-do lists collected from the internet on a till-roll, is now going into production. (more…) View the full article

Following the success of our digital map-based guides to London Design Festival 2012 and Milan Design Week 2013, we're creating an even better version for this year's LDF - so if you're exhibiting or organising an event and want to be included FREE, drop us a line! (more...) View the full article

Lighting brand Plumen has released a new LED light with a gold-coloured shade inside the bulb that "makes you look more beautiful" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London studio dRMM has completed a house and studio for Hackney artist Richard Woods, using his trademark cartoon-style print to add colour to the building's facade and staircase (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in the second part of our interview with Rachel Armstrong, the senior University of Greenwich lecturer explains how a synthetic "limestone-like" support structure could be grown underneath Venice to prevent the city's foundations being eroded. (more...) View the full article

Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a director position for the School of Design at San Francisco State University, where the Mashouf Performing Arts Center by Michael Maltzan Architecture (pictured) is located. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Space & Interiors will focus on the use of light in interior products for this year's event, which takes place during Milan design week. Read more View the full article

Troika founding partner Eva Rucki explains the studio's large-scale immersive light installations in this movie filmed by Dezeen at our Designed in Hackney Day. (more...) View the full article

Architecture projects from 68 different countries have been shortlisted for awards at this year's World Architecture Festival, including a concept for ever-expanding housing in Syria, a plant-covered hotel in Vietnam and a sprawling museum in Palestine. Read more View the full article

London architects Liddicoat & Goldhill added an extension to a south London home with an oak-screened staircase and double-height windows. (more…) View the full article

Today on Dezeen Music Project we’ve got another track that’s featured on our latest daily TV show from our studio at MOST, which you can watch here if you haven’t already. Antagonic Urban Cities by Ral is inspired by the different urban street music found in Puerto Rico and Barcelona. About Dezeen Music Project | More tracks | Submit your track View the full article

Visualisations of Google's new headquarters designed by BIG and Heatherwick, Li Edelkoort's predictions for the death of fashion and a coastal home in Portugal (pictured) feature in Dezeen Mail issue 243. Click through for all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 242 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article