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This week we reported on MoMA's acquisition of a "4D-printed" dress, MAD's first European project (pictured) and 2015's AIA Gold Medal recipient. Read on for more architecture and design highlights, plus our regular track of the week. (more…) View the full article

Munich design studio Formstelle has created a subtly patterned lounge chair for iconic furniture brand Thonet. (more…) View the full article

Diagonal strips of timber clad this single-storey addition to a Hampstead apartment block, which also features a rooftop garden that can be used by neighbouring residents (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

We've created a new Pinterest board full of moving buildings that roll, spin, twist and hinge open, following the publication of Henning Larsen's Danish university facility with a climate-responsive kinetic facade. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more moving buildings View the full article

Prolific Japanese design studio Nendo has created slippers shaped like wizard's hats that can be stood up and stacked one on top of another. (more…) View the full article

Glasgow designer Fraser Ross has created a collection of seven conceptual human organs that would perform extra functions like squirting ink and spinning silk (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

This week's Dezeen Mail features Eurostar's redesign "disaster", a mile-high skyscraper proposal for Tokyo and an e-ink mobile phone designed to prevent users from acting like "mindless zombies" (pictured). Read Dezeen Mail issue 293 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Jean Nouvel has completed a tower with foliage bursting out of perforated walls and wide balconies, so we've added this and more verdant architecture to our Pinterest board dedicated to plants. It also includes Vo Trong Nghia's hotel with hanging gardens on its facades and a foliage-strewn house near Brussels by French botanical artist Patrick Blanc. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more plants in our archive View the full article

This week on Dezeen: the Dezeen team were in Milan this week to cover product launches, events and installations from the world's biggest and most important design fair. (more…) View the full article

Australian studio PHAB Architects has converted a former condensed-milk packing shed into an art gallery and workshop, without losing the building's industrial character and materiality (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Madrid firm Office for Strategic Spaces has used low-budget materials to transform an old industrial building in the Spanish capital into a multi-level workspace for creative startup businesses (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Florida-based studio Brillhart Architecture has completed a home fronted by slatted wooden shutters in a lush Miami forest (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Diller Scofidio + Renfro co-founder Elizabeth Diller has hit out at New York's spate of luxury skyscrapers, saying that the city is at risk of being "consumed by the dollar" (+ interview). (more…) View the full article

Technology company WobbleWorks has launched an updated edition of its hugely popular 3Doodler pen, which can now draw using materials like copper and wood composites (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

US set design studio Robert Storey has designed a plant-filled temporary retail space for online store Everlane in New York, influenced by the verdant conservatory at London's brutalist Barbican Estate (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

American imaging company Kodak is venturing into the smartphone market with a handset that puts photographic capabilities first. Read more View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for an architect at Hall McKnight in Belfast, whose projects include a house bridging a stream. Read more stories about Hall McKnight or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Architect Rem Koolhaas has expressed his excitement at building in Manhattan for the first time, in a movie created to promote his firm OMA's 121 E 22nd residential tower. Read more View the full article

The architects of Bulgarian office Another Studio removed walls from an apartment and replaced them with customised shelving systems to create themselves a personalised workspace. Read more View the full article

Rust-toned frames cover the facade of this extension to a central London home, which Gianni Botsford Architects designed to house its owner's private collection of photographs, prints and lithographs. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: an ideas competition has launched to design an outlet store for Santa Claus' leftover Christmas presents, and the winner will be offered a paid internship at Snøhetta's office in Norway. Read more View the full article

An underused public space in Veracruz, Mexico, has been given new life by Rozana Montiel and Alvin V Wallach, who built a canopy over the plaza to protect it from the elements. Read more View the full article

Pastel-coloured walls, industrial finishes and sliding furniture create a playful atmosphere inside this office for a Tokyo-based record label by Schemata Architects. Read more View the full article

Pentagram's Austin studio has included an "art deco-style" letter S in this new identity for an art museum in Nashville, Tennessee, taking cues from the 1930s building it occupies. Read more View the full article

The bulbous black base of this table, which Bandido Studio is launching at this year's Design Week Mexico, is sculpted using a traditional technique developed by the country's stone artisans. Read more View the full article