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Australian company Run4 has launched a piece of fitness equipment designed to prevent running injuries that works like a bicycle and cross-trainer hybrid (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Here is a selection of our favourite Christmas cards, movies and gifs we've received this year, including this tiny skier racing down a balustrade from London studio Nicholas Hare Architects. (more…) View the full article

The mirrored glass surface of this park pavilion in Edmonton, Canada, helps the structure merge with its surroundings during the day and glow from within at night (+ slideshow) (more…) View the full article

Amsterdam museum Looiersgracht 60 is hosting a solo exhibition of work by Dutch designer Aldo Bakker that consists of just five jugs. (more…) View the full article

Chocolate-patterned wall panelling and sofas shaped like Toblerones feature in Dutch designer Marcel Wanders' Swiss-inspired hotel in Zurich (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2015: Dutch furniture designer Piet Hein Eek has joined the debate about whether non-architects should design buildings, saying most architects are "not interested" in construction. (more…) View the full article

Korean design studios Cloudandco and 11+ have teamed up to release a minimal house-shaped scent diffuser (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London designer Michael Anastassiades has created a range of wine glasses that have to rest inside metal bowls in order to stand up. (more…) View the full article

Interview: designers are increasingly making films instead of products to get their ideas across, according to Studio Swine, which has won multiple awards for its movies (+ movies). (more…) View the full article

A retrospective of work by Finnish designer Eero Aarnio, a pioneer of high-quality plastic furniture and creator of some of the most iconic chairs of the 1960s, has opened at the Helsinki Design Museum. Dezeen spoke to the exhibition's curator about how Aarnio broke with the "traditional Bauhaus Nordic functional style" (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Golden boxes fronted by balconies make up the exterior of this student housing block in Paris by Hamonic+Masson & Associés, which also features a secret garden and nesting areas for birds (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our US job of the week on the new and improved Dezeen Jobs website is for an experienced project leader at Studio Link-Arc in New York, which designed the bamboo cladding for the roof of China's Milan Expo 2015 (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Dutch design studio Michiel Cornelissen Ontwerp has designed a chocolate printer that can produce intricate confectionary (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Canada-based architect Reza Aliabadi has completed a home made up of vastly different halves at a lakefront site on the outskirts of Toronto (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The tetrahedral New York apartment building designed by Bjarke Ingels Group is captured in these pictures by photographer Montse Zamorano (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival 2016: Canadian studio UUffie has embedded metal into the growth lines of wood to create a set of textured tables (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Reader reactions to a provocative visualisation of the border wall proposed by Donald Trump lead this week's comments update. Read more View the full article

Niall McLaughlin Architects has refurbished a prayer room at a priory in Dublin, placing walls and furniture made from solid ash wood inside the existing space. Read more View the full article

Jonathan Hendry Architects has built a beach hut clad in red-stained timber on top of an old toilet block in the English seaside town of Sandilands. Read more View the full article

When transforming this skinny Tel Aviv apartment into a family holiday home, Yael Perry opted for bright white colour palette to make the space seem bigger. Read more View the full article

Dezeen has teamed up with Tokyobike and Ally Capellino to give one reader a limited-edition bike and a rucksack. Read more View the full article

Basketball fans will soon be able to get the latest news and scores from their favourite teams by simply tapping their phone against Nike's new NBA jerseys. Read more View the full article

A slide and bright yellow ladder are among the playful interventions employed by Alter & Company in its modernisation of a farm in Surrey, England. Read more View the full article

In this competition, Dezeen is giving away a Sonos smart speaker that plays, pauses and changes music in response to voice commands. Read more View the full article

South African firm SAOTA has completed its first project in Los Angeles, which involved converting a 1970s Spanish-style residence into a more minimal dwelling. Read more View the full article