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Design collective Vík Prjónsdóttir has launched two Icelandic wool blankets shaped to look like the wings of a swan and an eider duck as part of a range of avian-influenced covers. (more...) View the full article

Following the popularity of David Chipperfield's office building in China featuring a copper facade, we've collected together all the best copper-based projects from the pages of Dezeen and pinned them to a new Pinterest board » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more copper projects View the full article

The consecutive pitched roofs of this church community centre in Germany were designed by Netzwerkarchitekten to make the building resemble a row of terraced houses. (more...) View the full article

Spanish studio MUT Design has created modular kitchen units from materials commonly found elsewhere in the home. (more...) View the full article

Industrial pipework runs over the ceiling of this juice-bar by London office Jump Studios, which features a ceramic herringbone floor and a marble counter. (more...) View the full article

Dormer windows rise above the red brick facade of the only modern building on a historic Utrecht street, designed by local office Dreessen Willemse Architecten to house a shop and student residences (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week we reported on Thomas Heatherwick's proposal for a floating island park in New York (pictured), Herzog & de Meuron's controversial skyscraper in Paris and an inflatable baby incubator that "could save thousands of lives". Read on for more architecture and design highlights, plus our music track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Maxime Mellot has integrated a birdcage, a fish tank and a plant pot into this desk to encourage users "to look at natural elements". (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Book of Interviews: in this interview from our latest book, influential graphic designer Neville Brody discusses the impact of London's punk movement on his work. (more...) View the full article

Modern furniture and fittings are paired with stone walls and exposed roof trusses inside this old Spanish farm that Dom Arquitectura has transformed into a residence and guest house (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: more than half of employees prefer a private work space, while open-plan office workers often experience too many distractions to work effectively, according to new data. (more...) View the full article

The fragmented gables that make up this children's centre by Danish studio CEBRA feature matching dormer windows that in some places have been extruded, inverted or turned upside down (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A grid of muted copper frames the large windows of this slender office building, designed by British architect David Chipperfield for a park-side site in Hangzhou, China (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: a team from Mexico City has won this year's Audi Urban Future award with a scheme that collects location data from commuters to identify problems in the city's congested road network (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A team of researchers has completed a working prototype for a drone made from a fungal material that will biodegrade if it crashes outdoors. (more...) View the full article

Greek office Kapsimalis Architects has renovated a small white house on the cliffs of a Greek island, adding two roof terraces with plunge pools, and a third and more sizeable swimming pool in the basement (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Opinion: when the team behind the Rosetta space mission landed Philae on a moving comet last week, they celebrated in a grey control room – the kind of uniquely bland space that has been the backdrop to some of the 21st century's most iconic moments, says Will Wiles. (more...) View the full article

Frank Gehry's first completed building in Australia, Herzog & de Meuron's controversial skyscraper for Paris (pictured), and a folding electric bike that can be carried in a backpack feature in Dezeen Mail issue 229. Click through for all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 229 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Movie: in the last of our series of exclusive video interviews for Moroso, London design duo Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay of Raw Edges explain what's special about working with the Italian furniture brand. (more...) View the full article

This concrete oval, designed by Parisian architect Philippe Prost to be "the colour of war", stretches out across the site of one of the world's largest French military cemeteries to commemorate the centenary of the First World War (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Inside Festival 2014: architect and professor Sawako Kaijima explains how she created a research and gallery space with "completely diffused lighting" in our next exclusive movie from this year's Inside Festival. (more...) View the full article

News: construction has started in Chengdu, China, on a 468-metre-high crystalline skyscraper by the architects behind the current and future tallest buildings in the world. (more...) View the full article

Not content with releasing one umbrella this month, Japanese studio Nendo has created a lightweight folding umbrella with a carbon-fibre frame and a cover tucked into its handle. (more...) View the full article

The products on sale in this monochrome design shop by Dutch interiors studio i29 are concealed behind a fragmented sequence of signage panels that create an optical illusion (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A screen of hollow concrete bricks provides privacy for students using this shower and changing facility at a Shanghai technical college (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article