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Danish firm BIG has released visuals for a new baseball stadium in Oakland, California, and a separate masterplan to redevelop the city's Coliseum sports ground. Read more

Bergen Academy of Art and Design student Hedda Torgersen designed this desk lamp to look like a "long-legged character". (more...) View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers are impressed with Lego's take on the Cybertruck, but skeptical about a chair made from a cardboard box. Read more View the full article

Here's a selection of our favourite Christmas cards and movies we've received this year, including a collapsible model snow globe from architecture firm Aedas (pictured). (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2016: co-director of Universal Assembly Unit Samantha Lee unveils the digital art studio's interactive sculpture for London Design Festival in this exclusive movie Dezeen produced for Italian lighting brand iGuzzini. (more…) View the full article

Iranian studio Next Office has completed a house in Tehran that splits in the middle to create two curvy wings (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This grenade-shaped scent diffuser has been designed to alert internet users of data leaks from their smartphones, tablets and computers. Read more View the full article

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have built a flying robot that can guide people around complex urban environments or aid search-and-rescue missions, in an attempt to show that drones can perform useful tasks as well as sinister ones (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Priced out of further education, British design graduate Stacie Woolsey approached designers to help her create her own masters course. Speaking to Dezeen, she says elitism is a problem the industry urgently needs to address. Read more

Imagine the vistas you could take in from these examples of skywalks and viewing platforms, which we've pinned onto a new Pinterest board. See our new Pinterest board » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See all our stories on viewing platforms View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: sharing technologies like Uber and Airbnb could offer the answer to the UK housing crisis say the curators of the British Pavilion, who have unveiled five futuristic models of the home. (more…) View the full article

Pampers has partnered with health software platform Verily, a sister company of Google, to create nappies that tell parents when their baby's nappy needs changing as well as monitoring their sleep patterns. Read more

Fold-down desks and mobile workstations allow Australian firm Particular Architects to regularly reconfigure the layout of their studio space in Melbourne (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: Austrian design collective Mostlikely has created a set of posters that can be cut up and folded into lampshades shaped like cartoon animal heads. (more...) View the full article

Brazilian studio Pascali Smerdjian Arquitetos has overhauled a São Paulo apartment inside a 1960s building, adding in a semi-circular wooden library to house the owner's extensive book collection. Read more

Walkways that twist through treetops, zigzag along mountain paths and climb skywards feature on our new Pinterest board. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more walkways in our archive View the full article

The Dezeen Awards 2019 architecture shortlist has been announced. It includes a cultural centre that doubles as public seating in Iran, a house in England made from recycled cork, and a thatched restaurant overlooking Peru's Sacred Valley. Read more

Dezeen promotion: architects are being invited to design a new waterfront memorial building commemorating the founding of independent Singapore. Read more

Japanese architect Makoto Suzuki has designed his own live-work space as a series of interlocking timber-clad buildings near Sapporo on Hokkaido island. Read more View the full article

News: architect Santiago Calatrava is facing legal action from his home city of Valencia because parts of the opera house roof at his City of Arts and Sciences complex are falling off just eight years after completion. (more...) View the full article

Industrial designer Ron Arad has created a set of vases that slot inside one another, just like a nest of tables, for glass brand Nude. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: ten Dezeen readers can receive a 25% discount when booking their place for this year's Global Design Forum, taking place on 16 and 17 September in London. (more...) View the full article

Every table, chair, lamp and light switch in this furniture collection by Italian designer Loredana Bonora is covered in crocheted yarns of cotton, PVC, plastic tape and even washing lines. (more…) View the full article

The American Institute of Architects has launched a task force to consult on how to adapt buildings into healthcare facilities during the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

Stone bleachers climb onto the roof of this cultural centre in Molde, Norway, by Danish architects 3XN, creating open-air seating for visitors to the jazz festival hosted there each year (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article