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Studio Weave has designed a new roof terrace for London College of Fashion's gallery space, adding brightly coloured decking and seats. (more...) View the full article

This clothes rack by German designer Meike Langer features a copper arc with a hinged timber frame, allowing it to slot into the corner of a room. (more...) View the full article

Australian firm BVN Donovan Hill has completed a plant research facility in New South Wales offering laboratories and archive facilities dedicated to the preservation of indigenous seeds (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This project by Brazilian photographer Leonardo Finotti examines the architecture and social impact of stadiums that will host matches during the FIFA 2014 World Cup in Brazil, which kicks off this evening in São Paulo (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: Minsuk Cho of Mass Studies says he hopes Korea's Venice Architecture Biennale pavilion will help North and South Koreans reconnect in this movie filmed shortly after he collected the Golden Lion award for best pavilion. (more...) View the full article

Yves Behar has designed a smart cup called Vessyl, which detects what you're drinking and displays its nutritional contents in real time. (more...) View the full article

Zaha Hadid's concrete university building in Beirut, an apartment with a rooftop swimming pool, and Dezeen columnist Kieran Long's reaction to the Venice Architecture Biennale feature in this week's Dezeen Mail newsletter. Read on for the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 206 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Opinion: by excluding architects and focusing on research for this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, Rem Koolhaas has given the world an insight into what he thinks about architecture. The result is less than encouraging, says Kieran Long. (more...) View the full article

News: Finnish furniture brand Artek has appointed former Design Miami director Marianne Goebl as its new managing director. (more...) View the full article

Visitors can stroll through free-standing wooden frames in this pavilion that IPT Architects has installed outside the V&A Museum of Childhood in east London. (more...) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: the late English architect Cedric Price is "one of the most important figures in all disciplines in the 20th century" and comparable to Marcel Duchamp in terms of his influence, according to curator Hans Ulrich Obrist (+ interview + slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: engineering firm Arup has produced prototype 3D-printed steel construction joints that could be used to create more efficient structures. (more...) View the full article

News: US technology firm Honeywell has released a minimal smart thermostat that learns household routines, a rival to Nest's similar connected home product. (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with UK studio Chisel & Mouse to give readers the chance to win a miniature architectural sculpture from their collection. (more...) View the full article

Dutch studio MVRDV has transformed a neoclassical chapel into the main entrance for a museum of modern art in Schiedam, the Netherlands, adding bright red shelves between the listed building's existing features (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: London designer Keiichi Matsuda explains how augmented reality could transform the way we navigate the city in the first of our video interviews with designers participating in our Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition. (more...) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: Chile's Silver Lion-winning pavilion at the biennale centres around a prefabricated concrete wall that is closely tied to both the country's political history and its 20th century housing stock (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Austrian studio chmara.rosinke created this Japanese-influenced daybed with rotating textile screens as a place to retreat and think, for a design competition run by fashion house Hermès (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Bedaux de Brouwer Architecten sourced locally produced bricks for the walls of this house in the Dutch countryside, but also installed a large glazed wall to offer views of the picturesque landscape (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Webbed fabric is stretched over crossed wire hoops to form these cocoon-like pendant lamps by New York studio Rich Brilliant Willing. (more...) View the full article

Zaha Hadid has completed a top-heavy building for the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, which cantilevers out over a public courtyard and a series of elevated pathways (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Icelandic studio Hlutagerðin has designed this leather and lambskin armour to keep teapots warm and protect tablets from coffee table scrapes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architecture students Angus Ritchie and Daniel Tyler have designed and built a mirrored lookout point in a Scottish national park that both frames and reflects views of the surrounding lochs and glens (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: curator Rem Koolhaas has used the biennale to announce the end of his "hegemony" over the profession, according to architect Peter Eisenman (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2o14: the curators of the Belgian Pavilion visited 260 homes around the country, using their findings to produce a minimal recreation of common domestic architecture within their Venice biennale exhibition (+ slideshow + interview). (more...) View the full article