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Competition: Dezeen is giving one reader the chance to win a copy of an Ettore Sottsass monograph and a pair of tickets to a talk at London's Design Museum about the designer's life and work. (more...) View the full article

News: Google has revealed footage of a self-driving vehicle with no steering wheel or pedals, announcing that it expects to roll out its first pilot scheme on public roads in "the next couple of years". (more...) View the full article

News: the Scottish Government is working with the Glasgow School of Art to provide support for students who were handing in their final projects at the Mackintosh-designed building when it caught fire last Friday. (more...) View the full article

South Korean designer Il Hoon Roh has created a chair by intertwining carbon fibre strings into a pattern designed to resemble the branches of trees (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Rows of disused railway sleepers slide open to reveal the ground floor of this copper coloured house in Portugal by Atelier Data (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese firm International Royal Architecture (IRA) minimised partitions and balustrades inside this split-level house in Tokyo to make the interior feel as spacious as possible (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Massimo Vignelli – the prolific Modernist designer who created New York's subway signage and the American Airlines identity – has died in New York. (more...) View the full article

Brightly-coloured patterned ceramic tiles line the walls, floor and stairs of this South American restaurant in Copenhagen, designed by Danish studios BIG and Kilo Design (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch firm UNStudio has created a cluster of pavilions modelled on the form of a Chinese flower, as the centrepiece for this summer's horticultural expo in Qingdao, China (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Berliners have voted against the development of the former Tempelhof airport site, securing its future as a public park. (more...) View the full article

Japanese studio Nendo has designed a collection of furniture and homeware for Danish brand BoConcept, which includes a seat that appears to hug itself and accessories with patterns based on origami. (more...) View the full article

News: Italian design brands lack the innovation and marketing flair of their northern European rivals, according to the head of new Milan-based furniture brand Discipline. (more...) View the full article

A pulley system extending through the atrium of this house in Sydney, Australia, by local architects Tribe Studio, is designed so the owners can store bicycles and winch them out of view (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Threads of silk fine enough to be mistaken for strands of hair form the upper of these shoes by German designers Nicole Goymann and Christoph John. (more...) View the full article

Billowing curves sweep across the concrete facade and continue inside this house near Tehran, designed by Iranian studio Next Office (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New York 2014: to celebrate New York design week, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum commissioned designer Joe Doucet to create a limited edition collection of "snap fit" marble tables. (more...) View the full article

BMW's MINI brand has teamed up with Italian bespoke sports-car design company Touring Superleggera to create the MINI Superleggera Vision (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Feature: the warmth of brass has made it "metal of choice" for today's designers, who showed products in the material on both sides of the Atlantic this month, finds Dezeen style editor Dan Howarth. (more...) View the full article

A temporary structure in London designed to recreate the humidity of a rainforest was popular last week, so we've created a new Pinterest board that collects together examples of unique pavilions from around the world. See our new Pinterest board » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See all our stories on pavilions View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Powerhouse Company, Foster + Partners and Aesop, whose retail space in Sydney is pictured. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Alison Brooks Architects, PearsonLloyd, ACME and more... (more...) View the full article

News: every electrical device in the home will be linked to the internet within a decade, according to the CEO of connected home products brand Nest (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

This house in the Australian desert by Dunn & Hillam Architects hunkers down into the earth and features a large angled roof to protect it from extreme temperature fluctuations (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Catalan designer Eugeni Quitllet has used plexiglass to create the backrests for wooden chairs in this collection for Italian brand Alias. (more...) View the full article

A huge folding wall lifts up to reveal the contents of a weathered steel auditorium at this abandoned printing factory in Beijing, which Chinese studio Origin Architect has converted into a theatre complex (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London-based Samuel Wilkinson Studio has designed an office space to house a business incubator, featuring fixed furniture and leafy embellishments (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article