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Product news: Dutch designer Arian Brekveld based the design of this lounge chair on the shapes of seats in cars. (more...) View the full article

Austrian bicycle design studio Vello claims to have created the first bike to combine electric, self-charging and folding features. Read more View the full article

Photo essay: 70 years after the second world war ended, there are still over 6,000 defensive structures along Britain's coastline. Photographer Richard Brine has been documenting them (+ slideshow). (more…)

US studio Duvall Decker Architects has created a residence in central Mississippi that is "shaped to draw the outdoors in and lure the family out" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The lower level of The Met Breuer museum in New York now houses a space for visitors to dine and drink in the surrounds of the brutalist-style building. Read more View the full article

Wall panels and shelves in this north London design shop are made from reclaimed floorboards and scaffolding planks. (more…) View the full article

The latest issue of Dezeen Mail leads with the popular yet controversial Olympic Cauldron by Thomas Heatherwick (above) plus new jobs, competitions and music. Read Dezeen Mail issue 112 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

This week on Dezeen we published a flying car, a drone designed to help save lives and a 3D printer hacked to create a tattooing robot (pictured). Read on for more architecture and design highlights, plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

The Cell Furniture project sees product design students at London's Central Saint Martins create flexible furniture for prisons, which will be made by the inmates. Read more

Sportswear brand Nike has unveiled a pair of self-lacing trainers that automatically adjust to your foot when you put them on. (more…) View the full article

This metal-framed extension to a clapboard house near Melbourne was left intentionally incomplete by architect Andrew Maynard to show off the "beautiful skeleton" of an unfinished building (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Designer Gerry Judah has created this white knotted sculpture of a race track for car brand Lotus at Goodwood Festival of Speed, which took place in West Sussex last weekend. (more…) View the full article

Dutch architects MVRDV have proposed extending the city of Almere into a lake by building a square-shaped artificial peninsula covered in gardens (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Chunky chipboard surfaces have been sanded and stained to look like marble at this Aesop skincare shop in Tokyo by Japanese studio Torafu Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week's Dezeen Mail includes monks levitating over a Mailītis Architects-designed wind tunnel in China and a performance-tracking smart condom. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail › View the full article

Laminated wood and concrete will form the hybrid structural system of the high-rise Canada's Earth Tower that global firm Perkins+Will has unveiled for British Columbia. Read more

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Specialized, Wilkinson Eyre Architects and IDEO, whose concept tricycle that purifies water as the rider pedals is pictured. Plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Foster + Partners, UNstudio, Martha Schwartz Partners and more... (more...) View the full article

Chinese architecture studio Wutopia Lab painted a pair of houses pink and blue, filling one with meat and the other with flowers, to explore constructs around gender and food for an architecture biennale in Shenzhen. Read more View the full article

Architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro have proposed a medical education centre at New York’s Columbia University that appears to have had its skin peeled away from its skeleton. (more…) View the full article

Interview: in this exclusive interview designer Tom Dixon tells us why he decided to design his first watch - and how he wanted to make it easy to read the time (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Private members club Soho House is considering expanding into the fast-growing co-living market, according to founder Nick Jones. (more…) View the full article

Fashion designer Raf Simons has created two upholstery fabrics, Helia and Silas, for Danish textile company Kvadrat. Read more View the full article

We’ve got a another track with a twist for you on Dezeen Music Project today. Teardream by Kid Suda starts off with a simple but catchy looped piano chord sequence, before a screaming electric guitar riff kicks in half way through. If you like what you hear, you can keep up to date with all of Kid Suda’s latest tracks and other goings-on here. About Dezeen Music Project | More tracks | Submit your track View the full article

News: the Sainsbury Laboratory by Stanton Williams has been awarded the 2012 RIBA Stirling Prize for the most significant contribution to British architecture this year. (more…) View the full article

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Meier is leaving his eponymous firm to be spearheaded by new management, following the accusations of sexual harassment made against him earlier this year. Read more View the full article