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Following Shigeru Ban's Pritzker Prize win, we've collected together his best-known projects from the pages of Dezeen. See our new Pinterest board» Follow Dezeen on Pinterest» View the full article

Chris Dyson Architects has added a soot-washed brick extension with a curved wall to a Georgian terraced house and former nunnery in east London (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: Dutch designer Richard Hutten will launch a multicoloured chair made from 545 stacked layers of Kvadrat's fabric in Milan next month. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Music Project: water becomes the main character in this black and white music video created by director Albert Sala for John Matthias's Spreadsheet Blues. (more...) View the full article

Charred cedar clads the walls of this house in Aichi, Japan, by architecture studio MDS, while exposed wooden beams create a rack-like effect on the underside of the diagonally slanted roof. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: British fashion designer Paul Smith has applied his iconic striped fabrics to a selection of furniture by legendary Danish designer Hans J. Wegner, which will be presented in Milan next month. (more...) View the full article

Each piece in the Folk candle holder range is different but shares the same characteristics, creating a family of objects which work together or individually (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News dominated this week as Shigeru Ban was awarded the Pritzker Prize, Facebook invested $2 billion in virtual reality, and Marc Newson described the design industry as "really pathetic". Read on for more architecture and design news from the past seven days, plus our Dezeen Music Project featured track. (more...) View the full article

Pathways slice through the grounds of this hotel and health farm in Portugal's Penafiel region, leading to the entrances of partly submerged buildings designed by Porto firm AND-RÉ (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Shigeru Ban's design for an art gallery opening this summer in Aspen, Colorado, has been demonstrated by a new architectural model, following news that the Japanese architect will receive this year's Pritzker Prize (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: the intricate embroidery of this rug collection, by London studio Doshi Levien for Spanish rug maker Nanimarquina, combines traditional techniques with spontaneous compositions (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This barstool designed by Aurélien Barbry allows people of different heights to sit comfortably thanks to footrests positioned at various heights. (more...) View the full article

Our next interactive slideshow features the most recent products by Nordic architects and designers for Danish brand Muuto. (more...) View the full article

Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates built this unusually skinny house on a three-metre-wide site in a residential district of Aichi Prefecture, Japan (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Selfridges has collaborated with mobile phone company HTC to create a temporary 1,700 square metre skatepark replete with ramps, rails, benches and banks, in the middle of London's West End. (more...) View the full article

A new type of hospital door handle by British studio Agency of Design transforms a hotbed for germs into a sanitising device, with a sensor that monitors how often it is used. (more...) View the full article

The three pitched roofs of this bungalow extension in Manchester were designed by Blee Halligan Architects to capture sunlight at different times of the day and frame views of trees in the garden (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: British designer Bethan Gray will exhibit a set of monochrome marble tableware in Milan next month. (more...) View the full article

This movie by Mexican film agency Nation tours the school of art, design and architecture that Japanese architect Tadao Ando completed last year at the University of Monterrey in Mexico. (more...) View the full article

Architect Elia Nedkov paired exposed concrete with clean white displays for the interior of this shoe shop in the historical centre of Sofia, Bulgaria. (more...) View the full article

Opinion: a 1960s institution in Mexico that gives visitors space and time to wander is a stark contrast to the commodified museum experience that has become the norm, says Alexandra Lange. (more...) View the full article

This week's Dezeen Mail includes Zaha Hadid's Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul (pictured) and Shigeru Ban's Pritzker Prize win, along with the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 195 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

A suspended steel staircase is completed by a piece of wooden furniture in this renovated Oslo loft by London studio Haptic (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

British firm John McAslan + Partners has converted a stone barn into a library and added a contrasting stained timber extension, as part of its redevelopment of a university campus in Cumbria, England (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with the Future Everything conference to give two readers the chance to win a guest-list pass for two days of talks and lectures in Manchester next week. (more...) View the full article