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Opinion: it's time for designers to start thinking more like businesspeople, says Bradford Shellhammer, creator of new design e-commerce site Bezar and co-founder of Fab. (more…) View the full article

US studio Hollwich Kushner has transformed an old paint factory into the Pennovation Center, which contains labs, co-working areas and social spaces for entrepreneurs and researchers. Read more View the full article

A bank of cherry blossoms are mirrored in the reflective gables of this cafe that angles around a smaller tree in Gifu, Japan, by architecture studio Bandesign (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: circles are used through the design of Australian brand AÃRK's latest watch collection. (more…) View the full article

Chilean firm Pezo Von Ellrichshausen and Nigeria-based Kunlé Adeyemi are among the architects collaborating with Chicago design schools to create lakefront kiosks for the city's first design biennial. (more…) View the full article

News: Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde has developed an "electronic vacuum cleaner" that can remove smog from urban skies and is working with the mayor of Beijing to use the technology in a new park in the city (+ interview + movie). (more...) View the full article

Our job of the week is a position for a graphic designer at London firm Wilkinson Eyre Architects, winner of the World Building of the Year Award last month with their Gardens By the Bay tropical gardens in Singapore (shown above). Visit the ad for full details or browse many other architecture and design job opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Students from the Piet Zwart Institute created a series of interactive objects exploring sound in a domestic context for their Instruments Reimaging the Music Room exhibition in Milan last month (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Crumpled sheets of metal appear to float inside or wrap around the low tables in a collection by design studio Fredrikson Stallard currently on show at the new David Gill Gallery in London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Today’s window in our A-Zdvent calendar of houses named after letters of the alphabet is B House, a hillside cabin in Japan that generates all its own energy and heating designed by San Francisco firm Anderson Anderson Architecture. Read more about B House » View the full article

Childcare subscription app Brella has opened its first space in Los Angeles, comprising play areas, a co-working space and a yoga studio. Read more View the full article

A glazed panel in the base of this cantilevered swimming pool by architecture studio NOA gives bathers dramatic views of the South Tyrolean Dolomites. Read more View the full article

Spanish architecture studio BCQ has revealed its plans to enhance a Barcelona bridge, adding pollution-dissolving concrete, planted walls and paving that glows in the dark. (more…)

Japanese architect Tadao Ando has inserted a sweeping concrete wall into the new Milan store of fashion brand Duvetica. (more...) View the full article

Sonia Norskog is an interior architect at Hacker Architects in Portland, which specialises in the residential, educational and cultural sectors. She explains her career progression for the Dezeen Jobs careers guide. Read more

Visitors can play in the rain without getting wet in this installation by interactive designers rAndom International at the Barbican in London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Since publishing a residential extension in Italy by architects Plasma Studio earlier this month, we've picked another faceted house from the studio's archives located in the same South Tyrollean village. (more...) View the full article

This bone-like tower of concrete by Swiss studio Christ & Gantenbein is one of nine architectural interventions along La Ruta del Peregrino, a 72-mile pilgrimage through the mountain landscape of Jalisco, Mexico (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: a prosthetic hand designed for people with missing fingers has been made available to download from the 3D-printing design database Thingiverse (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

The 30,000-capacity Kosovo National Stadium, which will be located in Drenas, will become the new home for the Kosovo national football team. Read more

This week Dezeen travelled to New York, where Adidas was launching its latest running shoe, and featured photographs documenting mid-century residential architecture in New Zealand (pictured). Read on to catch up with the latest architecture and design news, plus our track of the week. (more…) View the full article

British architecture magazines the Architects' Journal and the Architectural Review are set to end their print editions and will move to digital only in the next 18 months. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival 2016: the frame of this simple chair by designer Samuel Wilkinson is made using the traditional technique of steam-bending wood (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A book-lined room is concealed behind secret doors in this 17th-century barn conversion carried out by Studio Seilern Architects at an estate in Oxfordshire, England (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A century-old house in north London has been overhauled by Richard Parr Architects, to create a home for the founder of cycling brand Rapha and his family. Read more View the full article