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Light projected through a soap bubble throws patterns generated by the tiny vibrations of a speaker onto the ceiling in this installation by Royal College of Art graduate Dagny Rewera (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Opinion: in response to Joseph Rykwert's Royal Gold Medal lecture this week, where the critic stressed that all design has political implications, Kieran Long rejects Zaha Hadid's assertion that architects have "nothing to do with the workers" who die on construction sites. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Guide: design events taking place in March include festivals in Iceland (pictured), Mexico and Costa Rica, plus thirteen more in our update this month. (more...) View the full article

This week Zaha Hadid denied responsibility for migrants working on her stadium in Qatar, while her aquatics centre for the London 2012 Olympics (pictured) is set to open to the public. More architecture and design from the past seven days follows, plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Giant sheepskins, crumpled metallic leather and plastic sheets adorned models at fashion designer Gareth Pugh's Autumn Winter 2014 show during Paris Fashion Week. (more...) View the full article

French firm Dominique Perrault Architecture has completed a 220-metre skyscraper with a folded glass facade in Vienna, which has now become Austria's tallest building. (more...) View the full article

News: the Oscars has been given a new logo and visual identity ahead of this Sunday's awards ceremony in Los Angeles. (more...) View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for an assistant furniture designer at Paul Smith, whose furnishings for Maggie's Centre in Nottingham are pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Artist Tobias Rehberger has taken over a gallery in his home city of Frankfurt with black and white graphics that play tricks on the eye (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Berlin studio J. Mayer H. has designed a temporary pavilion comprising a wonky grid of criss-crossing timber beams to celebrate the 300th year of German city Karlsruhe (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to attend panel discussions, organised by London's Sir John Soane's Museum in conjunction with an exhibition of 3D-printed versions of prints by Italian artist Piranesi. (more...) View the full article

A portable router designed to bring constant internet connectivity to tough locations in Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond was presented at the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town this week. (more...) View the full article

Japanese studio Nendo has dressed up these wooden tables for Walt Disney Japan to look like characters from children's story books Winnie-the-Pooh. (more...) View the full article

Concrete block walls with window-like apertures surround a courtyard at the front of this Melbourne house by local practice MRTN Architects, which also features an angular wooden roof (+slideshow). (more...) View the full article

British designer Samuel Wilkinson has created a range of lightweight aluminium furniture (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: NASA is developing robots made from a tensile system of interlocking rods and cables that can transform from flat components into a ball shape then tense and flex to roll around the surface of planets. (more...) View the full article

ECAL student Renaud Defrancesco has designed a transparent acrylic glass headband that passes music vibrations across its surface to the ears. (more...) View the full article

A skin of chestnut shingles covers the facade of this multipurpose building at a school in the French town of Hostens by Dauphins (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: alternatives to the current United Kingdom flag presented by a national flag charity have provoked a debate about whether a new design should be commissioned if Scotland chooses independence in its upcoming referendum. (more...) View the full article

The shortlist of architects to resurrect Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace exhibition hall leads this week's Dezeen Mail newsletter, which also includes the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 191 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Shimmering golden panels clad the monumental folded ceilings of this new airport terminal in St Petersburg designed by London studio Grimshaw (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Here are some wintery views of the new spotty stadium for Belarusian football club FC BATE Borisov designed by Slovenian firm OFIS Arhitekti, which is nearing completion and looks set to open later this year (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A wood and steel chair created by Danish Modernist designer Hans J. Wegner in 1955 has been put into production for the first time by furniture brand Carl Hansen & Son. (more...) View the full article

News: British designer Thomas Heatherwick has unveiled plans to create a new art gallery at the V&A Waterfront museum in Cape Town by hollowing out sections of a grain silo complex. (more...) View the full article

Silicon details and latex panels featured in Royal College of Art graduate Xiao Li's first London Fashion Week show. (more...) View the full article