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This week, Dezeen reported on the world's blackest black material engineered by MIT, and the record-breaking Central Park Tower topped out in New York. Read more

German studio Tammo Prinz Architects has developed a concept for a residential skyscraper built from a stack of modular cubes and dodecahedrons (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Traditional Swedish barns provided the inspiration for this red-hued wooden cabin, designed by Gothenburg studio Bornstein Lyckefors Architects for a keen sailor and his two children. Read more View the full article

Herzog & de Meuron has released further imagery of its curving, stone-clad National Library of Israel, which is now under construction and scheduled to complete in 2020 (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living series features a concept for a modular housing system that allows residents to easily add extra rooms around the outside of their homes. Read more

A robotically woven carbon-fibre pavilion based on the lightweight shell encasing the wings and abdomen of a beetle is the second structure revealed this week from the team of architects and engineers at the University of Stuttgart (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

A reading room with a daybed and porthole window is built into the living room of Pointing House, a one-bedroom apartment in Rome designed by Studio Strato. Read more View the full article

Dutch footwear brand United Nude, headed by architect Rem D Koolhaas, and model Shaun Ross have designed a heeled boot "with no particular individual in mind." Read more

There are 88 ancient Buddhist temples along the 670-mile Shikoku Pilgrimage in Japan – but only one lucky priest has a new house by Tokyo studio Zai Shirakawa Architects & Associates. (more…) View the full article

News: on the eve of a major exhibition about his life, architect Richard Rogers has spoken of how architecture's civic responsibility has been eroded in "an age of greed". (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: designer Tom Dixon presented a collection of pendant and table lights that combine geometric brass-plated planes with spherical glass shades in Milan last week. (more...) View the full article

Design studio Doone Silver Kerr turned a stack of used shipping containers into a hotel and wine bar with a geometric facade of welded fins that function as sunshades. Read more View the full article

The governor of Illinois has announced plans to sell Helmut Jahn's James R Thompson Center in Chicago – a move that could lead to the demolition of the Postmodern government office building. (more…) View the full article

This week's Dezeen Mail includes a 13-metre-square London micro home filled with sliding plywood furniture and Diébédo Francis Kéré's tree-inspired design for the Serpentine Pavilion. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail › View the full article

A secluded balcony surrounded by timber protrudes from the clean white facade of this house in Osaka, Japan, by architect Ido Kenji (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: six buildings have been shortlisted for this year's Stirling Prize, including the overhaul of Sheffield's notorious Park Hill housing estate (above), an elliptical chapel and a museum that mimics volcanic formations. (more...) View the full article

Danish ceramic artist Malene Hartmann Rasmussen has photographed dozens of glazed ceramic worms to create a wallpaper for the home of 19th century Arts & Crafts designer William Morris. (more...) View the full article

In this week's comment update, seats designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and Oksana Bondar divided readers' opinions. Read more View the full article

Renzo Piano Building Workshop has designed a light-filled neuroscience research facility at Columbia University's new campus in Upper Manhattan. Read more View the full article

With New York's 12-day-long festival NYCxDesign now over, US editor Eleanor Gibson picks out the emerging American designers and studios that stood out. Read more

Danish studio Space Copenhagen has created bespoke furniture using stone, wood and leather to complement its interiors for this hotel in Manhattan's SoHo district (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dutch studio MVRDV has transformed the facade of an ageing mixed-use building into a stack of shop windows in Gangnam, the trendy district of Seoul described in the world-famous Korean pop song. (more...) View the full article

Product news: Swedish design consultancy Veryday picked up a Gold Award at the iF Design Awards last week for this wooden chair created for an art and design centre in Stockholm. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Music Project: designers Masashi Kawamura and Kota Iguchi made all the animations in this music video for Japanese band SOUR's single Music Is Life using rotating compact discs. (more...) View the full article

Dutch designer Marcel Wanders discusses how he overcame the challenges of using LED technology in his new lamp for Moooi and defends the high cost of design products in this movie Dezeen filmed in Milan. (more...) View the full article